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Guardians: Wiesław Dziadczyk’s family
II Vice-Champion of Poland in show jumping. A trainer in the stud farms Kozienice, Klikowa and Pruchna. A rider who jumped an obstacle “wall” 2.20 m on the mare Via Vitae. To this day, this record of height on this type of obstacle is not beaten in Poland.
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He was born in Bogusławice on 04 November 1937. District Piotrków Trybunalski, Łódź Voivodeship. His father: Wacław. His mother: marianna Węgrzynowska from home. His sisters: Gabriela, Joanna, Maria, Barbara. His wife: Natalia Zając from home. His daughter: Monika. His sons: Paul and Maciej.
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In the autumn of 1954, the first meeting with horses of the Stallions Depot in Bogusławice took place.
“I remember this day, November 15th. Then I went to work. My father had eleven hectares of land. I was the only son and my father was sorry of my leaving the farm. He thought that I would only supplement my income at the Depot and that I would return to my patrimony. I did not come back. I was taken by horses. After the first year of work in the Depot, I went to a sports group.“
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In 1965 (…) he accepts the proposal of the cavalry captain Jerzy Sas Jaworski, with the last combat assignment in the Warsaw Cavalry Division, an outstanding breeder, the director of the Stud Farm in Kozienice. He becomes a sports instructor in a group of sports horses, after major Marian Fabrycy.
He spent twelve years in Kozienice. There he met horses of his life, mare Via Vitae a daughter of mare Via Aquia (by Aquino) and stallion Dar es Salam, a chestnut, born in Kozienice Stud Farm in 1960.
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In 1969, at the International Official Horse Competitions – CHIO in Olsztyn, he won the Puissance Show Jumping while jumping a wall two hundred twenty centimetres high (to this day this is the record in jump over the wall in Poland ). It is worth recalling that in the same year in Radom, Wiesław Dziadczyk on the mare Via Vitae, established the then Polish record in the high-jump, which was 2.05 cm.
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Author: Witold Duński, PCBJ Edition
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„Warto wracać do przeszłości… Historia Via Vitae raz jeszcze” [link] (2020)
„Konie Służewca” (2019) – Paweł Gocłowski
„Wiesław Dziadczyk” (2012) – Witold Duński
„Historia Klubu Jeździeckiego SKARB przy Stadninie Koni Kozienice” (2012)
„Droga życia-cel życia” (2011) – Anna Sas-Jaworska
„Z życia Ludowego Klubu Jeździeckiego przy SK Pruchna w Ochabach” (1980) – Paweł Marosz
„CSI w Warszawie i CSIO w Olsztynie w 1974 r.” (1974) – Władysław Byszewski
„Racot — Warszawa — Olsztyn” (1969) – Witold Domański
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This is a mare bred at Kozienice Stud Farm, by Dar es Salam, that jumped over a wall 2.20 m high under Wiesław Dziadczyk at CSIO Olsztyn in 1969.

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Jan Kowalczyk
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Gallery:
Photographs from the collection of Wiesław Dziadczyk.
National competition in Zakopane around 1956. From left: Antoni Nowak on Dziad (groom Madejczyk beside the horse), an unknown rider on Gretorex (groom Grzybowski beside the horse), Wiesław Dziadczyk on Empiryk (?), trainer Aleksander Chajęcki. From left: Antoni Nowak on Dziad, an unknown rider from the Łódź club on Gretorex, Wiesław Dziadczyk on Empiryk (or Farsz), Łódź, 50’s. Olsztyn 1969, an obstacle preceding the wall 2.20 m. Via Vitae, a small brave mare who jumped 2.20 m during the Puissance Show Jumping in Olsztyn 1969. The Cup won during the Puissance Show Jumping (2.20m), Olsztyn 1969. The High-Jump, Radom 1969. Established record of Poland 2.05 m. DDR CHIO Grand Prize of Leipzig, height 1.50 m. Wiesław Dziadczyk on Via Vitae. The seventies. Wiesław Dziadczyk during a competition. Wiesław Dziadczyk and Via Vitae.
Training in Kozienice, 70’s. Photo: Zofia Raczkowska.Memorial of Adam Królikiewicz, Wiesław Dziadczyk on Via Vitae. Kraków, 70’s. From left: Director Jerzy Jaworski, President, vet. Czesław Żurawski and Wiesław Dziadczyk on the gelding Chiton (by Aquino), about 1975-1976. From left: Wiesław Dziadczyk, Marian Wejner, Maciej Krakowiak, Krzysztof Ręmbiś, Kozienice 70’s. Memorial of Adam Królikiewicz; from the left Wiesław Dziadczyk on Bremen (?), Jan Limanowski and Wojciech Prasek. Cracow, 1976. European Championship, Rotterdam Trainer Mossakowski, Wiesław Dziadczyk, Stefan Grodzicki, Stefan Stanisławiak and the fan Pękala. Regional competition in Klikowa. From left: Wiesław Dziadczyk on Ikrzak, Stefan Kumorek on Orczyk. Competition in Kozienice. In the middle: Wiesław Dziadczyk on Via Vitae.
After winning the team competition (Klikowa 1977). From left: Czesław Janik on Deju, that is kept by the director of Pruchna Stud Farm Jan Miech, Paweł Dziadczyk on Intruz, next to him – the President of the LZS Ochaby Paweł Marosz and Krzysztof Goraus on Aton and trainer Wiesław Dziadczyk.Greetings from Aachen, from the team to Wiesław Dziadczyk. Congratulations to Wiesław Dziadczyk after the Puissance Show Jumping (2.20 m). Congratulations to Wiesław Dziadczyk after the Puissance Show Jumping (2.20 m). Thanks for the fruitful cooperation from Wiesław Dziadczyk’s colleagues. Puissance Show Jumping 2.20 m. A record holder – Wiesław Dziadczyk on Via Vitae. W. Prasek from Kozienice is a medallist of the European Championship. Photographs from the collection of Wiesław Dziadczyk. In the riding school. Saga of the Dziadczyk’s family.