Igor Boraska

Igor Boraska (born September 26, 1970 in Split ) is a former Croatian rower who, together with Tihomir Franković and helmsman Milan Razov, won the first gold medal at the rowing world championships for Croatia in 1994 in a pair with helmsman .

Athletic career

Boraska, Franković and Razov took fifth place in the two-man team at the 1993 World Championships and were just over a second behind the German boat in third place. At the 1994 World Championships in Indianapolis, the Croatians won with eight tenths of a second ahead of the Italian two-man. In 1995 in Tampere Boraska finished thirteenth with the Croatian eighth . At the 1996 Olympic Games he placed seventh with the four without a helmsman as the winner of the B final.

In 1997, Boraska and Tihomir Franković won the World Cup in Munich in a double without a helmsman . After two fifth places in the other two World Cup regattas, the two Croatians only took fifth place in the B final and thus 11th overall at the World Championships . At the 1998 World Championships in Cologne , Denis Boban , Igor Boraska, Tihomir Franković, Siniša Skelin and helmsman Ratko Cvitanić won the silver medal behind the Australian boat in a four with helmsman . At the 1999 World Championships , the four rowers tried to qualify without their helmsman in the Olympic boat class four without a helmsman for the 2000 Olympic Games, which did not succeed with reaching the C-final.

In the 2000 season, the Croatian eighth won the first World Cup regatta. At the Olympic Games in Sydney, the British won ahead of the Australians, the Croatians with Igor Francetić , Tihomir Franković, Tomislav Smoljanović , Nikša Skelin , Siniša Skelin, Krešimir Čuljak , Igor Boraska, Branimir Vujević and helmsman Silvijo Petriško received the bronze medal. In the following year, the Croatian eighth with Oliver Martinov , Damir Vučičić , Tomislav Smoljanović, Nikša Skelin, Siniša Skelin, Krešimir Čuljak, Igor Boraska, Branimir Vujević and Silvijo Petriško won the silver medal behind the Romanians at the World Championships in Lucerne .

In 2002 Boraska returned to the four-man team, with Igor Boraska, Oliver Martinov, Ivan Jukic , Ninoslav Saraga and helmsman Luka Travas, who won the bronze medal behind the British and the Germans at the World Championships in Seville . In 2003 Boraska sat in the Croatian eighth place, which after three A-finals in the World Cup at the World Championships in Milan finished only ninth. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens he rowed in a four-man without a helmsman , but with the last place in the B-final, he was only twelfth. After a two-year break, Boraska returned to the regatta courses in 2007, his only finish in the final was fifth place with eighth at the 2008 European Championships .

The 1.90 m tall Igor Boraska rowed for HVK Gusar from his hometown of Split.

Web links

• Igor Boraska in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Igor Boraska at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )