He won gold medal at the 1986 World Wrestling Championships and was voted the Polish Sports Personality of the Year in 1986.

In 1979, he graduated from high school in Piaseczno and in 1999 from the AWF Gorzów Wielkopolski University.

He trained in the Elektronik Piaseczno sports club in the years 1972-79 and then he represented the CWKS Legia Warszawa (1979-1989).

He took part in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul representing Poland in the light heavyweight category (90 kg).

[2] He worked as an assistant to Ryszard Świerad during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta where athletes from Poland won five medals in wrestling including three golds.