Jerzy Kulej
Jerzy Zdzisław Kulej (19 October 1940 – 13 July 2012) was a Polish boxer, politician and sports commentator.At the 1964 Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the light welterweight division (<63.5 kg) defeating Yevgeny Frolov.[3] In 1998, he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta by President Aleksander Kwaśniewski for his "outstanding contributions to the Olympic movement, the development and popularization of physical culture as well as sporting achievements".While in recovery, he learned that he suffered from an eye melanoma that was, in the end, the direct cause of his death in Warsaw on 13 July 2012 at the age of 71.Dwie strony medalu (Kulej: Two Sides of the Medal) premiered in Paris and was subsequently selected to be shown at the Gdynia Film Festival.
CzęstochowaWarsawBoxingWeight classLight welterweightPolandOlympic Games1964 Tokyo1968 Mexico CityEuropean Amateur Championships1963 Moscow1965 East Berlin1967 Romepoliticiansports commentatorFeliks Stamm1964 Summer OlympicsYevgeny FrolovEnrique RegüeiferosMarek PiwowskiOrder of Polonia RestitutaAleksander KwaśniewskiDemocratic Left AlliancePolsat SportmelanomaPowązki Military CemeterybiopicGdynia Film FestivalXawery ŻuławskiRoberto AmayaRichard McTaggartIosif MihalicEddie BlayJános KajdiGiambattista CaprettiPeter TiepoldArto NilssonEnrique RequeiferosList of PolesSport in PolandPoland at the OlympicsOlympic boxing champions – men's light welterweightCharles AdkinsVladimir YengibaryanBohumil NěmečekRay SealesRay LeonardPatrizio OlivaJerry PageVyacheslav YanovskiyHéctor VinentMahammatkodir AbdoollayevManus BoonjumnongManuel Félix DíazRoniel IglesiasFazliddin Gaibnazarov