How to Pronounce Władysław Kozakiewicz
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Dec 08, 1953 Šalčininkai, Vilnius County, Lithuania 70 years old
Polish pole vaulter
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About Wadysaw Kozakiewicz
- Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz (born 8 December 1953) is a retired Polish athlete who specialised in the pole vault.
- He is best known for winning the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow and the bras d'honneur gesture which he showed to the hostile Soviet crowd.
- In Poland, where the gesture was viewed as a symbol of resistance against Soviet dominance, it became known as "Kozakiewicz's gesture" (gest Kozakiewicza).
- In addition, he won several medals at continental level, won two Summer Universiades and broke the pole vault world record three times, twice outdoors and once indoors.
- He is also a ten-time Polish champion.
