Zbigniew Kaczmarek was a Polish lightweight weightlifter who competed at three Olympic Games. Born on 31 July 1946 in Tarnowskie Góry, he died on 15 May 2023 in Hannover, Germany. He won the bronze medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics, was disqualified in 1976 after being the gold medallist at Montreal for having taken anabolic steroids, and placed sixth in 1980. He won the lightweight world title in 1970 and 1971 and took many other World and European Championships medals between 1969 and 1978. He also set two lightweight world records in 1975 and 1976, and in 1982 he fled with his son and family to West Germany.
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