POSNIK Szymon

World Championships

Year	Location	4x
2019	Linz, AUT	2
2018	Plovdiv, BUL	6

European Championships

Year	Location	4x
2021	Varese, ITA	4
2020	Poznan, POL	5
2019	Lucerne, SUI	7
2018	Glasgow, GBR	3

World Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
1	Quadruple Sculls	2019	Rotterdam, NED	6:00.80
1	Quadruple Sculls	2019	Poznan, POL	6:01.01
2	Quadruple Sculls	2021	Zagreb, CRO	5:49.03
3	Quadruple Sculls	2018	Lucerne, SUI	5:45.33
4	Quadruple Sculls	2021	Sabaudia, ITA	5:46.14
4	Quadruple Sculls	2021	Lucerne, SUI	5:55.02
4	Double Sculls	2019	Plovdiv, BUL	6:36.93
6	Quadruple Sculls	2018	Linz, AUT	5:46.69
8	Double Sculls	2018	Belgrade, SRB	6:20.40

Legend
DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, EXC - Excluded

Reading books, cycling, winter sports. (worldrowing.com, 01 Oct 2019)

Athlete

Mechatronical Engineering - Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

Partner Weronika Jagodzinska

English, Polish

AZS AWF Warszawa [Poland]

Aleksander Wojciechowski [national], POL

His partner Weronika Jagodzinska has also competed in rowing. She represented Poland at the 2017 U23 World Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, and won bronze in quadruple sculls at the 2018 U23 European Championships in Brest, Belarus. (worldrowing.com, 01 Jan 2017; Facebook profile, 01 Feb 2020; SportsDeskOnline, 06 May 2020)

In 2010 he was diagnosed with exostosis [a bone spur] that affected the tibia and fibula bones in his leg. He underwent surgery during which an artery and nerves were damaged, and he lost four and a half litres of blood on the operating table. He has poor blood circulation and limited movement in the leg as a result, and in 2011 he underwent tendon extension surgery to improve the range of motion in his foot. (placpolitechniki1.wordpress.com, 19 Nov 2019)

He took up rowing in 2008. (pw.edu.pl, 19 Nov 2019)

"My dad was a canoeing coach. He never pushed me to train in canoeing, but encouraged me to take up any sport. I wanted to do pole vault, but there was no section for my age group. Later, I tried volleyball, but I was not good at it. There was also table tennis, but I was not successful, because I was not fully engaged. Finally, at age 15, I decided to train in something seriously. It's late to start a sport career at this age, so I didn't have much choice. My dad suggested rowing, so I tried it. In my first year of training I won silver in the coxless four at the Polish Youth Olympics, and I stayed in the sport." (placpolitechniki1.wordpress.com, 19 Nov 2019)

To win a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (placpolitechniki1.wordpress.com, 19 Nov 2019)

He has 12 training sessions over seven days each week. (placpolitechniki1.wordpress.com, 19 Nov 2019)

Winning silver in quadruple sculls at the 2019 World Championships in Linz Ottensheim, Austria. (pw.edu.pl, 19 Nov 2019)