Rafał Hejmej

Rafał Hejmej
Full name	Rafał Dominik Hejmej
nation	Poland
birthday	July 15, 1980
place of birth	Bydgoszcz ,  Poland
size	188 cm
Weight	89 kg
Career
discipline	Rowing / belt
society	Zawisza Bydgoszcz
National squad	since 1997
status	active
Medal table
European championships 2 × 3 × 1 × Junior World Championship 0 × 1 × 0 ×
European championships silver 2007 Poznan Eighth bronze 2008 Athens Eighth silver 2010 Montemor-o-Velho Eighth gold 2011 Plovdiv Eighth gold 2012 Varese Eighth silver 2013 Seville Eighth  Junior World Championships silver 1998 Linz Foursome without a helmsman
Last change: September 16, 2015

Rafał Dominik Hejmej (born July 15, 1980 in Bydgoszcz , Poland ) is a Polish rower .

Career

Hejmej started rowing in 1995 and started two years later with a double start at the Junior World Championships in Hazewinkel . In the U19 eight he finished fifth and in the U19 four without the seventh place. The following year he also won a silver medal in a four-man without a helmsman at the Junior World Championships in Linz. After advancing to the senior age group, Hejmej started in 1999 and 2000 at the Nations Cup , the then unofficial world championships for the U23 age group, and finished 6th and 5th.

From 2001 onwards, Hejmej was able to offer himself for the Polish men's eighth by his first participation in the Rowing World Cup in a four-man without. In the Olympic cycle of Athens, he took part in the 2001 World Championships in Lucerne and in Seville in 2002 in this boat class, reaching the B final in each case. At the 2003 World Championships in the year before the Olympic Games, he slipped out of eight and instead started in a two-man without a helmsman . With Piotr Basta , however, it was only enough to win the D final and thus to 19th place overall. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Hejmej rowed again in the Polish eighth with Bogdan Zalewski , Piotr Buchalski , Mikołaj Burda , 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 Hejmej 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 Hejmej and the Polish eighth achieved first with the silver medal at the re-introduced European Championships in Poznan Podium placement. The qualification for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing also succeeded. In the occupation Sebastian Kosiorek, Michał Stawowski, Patryk Brzezinski , Sławomir Kruszkowski , Wojciech Gutorski, Marcin Brzezinski , Hejmej, batsman Mikolaj Burda and helmsman Daniel Trojanowski the Polish team reached the final and took there place 5. Similarly occupation was at the European Championships a few Weeks later also won the bronze medal.

Even after the games in China, Hejmej continued his career in the Polish eighth. He was able to win several European Championship medals and titles as a result. Hejmej won an EM silver medal in the Polish eighth at the 2010 European Championships after missing the team's EM victory the previous year. The Polish eighth won the European title fights in 2011 and 2012 with Hejmej on board. At the world championships they were not that successful and finished fourth in the 2009 championships in Poznan, eighth in 2010 and another fifth in the pre-Olympic season 2011 . Hejmej was able to take part in the Summer Olympics for the third time in 2012 as a regular in eighth place . In London, however, the team with Marcin Brzeziński, Piotr Juszczak , Mikołaj Burda, Piotr Hojka , Zbigniew Schodowski , Michał Szpakowski , Krystian Aranowski , Hejmej and helmsman Daniel Trojanowski missed the final and took 7th place.

Hejmej initially remained loyal to rowing and the Polish eighth, at the first European championships in the new Olympic cycle he won the silver medal. The World Championships in the same year finished the team in fourth place behind the selections from Great Britain, Germany and the United States. Hejmej had to leave eighth place for the 2014 season, so he missed the 2014 World Cup bronze medal in Amsterdam. Instead, he rowed in the four without a helmsman at the European Championships in 2014 and 2015, as well as at the World Championships in 2014, to back places. In the end , it was no longer used at the 2015 World Cup .

Hejmej starts for the Zawisza Bydgoszcz club in his hometown. At a height of 1.88 m, his competition weight is around 89 kg.

Web links

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