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Władysław Kozakiewicz

1953 - Today

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Władysław 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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Władysław Kozakiewicz has received more than 217,636 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Władysław Kozakiewicz is the 279th most popular athlete (up from 291st in 2019), the 108th most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 101st in 2019) and the most popular Lithuanian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Władysław Kozakiewicz ranks 279 out of 3,059. Before him are Magnar Solberg, George S. Robertson, Richard Sheldon, Charles Bacon, Janet Moreau, and Xenia Stad-de Jong. After him are Joël Robert, Éva Székely, Karen Harup, Andreas Krieger, Livio Berruti, and Tinus Osendarp.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Władysław Kozakiewicz ranks 205. Before him are Satoru Nakajima, Toyohito Mochizuki, James Read, David Deutsch, Gérard Krawczyk, and Tōru Furuya. After him are Johnny Clegg, Russell Mulcahy, Riek Machar, Åge Hareide, Barry Sonnenfeld, and Robert Picardo.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Władysław Kozakiewicz ranks 108 out of 287. Before him are Yakov Smushkevich (1902), Algirdas Butkevičius (1958), Žemaitė (1845), Donald Kagan (1932), Antanas Baranauskas (1835), and Justinas Marcinkevičius (1930). After him are Osip Senkovsky (1800), Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė (1963), Emil Młynarski (1870), Osip Piatnitsky (1882), Bernard Lown (1921), and Jonas Staugaitis (1868).

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Among ATHLETES In Lithuania

Among athletes born in Lithuania, Władysław Kozakiewicz ranks 1. After him are Władysław Komar (1940), Virgilijus Alekna (1972), Kęstutis Šapka (1949), Hans-Georg Reimann (1941), Romas Ubartas (1960), Nijolė Sabaitė (1950), Darius Kasparaitis (1972), Remigijus Valiulis (1958), Lina Kačiušytė (1963), Robertas Žulpa (1960), and Austra Skujytė (1979).

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