Ryszard Parulski (9 March 1938 – 10 January 2017) was a Polish fencer.[1] He won a silver medal in the team foil event at the 1964 Summer Olympics and a bronze in the same event at the 1968 Summer Olympics.[2][3] He also won gold medals at the 1961 World Fencing Championships[4] and 1963 World Fencing Championships.[4]
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| Born | 9 March 1938 Warsaw, Poland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 10 January 2017 (aged 78) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A lawyer by civil profession, Parulski served as the vice-chairman of the Polish Olympic Committee from 1990 until 1992. In 1997, he was awarded the Commander's Corss of the Order of Polonia Restituta.[5] In 2017, he was posthumously awarded the Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta by President of Poland Andrzej Duda for "outstanding contributions to the promotion and popularization of sport as well as his activism for the Olympic community".[6]
References
edit- ^ "Zmarł Ryszard Parulski". pzszerm. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
- ^ "Olympics Statistics: Ryszard Parulski". databaseolympics.com. Archived from the original on 18 October 2012. Retrieved 4 November 2010.
- ^ "Ryszard Parulski Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 4 November 2010.
- ^ a b Łuczak, Maciej (2002). Szermierka w Polsce w latach 1945-1989 [Fencing in Poland in the Years 1945-1989] (in Polish). Poznań: AWF w Poznaniu. p. 272. ISBN 83-88923-00-5.
- ^ "M.P. 1997 nr 86 poz. 865". isap.sejm.gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 29 July 2024.
- ^ "M.P. 2017 poz. 305". isap.sejm.gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 29 July 2024.
