Zbigniew Pacelt is a Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 sportsman (swimmer, modern pentathlete), Olympian, coach, sport official and politician. He was elected to Sejm

Sejm

The Sejm is the lower house of the Polish parliament. The Sejm is made up of 460 deputies, or Poseł in Polish . It is elected by universal ballot and is presided over by a speaker called the Marshal of the Sejm ....

 on September 25, 2005 getting 3982 votes in 33 Kielce

Kielce

Kielce ) is a city in central Poland with 204,891 inhabitants . It is also the capital city of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship since 1999, previously in Kielce Voivodeship...

 district, candidating from Civic Platform

Civic Platform

Civic Platform , abbreviated to PO, is a centre-right, liberal conservative political party in Poland. It has been the major coalition partner in Poland's government since the 2007 general election, with party leader Donald Tusk as Prime Minister of Poland and Bronisław Komorowski as President...

 list.

For his sporting efforts he was awarded Golden Cross of Merit and Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. He was awarded the title of "Honorary Citizen of Ostrowiec" in 2009.

External links

• Zbigniew Pacelt - parliamentary page - includes declarations of interest, voting record, and transcripts of speeches.