Theodore "Ted" Boronovskis (born 27 July 1943) is an Australian
judoka
is an unarmed modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyclopedia Nipponica, "Judo"). ...
who won a bronze medal at the
1964 Summer Olympics
The , officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 ( ja, 東京1964), were an international multi-sport event held from 10 to 24 October 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo had been awarded the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this ho ...
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sports-reference This was Australia's only Olympic medal in judo until 2000.
Judo made its Olympic debut in
1964
Events January
* January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved.
* January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ...
, and Boronovskis was Australia's only judo representative, competing in the
open division (unlimited weight). He won his first two matches, but then lost to the eventual gold medalist,
Anton Geesink
Antonius Johannes Geesink (6 April 1934 – 27 August 2010) was a Dutch people, Dutch List of judoka#Highest grades, 10th dan judoka. He was the first non-Japanese judoka to win gold at the World Judo Championship, a feat he accomplished in 1961 ...
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1943 births
Living people
Judoka at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Australian male judoka
Olympic judoka for Australia
Olympic bronze medalists for Australia
Olympic medalists in judo
Australian people of Latvian descent
Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Latvian emigrants to Australia
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