Paweł Baraszkiewicz

Paweł Baraszkiewicz (born May 20, 1977, in Działdowo) is a Polish sprint canoeist who has competed since the mid-1990s. He has been world champion four times in the Canadian canoe C-2 event with partner Daniel Jędraszko.

Paweł Baraszkiewicz
Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 0 1 0
World Championships 4 6 4
European Championships 5 5 4
European Games 0 0 0
Total 3 0 2
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place2000 SydneyC-2 500 m
World Championships
Gold medal – first place1999 MilanC-2 500 m
Gold medal – first place2001 PoznańC-2 200 m
Gold medal – first place2003 GainesvilleC-2 200 m
Gold medal – first place2003 GainesvilleC-2 500 m
Silver medal – second place1997 DartmouthC-2 500 m
Silver medal – second place1998 SzegedC-2 500 m
Silver medal – second place1999 MilanC-2 200 m
Silver medal – second place2001 PoznańC-2 500 m
Silver medal – second place2005 ZagrebC-1 500 m
Silver medal – second place2006 SzegedC-4 500 m
Bronze medal – third place1997 DartmouthC-4 1000 m
Bronze medal – third place2007 DuisburgC-2 1000 m
Bronze medal – third place2010 PoznańC-2 200 m
Bronze medal – third place2010 PoznańC-1 4 x 200 m
European Championships
Gold medal – first place1997 PlovdivC2-500 m
Gold medal – first place1999 ZagrebC2-200 m
Gold medal – first place2000 PoznańC2-200 m
Gold medal – first place2000 PoznańC2-500 m
Gold medal – first place2000 PoznańC2-1000 m
Silver medal – second place 2001 Milan C2-200 m
Silver medal – second place 2004 Poznań C2-500 m
Silver medal – second place 2004 Poznań C2-200 m
Silver medal – second place 2005 Poznań C1-500 m
Silver medal – second place2011 BelgradeC-1 500 m
Bronze medal – third place1997 PlovdivC4-1000 m
Bronze medal – third place1999 ZagrebC1-1000 m
Bronze medal – third place 2001 Milan C4-200 m
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Milan C2-1000 m

Baraszkiewicz debuted at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated in the first semifinal of the C-2 500 m event.

They also won a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney in the C-2 500 m event. That same year Baraskiewicz also won two C-2 gold medals at the European championships (in the 500 m with Jedrasko and also in the 1000 m with Michał Gajownik).

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Baraszkiewicz and Jedrasko disappointingly failed to win a medal. Baraszkiewicz publicly voiced his suspicion that some of their rivals were guilty of doping.

In 2005 Baraszkiewicz switched to the individual C-1 event, winning silver at the 2005 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships over 500 m.

2006 proved a frustrating season, with three fourth-place finishes in major C-1 finals (European 200 m & 500 m and World Championship 500 m). He did however pick up a world championship silver medal with Poland's four-man C-4 500 m crew. At the end of the season he again became Polish national C-1 champion over all three race distances.

Baraszkiewicz is a member of the Posnania Poznań club. He is 175 cm (5'9") tall and weighs 80 kg (196 lbs). All told, he has earned as of 2010 a total of fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships.

Awards

For hts sport achievements, he received:
Golden Cross of Merit Golden Cross of Merit in 2000;
Knight's Cross Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (5th Class) in 2007.

References
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