Daniel Trojanowski

Daniel Trojanowski
Full name	Daniel Dawid Trojanowski
nation	Poland
birthday	July 24, 1982
place of birth	Brodnica ,  Poland
size	168 cm
Weight	55 kg
Career
discipline	Rowing / helmsman
society	AZS Toruń Zawisza Bydgoszcz
National squad	since 1999
status	active
Medal table
World championships 1 × 0 × 1 × European championships 3 × 4 × 1 × U23 world championships 0 × 0 × 1 × Junior World Championship 1 × 0 × 0 ×
World championships gold 2007 Munich Two with a helmsman bronze 2014 Amsterdam Eighth  European championships silver 2007 Poznan Eighth bronze 2008 Athens Eighth gold 2009 Brest Eighth silver 2010 Montemor-o-Velho Eighth gold 2011 Plovdiv Eighth gold 2012 Varese Eighth silver 2013 Seville Eighth silver 2017 Račice u Štětí Eighth  U23 world championships bronze 2001 Linz Eighth  Junior World Championships gold 1999 Plovdiv Eighth
Last change: May 29, 2017

Daniel Dawid Trojanowski (born July 24, 1982 in Brodnica , Poland ) is a Polish helmsman in rowing .

Career

Trojanowski began rowing in 1998. He quickly came into question as a helmsman for international competitions and already started the following year in two boat classes at the Junior World Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. With the junior eight he won a gold medal here. In 2000 Trojanowski only drove eighth at the U19 World Cup, he was able to take fifth place. After advancing to the adult class, he also won a bronze medal at the U23 world regatta in 2001.

In the 2001 season, Trojanowski established himself at the age of 19 as the helmsman of the eight in the open age group. He made the leap into the newly formed team via the Rowing World Cup and steered it at the 2001 World Championships in Lucerne, 2002 in Seville and 2003 in Milan. The team reached the B final. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Trojanowski also drove the Polish eighth with Bogdan Zalewski , Piotr Buchalski , Rafał Hejmej , Dariusz Nowak , Wojciech Gutorski , Sebastian Kosiorek , Michał Stawowski and Mikołaj Burda . The team did not reach the final and took 8th place overall.

In the four years before the Beijing Games, the Polish eighth with helmsman Trojanowski was able to regularly place in the A-final of the World Championships. At the World Championships in Japan in 2005 , he took 5th place, the following year at the World Rowing World Championships in Eton, 6th place. In Munich 2007 , a further fifth place followed with eighth place. In the last year he also drove Dawid Pacześ and Łukasz Kardas in two with helmsman to the world title. A little later, Trojanowski also won his first silver medal at the re-introduced European championships in his native Poznan.

The Polish eighth qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics thanks to the World Cup result in Munich. In the occupation Sebastian Kosiorek, Michał Stawowski, Patryk Brzezinski , Sławomir Kruszkowski , Wojciech Gutorski, Marcin Brzezinski , Rafał Hejmej, batsman Mikolaj Burda and helmsman Daniel Trojanowski the team reached the final and took there place 5. Similarly occupation was at the European Championships a few Weeks later also won the bronze medal.

Trojanowski remained loyal to rowing and the Polish eighth and was able to win several EM medals and titles as a result. At the European Championships in Belarus in 2009 , the team became European champions for the first time, followed by an EM silver medal in 2010 . The European title fights in 2011 and 2012 also won the Polish eighth with Trojanowski at the wheel. At the world championships they were not that successful and finished fourth in the 2009 championships in Poznan, eighth in 2010 and another fifth in the pre-Olympic season 2011 . Trojanowski was able to take part in the Summer Olympics for the third time in 2012 as a regular in eighth place . In London, the team with Marcin Brzezinski, missed Piotr Juszczak , Mikolaj Burda, Piotr Hojka , Zbigniew Schodowski , Michał Szpakowski , Krystian Aranowski , Rafał Hejmej and helmsman Trojanowski however, the final and was ranked seventh is the only this team Trojanowski was also at the World Championships of the non-Olympic boat classes used, but he could not win a medal in either the two with or the lightweight eight.

Even after the games in Great Britain, Trojanowski continued his career in the Polish eighth. At the 2013 European Championships , he achieved silver. At the 2014 World Championships , Trojanowski also won his second World Cup medal with third place. With three fourth places at the 2013 World Championships and the 2014 and 2015 European Championships , the Polish eighth narrowly missed further medal placements. The 2015 World Rowing Championships on the French Lac d'Aiguebelette were disappointing , where the team controlled by Trojanowski only achieved 8th place and missed direct qualification for the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. After qualifying in Lucerne in May 2016, the Polish eighth finished fifth at the 2016 Olympic Games .

In May 2017 the Polish eighth with Trojanowski won the silver medal at the 2017 European Championships behind the Germans .

From 2001 to 2016 Daniel Trojanowski took part in all world championship and European championship title fights as well as in all Olympic rowing regattas in the men's eighth. He also competed in 39 regattas of the Rowing World Cup until 2016.

Trojanowski starts for the clubs AZS Toruń and Zawisza Bydgoszcz . At a height of 1.68 m, his competition weight is 55 kg, the usual value for helmsmen.

Web links

• Daniel Trojanowski at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Daniel Trojanowski in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )