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Born in Nowe, Poland, Malinoswki came 4th at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. He then won gold at the 1974 European Championships. The period from those games to the the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal was marked with a great rivalry with the Swedish athlete Anders Gärderud. At those Olympics Malinoswki won the silver medal behind Garderud, although both athletes went under the old world record.
Garderud retired in 1976, but Malinoswki had to contend with Henry Rono, who set the world record in 1978. Still, Bronislaw beat Rono in a head-to-head that season.
Malinoswki's greatest moment of his career came at the 1980 Summer Olympics where he took gold in the 3000m steeplechase. This time he steadied himself and let the front-runner Filbert Bayi dictate the pace.
Sadly, at the age of 30, Bronislaw was killed in a car accident on the 27th September 1981.
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