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Honorary Patron:
Patron: Jolanta and Jacek Kołodziński with their children - Aleksandra and Adam
Guardian: Zofia and Wojciech Mickunas with their daughters Barbara and Bogna
Soldier, rider, teacher, trainer. Chevalier of the Order of Virtuti Militari. Polish vice-champion of eventing, Warsaw 1934.
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He was born on April 20, 1907 in Kazimierza Mała in the Pińczów district in the Kielce province. He died on November 2, 1973 in Poznań. He was buried in the Old Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw (plot e, row 5, grave 5).
Jan Kazimierz Mickunas was the son of Kazimierz and Marianna Stanisława née Rayska. The Mickunas family came from Lithuania, and the Rayscy family owned a landed estate in the Kielce region. Initially, the Mickunases lived in Ojców in the Olkusz county. Jan Mickunas began his education at home, under the guidance of his father, who was a teacher, and from 1917 he attended a gymnasium in Kielce. After the death of his father (young Mickunas was in the pre-matura class at the time), his uncle took Jan to Sosnowiec, where in 1924 he passed his secondary school-leaving examination at the humanistic State Gimnazjum im. Bolesław Prus.
On September 1, 1924, Jan Mickunas joined the Polish Army and was drafted into the Cadet School in Warsaw, which he graduated in June 1925 with a very good result and the first place as the top student of the year. (…)
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Author: Renata Urban
Excerpts from the book Riders-Olympians of the Second Polish Republic
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“History of horse riding, part XIV” (1993) – Witold Domański
“History of horse riding, part XII” (1992) – Witold Domański
"Equestrian sport in the horse weapons of the Second Polish Republic" (1974) - Zygmunt Bielecki
“Riders-Olympians of the Second Polish Republic” fragments – Renata Urban
