Jarosław Godek

Jarosław Godek
Full name	Jarosław Godek
nation	Poland
birthday	5th August 1981
place of birth	Szubin ,  Poland
size	194 cm
Weight	97 kg
Career
discipline	Rowing / belt
society	AZS AWFiS Gdańsk Bydgostia cable
National squad	since 2002
status	resigned
End of career	2014
Medal table
European championships 1 × 2 × 0 ×
European championships gold 2009 Brest Eighth silver 2010 Montemor-o-Velho Eighth silver 2013 Seville Two without a helmsman
Last change: September 19, 2015

Jarosław Godek (born August 5, 1981 in Szubin , Poland ) is a former Polish rower .

Career

Godek started rowing in 1999. In the junior age class he could not qualify for the world championships, so that he only gained international experience in 2002 at the age of 21 at the then unofficial U23 World Cup in the Polish youth eighth. In Genoa, the selection took seventh place.

In the following year Godek moved up to the national team of the open age group, also started for the first time in the rowing World Cup in a four-man without a helmsman . He was able to establish himself in this boat class and later rowed at the World Championships in Milan, where he finished ninth. In the same line-up as in the previous year with Mariusz Daniszewski , Artur Rozalski and Rafał Smoliński , the team also competed in the 2004 Olympic season. With an increase in performance, it was able to reach the finals at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and take 6th place among 13 participating teams.

In the new Olympic cycle, too, Godek was initially in the four-without, which, however , was regularly weaker than the Polish eighth . At the 2005 World Championships , he finished 11th, the following year only 14th. From the 2007 season, Godek rowed with Piotr Hojka in two without a helmsman . The duo finished 7th at the World Championships in Munich and won the silver medal at the re-introduced European Championships in Poznan, Poland. In Beijing, Godek and Hojka also competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics , but they could only row 14th and last place. The European Championships a few weeks later they finished in sixth place.

As a result, Godek switched a lot between the different oarring boats in Polish rowing. In 2009 he was tested in the eighth position , which was then subject to a change in personnel. At the World Championships in Poland Godek was used again in the four-without, where only the 11th place was occupied. At the European Championships in the same year, Godek made it into eighth, who won the European title in Brest, Belarus. In 2010 he made the leap into eighth late, won silver at the European Championships and finished 8th at the World Cup in New Zealand .

The 2011 season, on the other hand, was disappointing. Godek was only used in the World Cup, but not in international championships. In the 2012 Olympic season he formed a two-without with Wojciech Gutorski , who was also no longer considered for eighth. The two were able to secure the not yet secured starting place for Poland in this boat class at the Olympic Summer Games in London on the Lucerne qualification regatta. At the Olympic rowing regatta on Dorney Lake , Godek reached the B-final on his third participation in the Olympics and placed with Gutorski in 10th place overall. A little later, 5th place followed at the European Championships in Varese in the same composition.

Godek went into the new Olympic cycle with Gutorski in two-without. At the 2013 European Championships , they won the silver medal behind the boat from Serbia. The two finished the final of the world championships in Chungju, South Korea, in fifth place. In the following season Godek retired from international rowing after participating in the C-final at the World Cup.

Godek started for the AZS AWFiS Gdańsk association . At a height of 1.94 m, his competition weight was around 97 kg.

Web links

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