Tomasz Wójtowicz
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Tomasz Grzegorz Wójtowicz (22 September 1953 – 24 October 2022) was a Polish
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player. In his later life, he worked as a volleyball commentator. As a member of the Poland national team, he won the titles of the 1976 Olympic Champion and the 1974 World Champion. Wójtowicz was considered one of the first volleyball players in the world to start attacking from the back row. In 2001, he was listed by the
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as one of the top eight volleyball players in the world. In 2002, he became the first Polish volleyball player to be inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame. Wójtowicz died after a long illness on 24 October 2022, at the age of 69.


Honours


Club

* CEV European Champions Cup ** 1984–85 – with Santal Parma ** 1985–86 – with Santal Parma * Domestic ** 1982–83 Polish Championship, with
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Youth national team

* 1971 CEV U20 European Championship


Individual awards

* 1977: FIVB World Cup – Most valuable player * 1977: FIVB World Cup – Best blocker


State awards

* 2021: Commander's Cross of Polonia Restituta


References


External links

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Player profile
at ''LegaVolley.it''

at ''Volleyhall.org''
Player profile
at ''Volleybox.net'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Wojtowicz, Tomasz 1953 births 2022 deaths Sportspeople from Lublin Volleyball players from Lublin Voivodeship Polish men's volleyball players Olympic volleyball players for Poland Volleyball players at the 1976 Summer Olympics Volleyball players at the 1980 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in volleyball Olympic gold medalists for Poland Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics Polish expatriate volleyball players in Italy Legia Warsaw (men's volleyball) players International Volleyball Hall of Fame inductees 20th-century Polish sportsmen