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Witold Woyda

1939 - 2008

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Witold Woyda (10 May 1939 – 5 May 2008) was a Polish fencer who won four Olympic medals in the foil between 1964 and 1972, including two gold medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He was named the Polish Sportspersonality of the Year for 1972 by readers of Przegląd Sportowy. Born in Poznań, he immigrated to the United States in the late 1970s, settling in Bronxville, New York, and worked for an Italian packaging company. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Witold Woyda has received more than 21,285 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Witold Woyda is the 1,523rd most popular athlete (down from 1,349th in 2019), the 1,201st most popular biography from Poland (down from 1,089th in 2019) and the 34th most popular Polish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Witold Woyda ranks 1,523 out of 6,025. Before him are Vyacheslav Vedenin, Irmgard Praetz, Siegfried Purner, Dorothy Poynton-Hill, Frank Odberg, and Väinö Siikaniemi. After him are Yuliya Levchenko, Carl Kaufmann, Tibor Tatai, Aldo Ghira, Heinz Ulzheimer, and Charles Marion.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Witold Woyda ranks 521. Before him are Fernando Poe Jr., Erwin Teufel, Józef Grudzień, Cleve Moler, Oscar Calics, and Wilhelm Bungert. After him are Ramaz Urushadze, Paul Craig Roberts, Henning Christophersen, Mia Gommers, Bernie Casey, and Marino Perani. Among people deceased in 2008, Witold Woyda ranks 329. Before him are Buddy Miles, Jerry Wexler, Pippa Bacca, Gordon B. Hinckley, Jeff Healey, and Irmgard Praetz. After him are Carl Kaufmann, Avery Dulles, Alton Ellis, Françoise Demulder, Viktor Kuzkin, and Eddy Arnold.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Witold Woyda ranks 1,201 out of 1,694. Before him are Leszek Engelking (1955), Józef Grudzień (1939), Tomasz Kuszczak (1982), Friedrich Scherfke (1909), Albrecht Weber (1825), and Adam Darski (1977). After him are Robert Korzeniowski (1968), Maria Janion (1926), Józef Lange (1897), Wojciech Zabłocki (1930), Kazimierz Paździor (1935), and Jerzy Radziwiłowicz (1950).

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Among ATHLETES In Poland

Among athletes born in Poland, Witold Woyda ranks 34. Before him are Heinz Pollay (1908), Tadeusz Ślusarski (1950), Jacek Wszoła (1956), Jerzy Kaczmarek (1948), Janusz Sidło (1933), and Józef Grudzień (1939). After him are Robert Korzeniowski (1968), Kazimierz Paździor (1935), Andrzej Zieliński (1936), Zygmunt Chychła (1926), Jadwiga Wajs (1912), and Andrzej Badeński (1943).

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