Tadeusz Michalik (born 16 February 1991) is a Polish
Greco-Roman wrestler
Greco-Roman (American English), Graeco-Roman (British English), classic wrestling ( Euro English) or French wrestling (in Russia until 1948) is a style of wrestling that is practiced worldwide. Greco-Roman wrestling was included in the first mo ...
. He represented
Poland at the 2020 Summer Olympics in
Tokyo
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, winning a bronze medal in the
men's Greco-Roman 97 kg event.
He competed in the
97kg event at the
2022 World Wrestling Championships
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The UWW Bureau approved the candidature of Belgrade, Serbia ...
held in Belgrade, Serbia.
Personal life
His older sister
Monika Michalik
Monika Ewa Michalik (Polish pronunciation: ; born 2 May 1980 in Międzyrzecz) is a freestyle wrestler from Poland. She participated in Women's freestyle 63 kg at 2008 Summer Olympics. In the last 16, she beat Volha Khilko from Belarus. In the qu ...
won a bronze medal in
Freestyle wrestling
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at the
2016 Summer Olympics
The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...
.
References
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1991 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Poznań
Polish male sport wrestlers
Olympic wrestlers of Poland
Wrestlers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic medalists in wrestling
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Poland
20th-century Polish people
21st-century Polish people
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