Stanisław Adam Sośnicki (12 September 1896 – 2 July 1962) was a Polish military officer, diplomat, sprinter and long jumper. He competed in the men's 100 metres and the long jump events at the

1924 Summer Olympics The 1924 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1924), officially the Games of the VIII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la VIIIe olympiade) and also known as Paris 1924, were an international multi-sport event held in Paris, France. The op ...

. His clubs were Czarni Lwów, Korona Warsaw, Polonia Warsaw and

AZS Warsaw Academic Sports Association Warsaw ( pl, Akademicki Związek Sportowy Warszawa) was a former multi-section University sports club based in Warsaw, Poland. The club was dissolved into University clubs within Universities in Warsaw that were re-est ...

. Sośnicki fought in the battles of

Bydgoszcz Bydgoszcz ( , , ; german: Bromberg) is a city in northern Poland, straddling the meeting of the River Vistula with its left-bank tributary, the Brda. With a city population of 339,053 as of December 2021 and an urban agglomeration with more ...

, Bzura and Warsaw against the German invasion of Poland at the start of World War II. Afterwards, he was held by the Germans in the Oflag X-C and

Oflag II-C Oflag II-C Woldenburg was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp located about from the town of Woldenberg, Brandenburg (now Dobiegniew, western Poland). The camp housed Polish officers and orderlies and had an area of with 25 brick huts fo ...

prisoner-of-war camps.

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* 1896 births 1962 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1924 Summer Olympics Polish diplomats Polish male sprinters Polish male long jumpers Olympic athletes for Poland Athletes from Warsaw People from Warsaw Governorate Polish military personnel of World War II Prisoners of Oflag II-C Ambassadors of Poland to Turkey 20th-century Polish sportsmen {{Poland-athletics-bio-stub