Tomasz Goliasz (born July 6, 1968) is a Polish

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who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. He won two medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (C-2 500 m:

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) and a bronze (

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). Goliasz also finished fifth in the C-2 1000 m semifinal at the

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in Atlanta, but did not advance to the final.

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1968 births Canoeists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Living people Olympic canoeists of Poland Polish male canoeists People from Wałcz ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian Sportspeople from West Pomeranian Voivodeship {{Poland-canoe-bio-stub