Jerzy Skolimowski coxed the bronze medal winning fours as well as the silver winning pairs at Los Angeles in 1932. In 1928 he coxed the Polish eights and in 1936, the pairs and fours. He also won a silver medal at the 1933 European Championships in the coxed pairs.
Skolimowski also participated in Los Angeles in the art competitions in the paintings category. He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at Warsaw University of Technology and became a well-known interior architect. He designed the interior of the Polish passenger liner MS Piłsudski and was co-designer of the Polish war cemetery at Monte Cassino in Italy. During World War II he fought in the Polish campaign against the Germans and later joined the Polish exile forces. He served in the Balkans as a Military Intelligence officer, where he prepared the Allied invasion. Skolimowski later immigrated to the United Kingdom, dying in London but he was buried in his home country.
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