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| Nationality | Polish | ||||||
| Born | 12 April 1950 Kamienna Góra, Poland | ||||||
| Height | 189 cm (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||
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Ryszard Bosek (born 12 April 1950) is a Polish former volleyball player and coach. He was a member of the Polish national team from 1969 to 1986, and was a participant in three Olympic Games (1972, 1976, 1980). During his career, he won gold medals in the 1974 World Championship and the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Bosek was born in Kamienna Góra, Poland. In 2008, he had cancer, and returned to health after receiving treatment. He worked as a volleyball expert for Polsat Sport, and as a manager of a few volleyball players (Bartosz Kurek, Piotr Nowakowski, Jakub Jarosz).
Bosek participated in several World Championships: 1970 (5th place), 1974, and 1978 (8th place). In 1974, Poland won the World Championship title for the very first time.
Among Bosek's achievements, he has three silver medals of the European Championship (1975, 1977, 1979). In all three cases, Poland lost to the Soviet Union.
Bosek was a participant in the following Olympic Games: 1972 Munich, 1976 Montreal, and 1980 Moscow. In 1976, as one of the players of the team led by Hubert Jerzy Wagner, he won a gold medal. Poland won the final match of the tournament against the Soviet Union on 30 July 1976.
1977–78 – with Płomień Milowice 
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