# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/w-adys-aw-kozakiewicz
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:01:22.239Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/w-adys-aw-kozakiewicz"
name: "Władysław Kozakiewicz"
slug: "w-adys-aw-kozakiewicz"
description: "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 gesture was viewed as a symbol of resistance against Soviet dominance, it became known as \"Kozakiewicz's gesture\". 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."
tagline: "Polish pole vaulter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/W%C5%82adys%C5%82aw_Kozakiewicz_2016.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1953-12-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.97
  momentum:             0
  historical:           20.85317733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "واديساو كوزاكيويكز"
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    title: "Władysław Kozakiewicz"
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    title: "Władysław Kozakiewicz"
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    title: "Władysław Kozakiewicz"
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    title: "Władysław Kozakiewicz"
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    title: "Władysław Kozakiewicz"
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    title: "Władysław Kozakiewicz"
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    title: "Władysław Kozakiewicz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87%2C_%D0%92%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2"
    title: "Козакевич, Владислав"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump