Wiesław Gawłowski
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Wiesław Stanisław Gawłowski (19 May 1950 – 14 November 2000) was a Polish
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player and coach. He was a member of the Polish national volleyball team. With the national team, he won gold medals in the 1974 World Championship and the
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Personal life

Wiesław Gawłowski was born in Tomaszów Mazowiecki,
Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...
. He attended the University of Physical Education in
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, graduating in 1974. He had a wife, Barbara, and two sons, Maciej and Wojciech.


Honours


Club

* CEV European Champions Cup ** 1977–78 – with
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* Domestic ** 1976–77 Polish Championship, with Płomień Milowice ** 1978–79 Polish Championship, with Płomień Milowice


Death

Wiesław Gawłowski died in a car crash in
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, near Płock.


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at ''LegaVolley.it''
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