Bartosz Piasecki

Bartosz Piasecki medal table
Bartosz Piasecki (2016)
fencing
Norway Norway
Olympic games
silver	London 2012	Sword
European Games
bronze	Baku 2015	Sword

Bartosz Mariusz Piasecki (born December 9, 1986 in Tczew , Poland ) is a Norwegian sword fencer .

Career

Bartosz Piasecki moved with his family to Norway in 1988, where he started fencing at the age of eight. The coach was his father Mariusz Piasecki , who competed for Norway at the 2002 World Cup . Piasecki's sister also took up fencing.

At the Olympic Games in London in 2012 he was in the battle for gold after winning against Yannick Borel in the quarter-finals and against Jung Jin-sun in the semifinals. There he met Rubén Limardo , who he was defeated by 10:15. For winning the silver medal, he received the Fearnleys olympiske ærespris award . In 2015 he won the bronze medal at the European Games after a semi-final defeat against Sergei Chodos .

Piasecki has a computer science degree from the University of Oslo .

Web links

Commons : Bartosz Piasecki - collection of images, videos and audio files

Bartosz Piasecki - Rankings and Results in the database of the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime (English / French)
Bartosz Piasecki in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Bartosz Piasecki. In: fie.org. Fédération Internationale d'Escrime , accessed on November 7, 2018 .
↑ Nina Berglund: Immigrant's son wins big in fencing. In: newsinenglish.no. August 2, 2012, accessed November 7, 2018 .
^ Pål Karstensen: Olympiske ærespriser til Strandli og Rung. In: dagsavisen.no. Dagsavisen , October 14, 2016, accessed November 7, 2018 (Norwegian).

personal data
SURNAME	Piasecki, Bartosz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Piasecki, Bartosz Mariusz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Norwegian sword fencer
DATE OF BIRTH	December 9, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tczew , Poland

[bio-1] Bartosz Piasecki. In: fie.org. Fédération Internationale d'Escrime , accessed on November 7, 2018 .

[2] Nina Berglund: Immigrant's son wins big in fencing. In: newsinenglish.no. August 2, 2012, accessed November 7, 2018 .

[3] Pål Karstensen: Olympiske ærespriser til Strandli og Rung. In: dagsavisen.no. Dagsavisen , October 14, 2016, accessed November 7, 2018 (Norwegian).