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News17 Aug 1998


Wladyslaw Komar and Tadeusz Slusarski, Polish Olympic champions, killed in car crash

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Wladyslaw Komar and Tadeusz Slusarski, Polish Olympic champions, killed in car crash

WARSAW, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Two Polish former Olympic champions died on Monday when their car crashed head on into another vehicle near the north-western village of Przybierowo, the Polish radio station Zet reported. 
Zet said 58-year-old Wladyslaw Komar, who won the shot put gold medal at the 1972 Olympics and 48-year-old Tadeusz Slusarski, the 1976 Olympic pole vault champion, burned to death in their car.

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