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Ryszard Katus (born March 29, 1947) is a Polish athlete, who competed mainly in the men's decathlon event during his career.
Katus was born in Boska Wola. He competed for Poland at the
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1947 births Polish decathletes Olympic bronze medalists for Poland Athletes (track and field) at the 1972 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Poland Living people People from Białobrzegi County Athletes from Masovian Voivodeship Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field) Polish masters athletes Polish Athletics Championships winners {{Poland-Olympic-medalist-stub
Ryszard Katus (born March 29, 1947) is a Polish athlete, who competed mainly in the men's decathlon event during his career.
Katus was born in Boska Wola. He competed for Poland at the 1972 Summer Olympics
The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munich 1972 (german: München 1972), was an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. ...
held in Munich
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, Germany
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, where he won the bronze medal in the men's decathlon event.
He later came to the United States
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and competed in Masters athletics
Masters athletics is a class of the sport of athletics for athletes of over 35 years of age. The events include track and field, road running and cross country running. Competitors are bracketed into five-year age groups (which promotes fair comp ...
under the name Richard Katus.http://www.mastershistory.org/indoor/1989may.pdf 1989 Sportcade
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1947 births Polish decathletes Olympic bronze medalists for Poland Athletes (track and field) at the 1972 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Poland Living people People from Białobrzegi County Athletes from Masovian Voivodeship Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field) Polish masters athletes Polish Athletics Championships winners {{Poland-Olympic-medalist-stub