Rafał Maciej Piszcz (24 October 1940 – 12 September 2012) was a Polish
sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s. Competing in three
Summer Olympics
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, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at
Munich
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in
1972
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. He was born and died in
Poznań
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.
References
Sports-reference.com profile(polish)
1940 births
Canoeists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
2012 deaths
Olympic canoeists for Poland
Olympic bronze medalists for Poland
Polish male canoeists
Canoeists from Poznań
Olympic medalists in canoeing
Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
20th-century Polish sportsmen
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