Juraj Tarr

Juraj Tarr (2015)

Juraj Tarr (born February 18, 1979 in Komárno , Czechoslovakia ) is a Slovak canoeist who won silver twice at the Olympic Games and was world champion four times.

Career

The 1.90 m tall Juraj Tarr first took part in the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000. Together with Richard Riszdorfer , Róbert Erban and Erik Vlček , he took fourth place in a four- person kayak over 1000 meters.

Only after the Olympic Games in 2004 Juraj Tarr was able to assert himself permanently in the Slovak national team. At the 2005 World Championships he competed in a four-man kayak over 500 meters and won the silver medal behind the Belarusians together with Michal Riszdorfer , Andrej Wiebauer and Róbert Erban. Two years later at the 2007 World Championships in Duisburg the Slovak four-man with Richard and Michal Riszdorfer, Erik Vlček and Juraj Tarr won the bronze medal over 1000 meters behind the Germans and the Poles. The Slovaks won over 500 meters ahead of the Belarusians. At the Olympic Games in Beijing, the Belarusians won over 1000 meters ahead of the Slovaks in the 2007 occupation and the Germans.

In 2009 at the World Championships in Dartmouth the Riszdorfers, Vlček and Tarr won over 1000 meters bronze behind Belarus and France and over 200 meters silver behind Belarus. In 2010 in Poznan , the Slovak four-man missed the final. In 2011 in Szeged the Riszdorfers, Vlček and Tarr finished fourth again over 1000 meters. At the 2012 Olympic Games in London, the four-person kayak with Peter Gelle , Martin Jankovec , Juraj Tarr and Erik Vlček was the sixth boat to reach the destination.

After a less than successful 2013, Tarr and Vlček won the bronze medal in the two-man kayak over 1000 meters behind the boats from Germany and France at the 2014 European Championships . At the World Championships in Moscow, they won both over 500 meters and over 1000 meters. In 2015 the two won silver at the European Championships over 500 meters behind the Germans . Three and a half months later, the two finished fourth over 1000 meters at the World Championships in Milan . The Slovak four-man with Denis Myšák , Erik Vlček, Juraj Tarr and Tibor Linka won over 1000 meters ahead of the Hungarians and the Czechs.

Juraj Tarr 2016 in Rio de Janeiro

The four-man competed in the same line-up at the 2016 European Championships . The Slovaks won over 1000 meters in front of the Russians and the Poles, over 500 meters the Slovaks received silver behind the Hungarians. At the 2016 Olympic Regatta in Rio de Janeiro , Tarr finished eighth in a two-person kayak over 1000 meters together with Erik Vlček. The Germans won in the four-man kayak, behind them Denis Myšák, Erik Vlček, Juraj Tarr and Tibor Linka won the silver medal in front of the Czechs.

In 2018 at the World Championships in Montemor , the German boat won in a four-kayak over 1000 meters ahead of the Slovak four with Gábor Jakubík , Erik Vlček, Juraj Tarr and Samuel Baláž .

Juraj Tarr started for the ŠKP Bratislava club .

Web links

Commons : Juraj Tarr  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Juraj Tarr in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Juraj Tarr at canoeicf.com