Michał Gajownik
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2002 Seville | C-4 1000 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2005 Zagreb | C-4 1000 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2005 Zagreb | C-4 500 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2000 Poznań | C2-200 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2005 Poznań | C4-500m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2005 Poznań | C4-1000 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2001 Milan | C4-200 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2001 Milan | C4-1000 m |
Michał Gajownik (15 December 1981 – 13 November 2009) was a Polish sprint canoer who competed from 2000 to 2006. He won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (C-4 1000 m: 2002, 2005) and a bronze (C-4 500 m: 2005). He was born in Chrzanów.
Gajownik won silver medal in C-1 500 m in Junior European Championships in 1998, after year became C-2 500 m Junior World Championships silver medalist. The following year, at age 19, he became senior European C-2 1000 m champion with Paweł Baraszkiewicz who became later a member of Posnania Poznań . At the Sydney Olympics, however, they finished in eighth place.
After Sydney, Gajownik concentrated on the four-man canoe. At the start of the 2003 season, however, he tested positive for nandrolone – same as Marcin Kobierski, twice medalist in C-2 1000 m. Both denied the charge but were given a two-year ban, which cost them a place at the 2004 Olympics.
Gajownik returned to competitive action in 2005. He was a member of the Posnania Poznań club until 2006. He was killed in a traffic collision on 13 November 2009 in Chrzanów.
References
[edit]- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-01-05)
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-11-09)
- Michał Gajownik training group at the Wayback Machine (archived November 9, 2006) (in Polish)
- Posnania Club (in Polish)
External links
[edit]- Michał Gajownik at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- 1981 births
- 2009 deaths
- Canoeists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic canoeists for Poland
- Doping cases in canoeing
- Polish male canoeists
- Polish sportspeople in doping cases
- Road incident deaths in Poland
- People from Chrzanów
- ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian
- Sportspeople from Lesser Poland Voivodeship
- Polish canoeist stubs