Wojciech Gutorski

Wojciech Gutorski
Full name	Wojciech Robert Gutorski
nation	Poland
birthday	May 25, 1982
place of birth	Bydgoszcz ,  Poland
size	197 cm
Weight	92 kg
Career
discipline	Rowing / belt
society	Bydgostia Bydgoszcz
National squad	since 1999
status	active
Medal table
European championships 1 × 2 × 1 × Junior World Championship 1 × 1 × 0 ×
European championships silver 2007 Poznan Eighth bronze 2008 Athens Eighth gold 2009 Brest Eighth silver 2013 Seville Two without a helmsman  Junior World Championships gold 1999 Plovdiv Eighth silver 2000 Zagreb Two without a helmsman
Last change: September 17, 2015

Wojciech Robert Gutorski (born May 25, 1982 in Bydgoszcz , Poland ) is a Polish rower .

Career

Gutorski began rowing in 1997. As a 17-year-old he was able to compete for the first time in the Rowing World Cup , he was used in 1999 as a lightweight in eighth in Hazewinkel , Belgium , and promptly won a silver medal. In the same year he won the gold medal in the Polish junior eighth in the open weight class at the U19 World Championships in Plovdiv. In 2000 a silver medal followed at the Junior World Championships in two without a helmsman together with Mikołaj Burda .

By reaching the senior class, Gutorski was able to establish himself as a fixture in the Polish men's eight from 2001. In the Olympic cycle of Athens he took part in the 2001 World Championships in Lucerne, in Seville in 2002 and in Milan in 2003 . The team reached the B final. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens Gutorski also rowed in the Polish eighth with Bogdan Zalewski , Piotr Buchalski , Rafał Hejmej , Dariusz Nowak , Mikołaj Burda, 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 Gutorski was able to regularly place in the A-final of the World Championships. At the World Championships in Japan in 2005 , he took 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, Gutorski 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.

Gutorski remained loyal to rowing and the Polish eighth for another year. At the European Championships in Belarus in 2009 , the team became European champions for the first time and in the same year they finished fourth at the World Championships in Poznan, Poland. For the 2010 season Gutorski was once again used in eighth place in the Rowing World Cup, but after that he slipped out of the selection and only started again in 2011 in an international four without a helmsman . In the Olympic season Gutorski formed a two without a helmsman with Jarosław Godek . In the qualifying regatta for the Summer Olympics in London in May 2012, the duo was able to secure participation for Poland and finally also take part in the Olympic competitions. On Dorney Lake they finished 10th. A few weeks later Gutorski and Godek rowed to fifth place at the European Championships in Varese.

After increasingly younger rowers found space in the Polish eighth by 2012, Gutorski was unable to return to the big boat. He continued rowing with Godek in two-without and won the silver medal at the 2013 European Championships behind the boat from Serbia. The two finished the final of the world championships in Chungju, South Korea, in fifth place. Since Godek increasingly withdrew from the sport of rowing, Gutorski switched to the four-man without and took penultimate place at the European Championships in 2014 .

Gutorski starts for the Bydgostia Bydgoszcz association . At a height of 1.97 m, his competition weight is around 92 kg.

Web links

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