Mieczysław Nowicki
 Nowicki in 2011 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Mieczysław Paweł Nowicki |
| Born |
26 January 1951 Piątek, Poland |
| Team information | |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
Medal record
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Mieczysław Paweł Nowicki (born 26 January 1951 in Piątek) is a retired road bicycle racer from Poland, who represented his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. There he won the bronze medal in the men's individual road race behind Sweden's Bernt Johansson and Italy's Giuseppe Martinelli. In the men's road team trial he won the silver medal with the Polish team. He also competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics.[1] In 1973 he set a Polish national hour record of 42.231km, a record that stood for over 40 years until it was broken by Andrzej Bartkiewicz in 2014.[2]
After retirement he became Minister for Sport in the Polish government.
References
- ↑ "Mieczysław Nowicki Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
- ↑ "News shorts: Gavazzi to Neri Sottoli". cyclingnews.com. 8 November 2014. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
External links
- databaseOlympics
- Mieczysław Nowicki profile at Cycling Archives
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