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Honorary Patron: Poznańskie Stowarzyszenie Olimpijskie
Sponsor: ..In Pectore
Guardian: Jumping Events Poznań Sports Club
A cavalry captain. 15th Regiment of Uhlans of Poznań. A silver medallist of Olympic Games in Amsterdam 1928 in show jumping on Mylord.
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Born on 08 October 1901 in Rostov-on-Don.
His father: Aleksander. His mother: Wanda Scipio del Campo from home. A graduate of a grammar school in Smieła, Kiev guberniya, Infantry Cadet School in Warsaw, Cavalry Training Centre in Grudziądz, Central Gymnastics and Sport School in Poznań. N.C.O. of 11th Regiment of Don Uhlans at Voluntary Russian Army, 2nd Dragoon Regiment of cavalry captain Kossak, 3rd Independent Unit of Border Riflemen, 6th Regiment of Mounted Riflemen, 1st Light Cavalrymen Regiment, a second lieutenant of 15th Regiment of Uhlans of Poznań.
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Amsterdam: 17th May – 12th August 1928 – silver medal on Mylord together with Michał Antoniewicz-Woysym on Readgledt and Kazimierz Szosland on Ali. In individual show jumping, he was placed fourth on Mylord.
Before he was the Olympic medallist in 1928, he had been a soldier first.
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Since 1919, the senior rifleman Kazimierz Gzowski fought for Poland at 2nd Dragoon Regiment. Since 06 August 1919, he was a corporal at 6th Regiment of Mounted Riflemen. Since September 1920, he fought as a platoon leader at a squadron of heavy machineguns of 1st Light Cavalrymen Regiment.
Read more… (click to go to Polish Digital Equestrian Library)
Author: Witold Duński
Kazimierz Gzowski died on June 25, 1986 in London, at the age of 85.
Polish Digital Equestrian Library:
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„Jedna szkoła jazdy, różne losy” (2019) – Hanna Łysakowska
„Polscy jeźdźcy olimpijscy okresu międzywojennego część II” (2019) – Hanna Łysakowska
„Polscy jeźdźcy olimpijscy okresu międzywojennego część I” (2018) – Hanna Łysakowska
„Jeźdźcy-Olimpijczycy Drugiej Rzeczypospolitej” (2012) – Renata Urban
„Jeźdźcy olimpijscy” (2000) – Hanna Łysakowska
„Honorowa Odznaka Jeździecka” (1936) – Redakcja czasopisma Jeździec i Hodowca
„Jeźdźcy polscy na IX Olimpjadzie” (1928) – Leon Kon
„Kazimierz Gzowski” (2012) – Witold Duński
„Gzowski Kazimierz Aleksander” – Zespół redakcyjny
Gallery:
Regimental badge of the 6th Mounted Rifle Regiment. 
Lieutenant Gzowski on the Milord, Nice, 1928 
Lieutenant Kazimierz Gzowski triumphantly jumps on Readgledt in Budapest in 1929.
In 1929, at the Madison Square Garden in New York, the Polish national team won the Nations Cup. Lieutenant Kazimierz Gzowski participated in it on Hamlet and Readgledtt. From the left, lieutenant Stefan Starnawski, team leader Colonel Rudolf Dreszer, Ambassador of the Republic of Poland in Washington Kornel Filipowicz, Lieutenant Kazimierz Gzowski, Lieutenant Władysław Zgorzelski.
September 1928. Equestrian stadium in Łazienki. The Polish national team won the Nations Cup – from the left: Rtm. Michał Antoniewicz-Woysym on a Banzaj, Lieutenant Kazimierz Gzowski on a Mylord, Lieutenant Colonel Karol Rómmel on Berk (he did not compete in the Cup), Lieutenant Henryk Roycewicz on Black Boy, Lieutenant Władysław Ładna Zgorzelski on a horse Mylord .
Polish equestrian team at the Ministry of Military Affairs in Warsaw, after returning from the International Equestrian Competition for the „Nations Cup” in New York. From the left: Lieutenant Kazimierz Gzowski, Lieutenant Władysław Zgorzelski, Colonel Rudolf Dreszer, Deputy Minister of Military Affairs, General Kazimierz Fabrycy, Head of the Cavalry Department in the Ministry of Military Affairs, Colonel Zbigniew Brochwicz-Lewiński, Lieutenant Stefan Starnawski. Photo from the NAC collection.
