Tomasz Wójtowicz

For the football player, see Tomasz Wójtowicz (football player).

Tomasz Wójtowicz
Tomasz Wójtowicz, 2013
Personal information
Full name	Tomasz Grzegorz Wójtowicz
Born	(1953-09-22)22 September 1953 Lublin, Poland
Died	24 October 2022(2022-10-24) (aged 69)
Height	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)
Career
Years Teams 1968–1972 1972–1978 1978–1983 1983–1984 1984–1986 1986–1987 1987–1989 AZS Lublin Avia Świdnik Legia Warsaw Edilcuoghi Sassuolo Santal Parma Granarolo Ferrara Famila Città di Castello
National team
1973–1984  Poland (325)
Honours Men's volleyball Representing  Poland Olympic Games 1976 Montreal FIVB World Championship 1974 Mexico CEV European Championship 1975 Yugoslavia 1977 Finland 1979 France 1983 East Germany

Tomasz Grzegorz Wójtowicz (22 September 1953 – 24 October 2022) was a Polish volleyball player. In his later life, he worked as a volleyball commentator. As a member of the Poland national team, he won the titles of the 1976 Olympic Champion and the 1974 World Champion.

Wójtowicz was considered one of the first volleyball players in the world to start attacking from the back row.[1] In 2001, he was listed by the International Volleyball Federation as one of the top eight volleyball players in the world.[2][3] In 2002, he became the first Polish volleyball player to be inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame.

Wójtowicz died after a long illness on 24 October 2022, at the age of 69.[4]

Honours

Club

• CEV European Champions Cup
  • 1984–85 – with Santal Parma
  • 1985–86 – with Santal Parma
• Domestic
  • 1982–83 Polish Championship, with Legia Warsaw

Youth national team

• 1971 CEV U20 European Championship

Individual awards

• 1977: FIVB World Cup – Most valuable player
• 1977: FIVB World Cup – Best blocker

State awards

• 2021: Commander's Cross of Polonia Restituta[5]

References

1. "Biography". International Volleyball Hall of Fame. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
2. "Maszyna do wygrywania". Przegląd Sportowy (in Polish). 22 May 2021. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
3. "La Stagione 1983/84, quella del doppio straniero". volleyball.it (in Italian). 21 December 2020. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
4. "Zmarł Tomasz Wójtowicz, jeden z najwybitniejszych polskich siatkarzy". PZPS (in Polish). 24 October 2022. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
5. "Tomasz Wójtowicz odznaczony Krzyżem Komandorskim". PZPS (in Polish). 6 February 2021. Retrieved 6 February 2021.

External links

• Player profile at Olympics.com
• Player profile at Olympedia (archive)
• Player profile at LegaVolley.it (in Italian)
• Player profile at Volleyhall.org
• Player profile at Volleybox.net