Michał Stawowski
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Full name | Michał Stawowski | |||||||||
nation | Poland | |||||||||
birthday | January 11, 1983 | |||||||||
place of birth | Bydgoszcz , Poland | |||||||||
size | 192 cm | |||||||||
Weight | 95 kg | |||||||||
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discipline | Rowing / Skull , belt | |||||||||
society | AZS Toruń | |||||||||
National squad | since 1999 | |||||||||
status | resigned | |||||||||
End of career | 2009 | |||||||||
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Last change: September 18, 2015 |
Michał Stawowski (born January 11, 1983 in Bydgoszcz , Poland ) is a former Polish rower .
Career
Stawowski began rowing in 1995 at the young age of 12. As a junior, he was nominated three times as a sculler for the year- old world championships from 1999, never getting past participation in the C-final for 13th to 18th place. About the junior division in 2003, when he finished 5th in the U23 eighth place at the World Championships in Belgrade, Stawowski nevertheless developed into a candidate for the Polish national rowing team in the open age group.
In the Olympic year 2004 he rowed for the first time in the open eight at the Rowing World Cup . At the Olympic Summer Games , Stawowski was able to keep his place in the Polish eighth and start in Athens with Bogdan Zalewski , Piotr Buchalski , Rafał Hejmej , Dariusz Nowak , Wojciech Gutorski , Sebastian Kosiorek , Mikołaj Burda and helmsman Daniel Trojanowski . The team could not reach the final and finished 8th overall.
In the four years before the Beijing Games, the Polish eighth with Stawowski was able to regularly place in the A-final of the World Championships. At the 2005 World Championships in Japan, 5th place, the following year at the Rowing World Championships in Eton, 6th place. In Munich 2007 , another fifth place followed, and with the silver medal at the reintroduced European Championships in Poznan, Stawowski and the Polish eighth came first Podium placement. The qualification for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing also succeeded. In the line-up of Sebastian Kosiorek, Michał Stawowski, Patryk Brzeziński , Sławomir Kruszkowski , Wojciech Gutorski, Marcin Brzeziński , Rafał Hejmej, batsman Mikołaj Burda and helmsman Daniel Trojanowski, the Polish team reached the final and took fifth place in the European championship won the bronze medal a few weeks later.
In the new Olympic cycle there was a personal change in the Polish eighth, Stawowski was ousted by younger rowers. In 2009 he started again in two with helmsman with Dominik Kubiak and helmsman Daniel Trojanowski at the World Cup, but could not convince in this relatively unimportant boat class. For the world championships in his own country he was no longer considered, so that he ended his active career after 10 years in international rowing.
Stawowski started for the AZS Toruń club . With a height of 1.92 m, his competition weight was around 95 kg.
Web links
- Michał Stawowski at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
- Michał Stawowski in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
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SURNAME | Stawowski, Michał |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish rower |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 11, 1983 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bydgoszcz , Poland |