Franciszek Jan Bronikowski (25 February 1907 – 1 December 1964) was a Polish rower who competed in the

1928 Summer Olympics The 1928 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the IX Olympiad (), was an international multi-sport event that was celebrated from 28 July to 12 August 1928 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The city of Amsterdam had previously bid for ...

. In 1928 he won the bronze medal as member of the Polish boat in the coxed four event. He was born in

Bromberg Bydgoszcz is a city in northern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Kuyavia. Straddling the confluence of the Vistula River and its left-bank tributary, the Brda, the strategic location of Bydgoszcz has made it an inland ...

Province of Posen The Province of Posen (; ) was a Provinces of Prussia, province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1848 to 1920, occupying most of the historical Greater Poland. The province was established following the Greater Poland Uprising (1848), Poznań Uprisi ...

and died in

Milanówek Milanówek is a town and urban gmina, commune in central Poland, in the Grodzisk Mazowiecki County in the Masovian Voivodeship. Located near Warsaw, it is often considered an outlying suburb of the capital of Poland but is in fact an independent e ...

. Adam Bronikowski is his grandson.

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1907 births 1964 deaths Polish male rowers Olympic rowers for Poland Rowers at the 1928 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Poland Olympic medalists in rowing Rowers from Bydgoszcz Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics European Rowing Championships medalists 20th-century Polish sportsmen {{Poland-rowing-bio-stub