Waldemar Romuald Baszanowski (15 August 1935 – 29 April 2011) was a Polish lightweight (-67.5 kg) weightlifter.

His first wife Anita was killed in a car accident in 1969, 8 July, in which he was the driver; Baszanowski and his son survived.

[1] In 1993 Baszanowski was inducted into the International Weightlifting Federation Hall of Fame.

In 2007, Baszanowski fell off a tree in his garden, broke his back and was paralyzed from the neck down.

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