Paweł Baraszkiewicz
Paweł Baraszkiewicz is a Polish sprint canoeist who has competed since the mid-1990s. He has been world champion four times in the Canadian canoe C-2 event with partner Daniel Jędraszko.
Baraszkiewicz debuted at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated in the first semifinal of the C-2 500 m event.
They also won a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney in the C-2 500 m event. That same year Baraskiewicz also won two C-2 gold medals at the European championships.
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Baraszkiewicz and Jedrasko disappointingly failed to win a medal. Baraszkiewicz publicly voiced his suspicion that some of their rivals were guilty of doping.
In 2005 Baraszkiewicz switched to the individual C-1 event, winning silver at the 2005 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships over 500 m.
2006 proved a frustrating season, with three fourth-place finishes in major C-1 finals. He did however pick up a world championship silver medal with Poland's four-man C-4 500 m crew. At the end of the season he again became Polish national C-1 champion over all three race distances.
Baraszkiewicz is a member of the Posnania Poznań club. He is 175 cm tall and weighs 80 kg. All told, he has earned as of 2010 a total of fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships.Awards
For hts sport achievements, he received:
Golden Cross of Merit in 2000;
Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta in 2007.
