II Vice-Champion of Poland in Jumping over Obstacles. Trainer at Kozienice, Klikowa and Pruchna Studs. The rider who jumped the 2,20 m wall obstacle on the mare Via Vitae. To this day, the height record on this type of obstacle has not been broken in Poland.
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He was born on November 4, 1937 in Bogusławice. Piotrków Trybunalski District, Łódź Voivodeship. Father Wacław. Mother Marianna née Węgrzynowska. Gabriel's sisters, Joanna, Maria, Barbara. Wife Natalia née Zając. Monika's daughter. Sons Paweł and Maciej.
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In the autumn of 1954, the first meeting with the horses of the Stallion Stud in Bogusławice took place.
“I remember that day, November fifteenth. Then I went to work. My father had eleven hectares of land. I was the only son and my father was sorry to leave the farm. He thought that I would only work part-time in the herd and that I would return to my fatherland. I didn't come back. The horses took me. After the first year of work in Stada, I joined a sports group."
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In 1965 (…) He accepts the proposal of Captain Jerzy Sas Jaworski, with the last combat assignment in the Warsaw Cavalry Division, an outstanding breeder, director of the Horse Stud 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 the horses of his life, the mare Via Vitae, the daughter of the mare Via Aquia by Aquino and the stallion Dar es Salam, a chestnut, born in Kozienice Stud in 1960.
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In 1969, at the International Official Equestrian Competition - CHIO in Olsztyn, he won the Jumping Power Competition, jumping a wall at a height of two hundred and twenty centimeters (to this day, a record jump in Poland on a wall). It is worth recalling that in the same year in Radom, Wiesław Dziadczyk on the mare Via Vitae set the then Polish record in the height jump, which was 2,05 cm.
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Author: Witold Duński, PCBJ edition
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Entry updated: 09.11.2023/XNUMX/XNUMX
Publications in the Polish Digital Equestrian Library:
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Publications
"Horses of Służewiec" (2019) - Paweł Goclowski
"Wiesław Dziadczyk" (2012) - Witold Danish
"History of the SKARB Riding Club at the Kozienice Stud" (2012)
"The way of life - the goal of life" (2011) - Anna Sas-Jaworska
"History of horse riding, part XXX” (1997) – Witold Domański
"Poles in the Nations Cup, 1923-1982" (1982) - Witold Domański
"From the life of the Folk Equestrian Club at Pruchna Stud in Ochaby" (1980) - Paweł Marosz
"Record of the Century" (1979)
"CSI in Warsaw and CSIO in Olsztyn in 1974." (1974) - Wladyslaw Byszewski
"Racot - Warsaw - Olsztyn" - (1969) - Witold Domański
links
"It's worth going back to the past... History of Via Vitae once again" [link] (2020)
Movies
People and Horses pt. 1 (1985) | MOVIE
People and Horses pt. 2 (1985) | MOVIE
People and Horses pt. 3 (1985) | MOVIE
Related Legends:

VIA VITAE (DAR ER SALAM – VIA AQUIA)
The mare bred by SK Kozienice by Dar es Salam, who at the CSIO Olsztyn competition in 1969 with her rider - Wiesław Dziadczyk, jumped the wall 2,20 m.

Marian Kozicki
Silver medalist from the Olympic Games in Moscow 1980. Four-time participant of the Olympic Games. Gold, silver (2x) and bronze (2x) MP medalist in show jumping.

John Kowalczyk
A son of the Cieszyn region, a soldier, an athlete, the greatest talent in the history of Polish equestrianism. Champion and vice-champion of the Olympic Games Moscow 1980.
Gallery:
Photos from the collection of Wiesław Dziadczyk.

National competition in Zakopane around 1956. From the left: Antoni Nowak on Dziad (groom Madejczyk by the horse), an unknown rider on Gretorex (groom Grzybowski by the horse), Wiesław Dziadczyk on Empiryk (?), trainer Aleksander Chajęcki.








Wieslaw Dziadczyk and Via Vitae.





Memorial of Adam Królikiewicz, From the left Wiesław Dziadczyk on a horse Bremen (?), Jan Limanowski and Wojciech Prasek. Krakow, 1976












