Kazimierz Lipień, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Olympic wrestler
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Place of Birth: Jaczków, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
About Kazimierz Lipień
- Kazimierz Lipien (6 February 1949 – 13 November 2005) was a featherweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Poland.
- He competed at the 1972, 1976 and 1980 Olympics and placed third, first and sixth, respectively.
- Between 1971 and 1979 he collected 12 medals at the world and European championships, including five gold medals.
- His twin brother Józef was also an Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler.Lipien was born in a large family, and besides Józef had four brothers, Edward, Stanislaw, Bogdan and Zbigniew, and two sisters, Ewa and Michalina.
- He graduated from a technical school in 1972, and in 1980 received a coaching degree in Warsaw.
- In 1981 he moved to Sweden, where he won three national titles (in 1981 and 1985 in Greco-Roman and in 1982 in freestyle wrestling) and trained wrestlers at various clubs for ten years.
- In 1991 he returned to Poland and headed the national junior wrestling team.
- He died in the United States, and was survived by wife Antonina and sons Peter and Jacob.
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