Mieczysław Nowicki
Nowicki in 2011
Personal information
Full nameMieczysław Paweł Nowicki
Born (1951-01-26) 26 January 1951
Piątek, Poland
Team information
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Medal record
Representing  Poland
Men's road bicycle racing
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1976 Montreal Team Road Race
Bronze medal – third place 1976 Montreal Individual Road Race
Copy of M. Nowicki medal and autograph in Sports Star Avenue in Dziwnów

Mieczysław Paweł Nowicki (born 26 January 1951, in Piątek) is a retired road bicycle racer from Poland, who represented his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. There he won the bronze medal in the men's individual road race behind Sweden's Bernt Johansson and Italy's Giuseppe Martinelli. In the men's road team trial he won the silver medal with the Polish team. He also competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics.[1] In 1973 he set a Polish national hour record of 42.231 km, a record that stood for over 40 years until it was broken by Andrzej Bartkiewicz in 2014.[2]

References

  1. "Mieczysław Nowicki Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  2. "News shorts: Gavazzi to Neri Sottoli". cyclingnews.com. 8 November 2014. Retrieved 27 November 2014.


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