He started his adventure with a conscious lifestyle as a teenage boy when he decided to transfer wrestling from the school bench to the mat at one of his teacher’s suggestion. This is how he came to the Racibórz Union, where he remained until the end of his sports career. The wrestler trained from the very beginning by the sweat of his brow, which of course paid off and allowed him to become European Junior Champion in 1987 and a year later to repeat success in the category of 18-year-olds. During his career in the Polish national team, he stood four times on the podium of the European Championships in Greco-Roman wrestling, including 1989 when he won a gold medal. He is a bronze medallist of the World Championships from 1990 and 1994, as well as a five-time Olympian, including the gold medallist of the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996 in the lightweight class. He won the Polish Championship 10 times: in featherweight (1989) and lightweight (1993-2001). From 2007-2015, coach of the Polish national team of wrestlers. Currently, the president and coach of teenagers at MKS “Unia” Racibórz. His life motto is: “It does not matter who you are, it is what you are like.” But his mission is: “Bringing up youth to the masters.”