Andy Drzewiecki

Andy Drzewiecki, born Andrzej Drzewiecki on 9 November 1947, is an English athlete who moved through several strength and field sports across his career. In his youth he was a nationally known field athlete and won the Amateur Athletic Association Midland Counties discus title in 1968 and 1969 and the shot put in 1973. In the mid-1970s he turned to weightlifting and took a bronze medal in the heavyweight class at the 1978 Commonwealth Games, then competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, where he placed tenth. He also took part in the first Britain's Strongest Man in 1979, won by Geoff Capes, and finished third in that contest in 1982. Away from sport he became a primary school teacher, and his dismissal in 2007 was later judged thoroughly unfair by an employment tribunal.