Piotr Buchalski

Piotr Buchalski
Full name	Piotr Buchalski
nation	Poland
birthday	March 4th 1981
place of birth	Plock ,  Poland
size	191 cm
Weight	85 kg
Career
discipline	Rowing / belt
society	Plockie TW
National squad	since 1998
status	resigned
End of career	2009
Medal table
European championships 0 × 1 × 1 × Junior World Championship 1 × 0 × 0 ×
European championships silver 2007 Poznan Eighth bronze 2008 Athens Eighth  Junior World Championships gold 1999 Plovdiv Eighth
Last change: September 19, 2015

Piotr Buchalski (born March 4, 1981 in Płock , Poland ) is a former Polish rower .

Career

Buchalski began rowing in 1997. He gained his first international experience at the junior world championships the year after, where he finished 10th with the Polish U19 eighth. As an 18-year-old he was able to compete in the rowing world cup for the first time , he was used as a lightweight in eighth in Hazewinkel , Belgium , and promptly won a silver medal. In the same year he won the gold medal at the Junior World Championships in Plovdiv in the Polish junior eighth in the open weight class. After reaching the senior age class, Buchalski rowed eighth at the U23 World Championships in 2000 and finished fifth in the A final.

After a season without participation in international regattas, Buchalski was able to establish himself as a permanent fixture in the Polish men's eight in 2002. In the Olympic cycle of Athens he took part several times in the World Cup as well as the World Championships in Seville in 2002 and in Milan in 2003 . The team reached the B final in each of the championships. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Buchalski also rowed in the Polish eighth with Mikołaj Burda , Bogdan Zalewski , Rafał Hejmej , Dariusz Nowak , Wojciech Gutorski , Sebastian Kosiorek , Michał Stawowski 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 Buchalski was able to regularly place in the A-final of the World Championships. At the 2005 World Championships in Japan 5th place was occupied, the following year at the World Rowing Championships in Eton 6th place in Munich in 2007 was followed by another fifth place and the silver medal in the reimported European Championships in the home poses succeeded Buchalski and the Polish aft the first Podium placement. In the 2008 Olympic season he was used three times at the World Cup, but then not taken into account for the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing. At the European Championships in Athens in 2009 a few weeks later, Buchalski was allowed to return to the Polish top team and with this he was able to win an EM bronze medal.

After the Olympic Games in Beijing, the large Polish boat underwent a major change in personnel. Buchalski couldn't find a way back, but started another year in the four without a helmsman . He ended his active career in rowing with an 11th place at the world championships in his native Poznan.

Buchalski started for the Płockie TW association . With a height of 1.91 m, his competition weight was around 85 kg.

Web links

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