Witiold WOYDA

<p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">For his first&nbsp;</span><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="Summer Olympic Games 1960" href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letnie_Igrzyska_Olimpijskie_1960">Olympic Games in Rome</a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">&nbsp;in&nbsp;</span><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="1960" href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960">1960</a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">&nbsp;he went as a 21-year-old player.&nbsp;</span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">In the individual&nbsp;</span></span><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="Foil" href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floret">florecist</a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">&nbsp;competition,&nbsp;</span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">he took the 4th place as a rookie.&nbsp;</span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">In the team tournament (together with&nbsp;</span></span><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="Egon Franke (swordsman)" href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egon_Franke_(szermierz)">Egon Franke</a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">&nbsp;,&nbsp;</span><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="Ryszard Kunze" href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryszard_Kunze">Ryszard Kunze</a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">&nbsp;,&nbsp;</span><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="Ryszard Parulski" href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryszard_Parulski">Ryszard Parulski</a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">&nbsp;and&nbsp;</span><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="Janusz R&oacute;życki (swordsman)" href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janusz_R%C3%B3%C5%BCycki_(szermierz)">Janusz R&oacute;życki</a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">&nbsp;) he took the place 5-8.&nbsp;</span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">A year later, at the World Championships in&nbsp;</span></span><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080;background: none;" title="Turin" href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turyn">Turin,</a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">&nbsp;he won a bronze medal in the team, and in&nbsp;</span><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="1962" href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962">1962</a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">&nbsp;in&nbsp;</span><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="Buenos Aires" href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buenos_Aires">Buenos Aires</a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">&nbsp;he became a two-time runner-up in the world (individually and team-wise).</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">At the next&nbsp;</span><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="Summer Olympics 1964" href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letnie_Igrzyska_Olimpijskie_1964">games in Tokyo in&nbsp;</a><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="1964" href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964">1964,</a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">&nbsp;he won the team (team consisting of: Woyda, Franke, Parulski, R&oacute;życki,&nbsp;</span><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="Zbigniew Skrudlik" href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbigniew_Skrudlik">Zbigniew Skrudlik</a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">&nbsp;) his first Olympic medal for taking second place, after the defeat in the final with the team of florecists of the USSR.&nbsp;</span><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="Summer Olympics 1968" href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letnie_Igrzyska_Olimpijskie_1968">The Olympic Games in Mexico 1968</a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">&nbsp;is another medal, again in the team (Woyda, Franke, Parulski, Skrudlik,&nbsp;</span><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="Adam Lisewski" href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Lisewski">Adam Lisewski</a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">&nbsp;), this time brown.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">For the fourth of his&nbsp;</span><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="Summer Olympics 1972" href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letnie_Igrzyska_Olimpijskie_1972">Olympic Games Munich</a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">&nbsp;(&nbsp;</span><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="1972" href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972">1972</a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">&nbsp;) he went with the intention of ending his career.&nbsp;</span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">In the individual tournament, he achieved the greatest success in his career, winning a gold medal and winning, among others&nbsp;</span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">with Russian&nbsp;</span></span><a class="new" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #a55858; background: none;" title="Vladimir Denisov (page does not exist)" href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=W%C5%82adimir_Denisow&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1">Vladimir Denisov</a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">&nbsp;and the famous Hungarian&nbsp;</span><a class="new" style="text-decoration-line: none;color: #a55858; background: none;" title="Jenoe Kamuti (page does not exist)" href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jenoe_Kamuti&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1">Jenoe Kamuti</a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">&nbsp;.&nbsp;</span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">He won the second gold medal in a team tournament in which the team consisting of&nbsp;</span></span><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="Marek Dąbrowski (swordsman)" href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek_D%C4%85browski_(szermierz)">Marek Dąbrowski</a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">&nbsp;,&nbsp;</span><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="Arkadiusz Godel" href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkadiusz_Godel">Arkadiusz Godel</a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">&nbsp;,&nbsp;</span><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="Jerzy Kaczmarek" href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Kaczmarek">Jerzy Kaczmarek</a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">,&nbsp;</span><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background:none;" title="Lech Koziejowski" href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lech_Koziejowski">Lech Koziejowski</a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">&nbsp;and WitoldWoyda defeated the USSR team in the final.&nbsp;</span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">In this way Woyda became the first Polish athlete who won two gold medals during one Olympic Games.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">During his sports career Woyda collected medals of the world championships, winning them a total of 10 (5 silver and 5 bronze), 25 times won in major international foil tournaments.&nbsp;</span><spanstyle="vertical-align: inherit;">In&nbsp;</span></span><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="1972" href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972">1972,</a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">&nbsp;in the prestigious&nbsp;</span><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="The Sport Review poll" href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plebiscyt_Przegl%C4%85du_Sportowego">Plebiscite of the Sport Review,</a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">&nbsp;he was elected the best athlete of the year in Poland.&nbsp;</span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">He was a three-time individual Polish champion in the floret (1964, 1965, 1972).</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">After finishing his career, he went to the&nbsp;</span><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="USA" href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stany_Zjednoczone">USA</a><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">&nbsp;, where he&nbsp;</span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">he worked for the Italian company IMA North America, Inc.&nbsp;</span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">Married three times, he had two children from his second marriage.</span></span></p>

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