Marian Zieliński

Marian Zieliński

Zieliński in 1963
Personal information
Born	24 December 1929 Chełm, Poland
Died	13 October 2005 (aged 75) Warsaw, Poland
Height	160 cm (5 ft 3 in)
Sport
Sport	weightlifting
Club	Legia Warszawa
Coached by	Józef Styczyński
Medal record Representing Poland Olympic Games 1956 Melbourne -60 kg 1964 Tokyo -67.5 kg 1968 Mexico City -67.5 kg World Championships 1959 Warsaw -60 kg 1961 Vienna -67.5 kg 1962 Budapest -67.5 kg 1963 Stockholm -67.5 kg 1964 Tokyo -67.5 kg 1965 Tehran -67.5 kg 1966 East Berlin -67.5 kg 1968 Mexico City -67.5 kg European Championships 1956 Helsinki -60 kg 1957 Katowice -67.5 kg 1959 Warsaw -60 kg 1960 Milan -67.5 kg 1961 Vienna -67.5 kg 1962 Budapest -67.5 kg 1963 Stockholm -67.5 kg 1966 East Berlin -67.5 kg 1968 Leningrad -67.5 kg

Marian Zieliński (24 December 1929 – 13 October 2005) was a Polish weightlifter. He competed at the 1956, 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics and won bronze medals in 1956, 1964 and 1968, placing fourth in 1960. He held the world and European titles in 1959 and 1963. Zieliński set three ratified world records: two in the snatch in 1958 and one in the clean and jerk in 1964.

Zieliński took up weightlifting in the early 1950s, and retired in 1970. He then coached weightlifters until 1978, and after that worked as a painter, sculptor and jeweler. He was married to Jadwiga Nienartowicz and had two sons, Andrzej (born 1958) and Mark (born 1960), both live in Canada.