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Sport
  
Shot put

Role
  
Olympic athlete

Weight
  
125 kg

Name
  
Wladyslaw Komar

Height
  
1.96 m

Movies
  
Pirates

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Born
  
11 April 1940
Kaunas, Lithuania

Club
  
Wybrzeze GdanskGwardia WarszawaPolonia Warszawa

Died
  
August 17, 1998, Ostromice, Poland

Olympic medals
  
Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics - Shot Put Men

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Władysław Komar (11 April 1940 – 17 August 1998) was a Polish shot put champion, who was born in Kaunas. Competing in three Summer Olympics in 1964-1972, he won the gold medal (21.18 m) at the Munich Games in 1972. His nickname was "King Kong" Komar as attributed to a Sports Illustrated article.

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Komar later became an actor, appearing in more than ten films, including Kazimierz Wielki (1976), Soviet Boris Godunov (1986), Roman Polanski's Pirates (1986), as well as Magnat (1987) and Kiler (1997). He died in a car crash in 1998 along with another Polish Olympic champion, Tadeusz Ślusarski.

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