Bishop Dolegiewicz

Quick Facts

Full Name	Bishop Dolegiewicz
Occupation	Track And Field Athlete
Date Of Birth	Jul 8, 1953(1953-07-08)
Age	71
Date Of Death	October 29, 2008, Lehi, UT
Birthplace	Toronto
Country	Canada
Birth City	Ontario
Horoscope	Cancer

Bishop Dolegiewicz Biography

Bishop Dolegiewicz is one of the most popular and richest Track And Field Athlete who was born on July 8, 1953 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Originally from Toronto, he began studying at the University of Texas in 1972 and ranked sixth in the shot put at the NCAA Men’s Outdoor Track and Field Championship the next year. Muscular in build and standing at six foot six inches tall (1.98 m), he improved to fourth place at the following year’s competition. During his time competing for the college’s Texas Longhorns athletic team he earned All-American honours three times: outdoors in 1973–1974, and indoors in 1974. He began competing internationally in 1975 and won a gold medal at the 1975 World University Championships in Athletics before gaining a silver medal at the Pan American Games. In addition to this, he took national level honours with a win in the discus at the Canadian Athletics Championships.

A tall and muscular athlete, he won All-American honours while at the University of Texas and was the 1975 World University champion in the shot put. A silver medal at the 1975 Pan American Games was followed by his first Olympic appearance at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. He won a Commonwealth Games bronze on home turf in 1978 and also set a Canadian record of 20.83 m in the shot put that year.

Bishop Dolegiewicz Net Worth

Bishop Dolegiewicz is one of the richest Track And Field Athlete from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Bishop Dolegiewicz 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Zbigniew “Bishop” Dolegiewicz (July 8, 1953 – October 29, 2008) was a Canadian professional track and field athlete and coach who specialized in the shot put and the discus throw.

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He gave his best Olympic performance at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, where he ranked eleventh in the shot put final of the competition. This was Canada’s best ranking in the men’s Olympic shot put until 2008. Dolegiewicz retired from the sport in 1985, feeling that it was inundated with drug users. With active competition behind him, he became a coach and took up a position at the University of Saskatchewan, later moving to Southern Utah University. Around this period he married a fellow throws athlete, Gale Zaphiropoulos who competed internationally for the United States, but the two later were divorced.

Facts & Trivia

Bobby Ranked on the list of most popular Track And Field Athlete. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Bishop Dolegiewicz celebrates birthday on July 8 of every year.

A steroid user during much of his career, Dolegiewicz testified at the Dubin Inquiry in 1989, revealing that he had taken and distributed Dianabol. He sold the drug to Charlie Francis in 1981, who acquired it for his trainee Ben Johnson (the athlete whose failed test sparked the inquiry). Dolegiewicz also stated that he believed steroid use was so widespread in the throwing events that he could not name an individual who had not taken the drug. The comments to the governmental commission resulted in the loss of his Canadian shot record and his dismissal from his post at the University of Saskatchewan. He died in 2008 at the age of 55.