Zbigniew Czesław Wóycicki (June 1, 1902 – April 2, 1928) was a Polish military officer and skier. Wóycicki was born in

Zakopane Zakopane (Gorals#Language, Podhale Goral: ''Zokopane'') is a town in the south of Poland, in the southern part of the Podhale region at the foot of the Tatra Mountains. From 1975 to 1998, it was part of Nowy Sącz Voivodeship; since 1999, it has ...

. He was the leader of the national Olympic

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team at the

1924 Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. * January 20–January 30, 30 – Kuomintang in Ch ...

and

1928 Winter Olympics The 1928 Winter Olympics, officially known as the II Olympic Winter Games (; ; ; ) and commonly known as St. Moritz 1928 (; ), were an international winter multi-sport event that was celebrated from 11 to 19 February 1928 in St. Moritz, Swit ...

. In 1924, when the Polish m.p. team was one of two which withdrew owing to bad weather conditions, he was the youngest participant. In 1928 he had the rank of a , and finished with his team seventh. He died in his hometown in the same year after the

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. Posthumously he was awarded the Silver Cross of Merit.''Monitor Polski'' no. 260, 1928, item 636
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1902 births 1928 deaths Polish military patrol (sport) runners Military patrol competitors at the 1924 Winter Olympics Military patrol competitors at the 1928 Winter Olympics Olympic biathletes for Poland Skiers from Zakopane Recipients of the Silver Cross of Merit (Poland) {{Skimountaineering-bio-stub