Kazimierz Laskowski (7 November 1899 – 20 October 1961) was a Polish fencer and military officer. He won a bronze medal in the team

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event at 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 1916, Laskowski joined the Polish Gymnastic Society "Sokół" in

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. He trained boxing, athletics and fencing. He won two

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Polish championships (1929, 1931), and one sabre Polish championship (1930). In the 1930s, he was a fencing and boxing coach at the Central Institute for Physical Exercise in Warsaw. Laskowski served since 1918 in the

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. He commanded a company of the Polish 95th Infantry Regiment during the German

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at the start of

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. Afterwards, he was held by the Germans in the Oflag IV-D,

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, Oflag XI-B,

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 ...

and

Oflag II-A Oflag II-A was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp located in the town of Prenzlau, Brandenburg, north of Berlin. It housed mainly Polish and Belgian officers. The camp, located just south of Prenzlau on the main road to Berlin, and was or ...

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* 1899 births 1961 deaths People from Troitsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast People from Troitsky Uyezd People from the Russian Empire of Polish descent Polish male fencers Olympic fencers for Poland Fencers at the 1928 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Poland Olympic medalists in fencing Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics Members of the Polish Gymnastic Society "Sokół" Polish people of the Polish–Soviet War Polish military personnel of World War II Polish prisoners of war Prisoners of Oflag II-C 20th-century Polish sportsmen {{Poland-fencing-bio-stub