Mieczysław Nowicki

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 Competitor for  Poland Road bicycle racing Olympic Games 1976 Montreal Team Road Race 1976 Montreal Individual Road Race

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

1. "Mieczysław Nowicki Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
2. "News shorts: Gavazzi to Neri Sottoli". cyclingnews.com. 8 November 2014. Retrieved 27 November 2014.

External links

• databaseOlympics
• Mieczysław Nowicki profile at Cycling Archives