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. Władysław Kozakiewicz (Poland) set the men's pole vault world record of 5.78 m in Moscow, Soviet Union on July 30, 1980. It stood 11 months, until Thierry Vigneron's 5.80 m on June 20, 1981. Wiki link