Daniel Jędraszko

Daniel Jędraszko (born April 6, 1976 in Szczecin) is a Polish sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 1990s. He has been world champion four times in the canoe double (C2) event with partner Paweł Baraszkiewicz.

Daniel Jędraszko
Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 0 1 0
World Championships 4 4 2
European Championships 4 2 3
European Games 0 0 0
Total 8 6 5
Olympic Games
2000 SydneyC-2 500 m
World Championships
1999 MilanC-2 500 m
2001 PoznańC-2 200 m
2003 GainesvilleC-2 200 m
2003 GainesvilleC-2 500 m
1997 DartmouthC-2 500 m
1998 SzegedC-2 500 m
1999 MilanC-2 200 m
2001 PoznańC-2 500 m
1997 DartmouthC-4 1000 m
2002 SevilleC-4 500 m
European Championships
1997 PlovdivC2-500 m
1999 ZagrebC2-200 m
2000 PoznańC2-200 m
2000 PoznańC2-500 m
2001 Milan C2-200 m
2004 Poznań C2-500 m
1997 PlovdivC4-1000 m
2001 Milan C4-200 m
2004 Poznań C2-200m

They also won a C-2 500 m silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. The same year Jędraszko won his only European title to date (again in the C-2 500 m). However at the 2004 Athens games they underperformed and came away without a medal.

Injuries prevented him from competing in 2005 but in 2006 he formed a new C-2 partnership with Roman Rynkiewicz. They finished fifth at the world championships in Szeged, Hungary. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, they finished ninth in the C-2 500 m event. Jędraszko has a total of ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships.

Jędraszko is a member of the Posnania Poznań club. He is 192 cm (6'4") tall and weighs 93 kg (205 lb).

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

References

  • ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-01-05)
  • ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-11-09)
  • Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Daniel Jędraszko". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2009-03-18.


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