Józef Zapędzki (11 March 1929 – 15 February 2022) was a Polish
sport shooter
Shooting sports is a group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using ranged weapons, mainly small arms (firearms and airguns, in forms such ...
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He competed at five consecutive Olympics from 1964 to 1980 in
25 m rapid fire pistol and won two gold medals, in 1968 and 1972. He is one of three shooters to have successfully defended the men's 25 m rapid fire pistol Olympic title. He is a 23-time Polish Champion. Throughout most of his sporting career, he represented the Śląsk Wrocław
sports club
A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports.
Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and ...
. Zapędzki died in
Wrocław
Wrocław is a city in southwestern Poland, and the capital of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. It is the largest city and historical capital of the region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the Oder River in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Eu ...
on 15 February 2022, at the age of 92.
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1929 births
2022 deaths
People from Łazy
People from Kielce Voivodeship (1919–1939)
Polish male sport shooters
ISSF pistol shooters
Olympic shooters for Poland
Shooters at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Poland
Olympic medalists in shooting
Sport shooters from Silesian Voivodeship
Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
20th-century Polish sportsmen
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