Władysław Kozakiewicz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Władysław Kozakiewicz

Polish pole vaulter

Date of Birth: 08-Dec-1953

Place of Birth: Šalčininkai, Vilnius County, Lithuania

Profession: athletics competitor

Nationality: Poland, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

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.