Teodor Kocerka
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Born | 6 August 1927 Bydgoszcz, Second Polish Republic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 25 September 1999 Warsaw, Poland | (aged 72)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Teodor Kocerka (6 August 1927 – 25 September 1999) was a Polish rower who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics, those of 1956, and those of 1960.[1]
He was born in Bydgoszcz in the mid-north of Poland and died in Warsaw.[1]
Olympic events competed
[edit]In 1952 he won the bronze medal in single sculling.[1]
Four years later he finished fourth in the same event.[1]
At the 1960 Games he won his second bronze in the single sculls.[1]
In the same years as the two bronzes he was pre-selected flagbearer for the Polish Olympic squad.
Major competition wins
[edit]He took gold at single sculling at the 1955 European championships.
That same year he won the Diamond Challenge Sculls ('Diamonds') at Henley Royal Regatta, by a length and a half over Sid Rand.[2] He won the next year's event by four lengths, over TA Fox of London RC.[2] His last such final was in 1960, losing by half a length to Stuart Mackenzie of Henley's highly selective Leander Club, not breaking the latter rower's six-year success. By that time Kocerka had changed chosen club from AZS Bydgoszcz to AZS Szczecin.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "Olympics Site Closed | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com". www.sports-reference.com. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
- ^ a b c http://www.rowinghistory.net/HRR%20US/hrr_1946-2000.htm Henley Royal Regatta Results of Final Races 1946–2003 Archived 15 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- 1927 births
- 1999 deaths
- Polish male rowers
- Olympic rowers for Poland
- Rowers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Rowers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Rowers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Poland
- Rowers from Bydgoszcz
- Olympic medalists in rowing
- Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- European Rowing Championships medalists
- Recipients of the Medal of the 10th Anniversary of the People's Republic of Poland
- 20th-century Polish sportsmen