Background
Żytkowicz was born in Zakopane.
Żytkowicz was born in Zakopane.
As a soldier he took part at the military patrol demonstration events of the 1928 and 1936 Winter Olympics. The team of 1928 placed seventh and the team of 1936 placed ninth. He placed third at the Polish national championship of ski jumping from 1927 to 1930 in a row and participated in the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1929.
He made his way to French-administered Syria, where the Polish forces regrouped as the Independent Carpathian Brigade, later crossing into British-administered Palestine when France capitulated to Germany.
He saw action at Tobruk, Libya, and served in the Italian campaign against Germany as part of the Polish Second Corps under General Władysław Anders. After the end of hostilities, he managed to smuggle his young family out of Soviet-occupied Poland to Italy, and together they were transferred with the Polish Army to England, where he was demobilized.
He was member of the SN Ministry of Posts, Telegraphs & Telephones, France-1907 Klub Sportowy Kemping Zakopane, and primarily competed in the B-Class in 1923.