Teodor Kocerka

Teodor Kocerka (6 August 1927 – 25 September 1999) was a Polish rower who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics, those of 1956, and those of 1960.[1]

Teodor Kocerka
Teodor Kocerka
Personal information
Born6 August 1927
Bydgoszcz, Second Polish Republic
Died25 September 1999(1999-09-25) (aged 72)
Warsaw, Poland
Sport
SportRowing
Medal record
Men's rowing
Representing  Poland
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 1952 HelsinkiSingle sculls
Bronze medal – third place 1960 RomeSingle sculls
European Championships
Silver medal – second place 1953 Copenhagen Single sculls
Silver medal – second place 1954 Amsterdam Single sculls
Gold medal – first place 1955 Ghent Single sculls
Bronze medal – third place 1956 Bled Single sculls
Bronze medal – third place 1959 Mâcon Single sculls

He was born in Bydgoszcz in the mid-north of Poland and died in Warsaw.[1]

Olympic events competed

In 1952 he won the bronze medal in single sculling.[1]

Four years later he finished fourth in the same event.[1]

At the 1960 Games he won his second bronze in the single sculls.[1]

In the same years as the two bronzes he was pre-selected flagbearer for the Polish Olympic squad.

Major competition wins

He took gold at single sculling at the 1955 European championships.

That same year he won the Diamond Challenge Sculls ('Diamonds') at Henley Royal Regatta, by a length and a half over Sid Rand.[2] He won the next year's event by four lengths, over TA Fox of London RC.[2] His last such final was in 1960, losing by half a length to Stuart Mackenzie of Henley's highly selective Leander Club, not breaking the latter rower's six-year success. By that time Kocerka had changed chosen club from AZS Bydgoszcz to AZS Szczecin.[2]

References
  1. https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ko/teodor-kocerka-1.html profile Archived 2020-04-17 at the Wayback Machine
  2. http://www.rowinghistory.net/HRR%20US/hrr_1946-2000.htm Henley Royal Regatta Results of Final Races 1946–2003 Archived 15 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
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