Ryszard Szurkowski
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Full name | Ryszard Jan Szurkowski | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Świebodów, Poland | 12 January 1946|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ryszard Jan Szurkowski (born 12 January 1946 in Świebodów) is a retired road bicycle racer from Poland.
He won twice Olympic silver medal in team time trial at Munich 1972 and Montreal 1976.[1][2]
Szurkowski won three gold medals and silver one in World Cycling Amateur Championships at Barcelona 1973, Montreal 1974, and Mettet 1975.
He won four times a cycling event The Peace Race in 1970, 1971, 1973, and 1975 and Dookoła Mazowsza in 1977 and 1978.
His son, Norbert, died in the September 11 attacks.
In 2018, Szurkowski crashed during a bike race in Germany at 40 km/h. He suffered serious injuries, incl. crushed spinal cord that left him paralyzed. After 5 months of therapy, he regained some of the sensation in his toes.
References
- ^ databaseOlympics Archived 16 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Olympics at Sports-Reference.com
External links
- Ryszard Szurkowski at Cycling Archives
Categories:
- 1946 births
- Living people
- People from Milicz County
- Polish male cyclists
- Cyclists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists of Poland
- Olympic silver medalists for Poland
- Olympic medalists in cycling
- Sportspeople from Lower Silesian Voivodeship
- Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- UCI Road World Champions (elite men)
- Polish cycling biography stubs
- Polish Olympic medalist stubs