Tadeusz Walasek (15 July 1936 – 4 November 2011) was a Polish boxer.Tadeusz Walasek. Boxrec.com (7 October 2008). Retrieved on 2015-06-16. He competed at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won a silver medal in 1960 and a bronze in 1964, both in the middleweight division. In 1960 he lost the final bout to Eddie Crook by a narrow margin (2:3).Tadeusz Walasek. sports-reference. Retrieved on 16 June 2015.
Walasek competed three times at the European Amateur Boxing Championships and won two silver medals, in 1957 in the light middleweight division12th European Championships. Amateur-boxing.strefa.pl. Retrieved on 16 June 2015. and in 1959 in the middleweight category,13th European Championships. Amateur-boxing.strefa.pl. Retrieved on 16 June 2015. and a gold medal in 1961 in the middleweight.14th European Championships. Amateur-boxing.strefa.pl. Retrieved on 16 June 2015.
He was the winner of the Aleksander Reksza Boxing Award 1996.Aleksander Reksza Boxing Award. Bokser.org (13 November 2009). Retrieved on 2015-06-16.
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