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Wladyslaw Komar

Wladyslaw Komar (1940-1998) was a Polish shot put champion. In 1972 Olympics in Munich he won a gold medal (21.18 m). Known for womanizing and drinking, after his successful sports career, he was a movie and theater star, as well as a singer. He died in a car crash in 1998 along another Polish Olympic champion, Tadeusz Slusarski.

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