Background
Baszanowski was born in Grudziądz on 15 August 1935.
Baszanowski was born in Grudziądz on 15 August 1935.
A month after his 25th birthday he competed for the World Championships in his sport. He became over the course of the next ten years the most decorated lightweight weightlifter at international level in the first century of its widespread competition, the 20th century. Baszanowski set 24 world and 61 national records.
In 1993 Baszanowski was inducted into the International Weightlifting Federation Hall of Fame.
In 1999, he became the President of the European Weightlifting Federation. Baszanowski died in Warsaw at the age of 75 on 29 April 2011.