Władysław Kozakiewicz, Lithuanian-Polish pole vaulter and coach

Władysław Kozakiewicz

Polish pole vaulter

Władysław Kozakiewicz is a Lithuanian-born 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…