page_title: Władysław Kozakiewicz
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Władysław Kozakiewicz / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Władysław Kozakiewicz medal &amp; autograph in Avenue of Sport Stars Dziwnów.
context_page_description: Władysław Kozakiewicz 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". 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.
context_section_description: Since 1977 he has been married to Anna Kozakiewicz, a former swimmer. They have two daughters Katarzyna (b. 1979) and Małgorzata (b. 1983). In December 1986, he settled in Bissendorf, Lower Saxony, northwestern Germany, where he lives to this day.
caption: Copy of W. Kozakiewicz medal and autograph in  Sports Star Avenue in Dziwnów
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