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Witold Majchrzycki

Polish boxer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ8028446 ↗
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Walter Witold Majchrzycki (4 February 1909 – 3 December 1993) was a Polish boxer who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.

He was born in Berlin, German Empire, and died in Poznań.

In 1928 he was eliminated in the second round of the lightweight class after losing his bout to the upcoming silver medalist Stephen Halaiko.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1909, 1993, 1928—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1909-02-04. For this dossier, Witold, Majchrzycki and Polish is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Witold Majchrzycki” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.