Zdzisław Szczęsny Kawecki-Gozdawa (21 May 1902 in Husiatyn – April 1940 in Katyn) was a Polish

horse rider The horse (''Equus ferus caballus'') is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant subspecies of ''Equus ferus''. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million ...

who competed in the

1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad () and officially branded as Berlin 1936, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, then capital of Nazi Germany. Berlin won the bid to ...

. In 1936 he and his horse ''Bambino'' won the silver medal as part of the Polish

eventing Eventing (also known as three-day eventing or horse trials) is an equestrian event where the same horse and rider combination compete against other competitors across the three disciplines of dressage, cross-country, and show jumping. This ...

team, after finishing 18th in the individual eventing competition. Kawecki was killed by Soviet forces in the

Katyn massacre The Katyn massacre was a series of mass killings under Communist regimes, mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish people, Polish military officer, military and police officers, border guards, and intelligentsia prisoners of war carried out by t ...

in April 1940, aged 37.

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1902 births 1940 deaths People from Husiatyn Polish male equestrians Event riders Olympic equestrians for Poland Equestrians at the 1936 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Poland Katyn massacre victims Olympic medalists in equestrian Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics Polish military personnel killed in World War II 20th-century Polish sportsmen {{Poland-equestrian-bio-stub