UDAM Juri-Mikk

Olympic Games

Year	Location	2x
2012	London, GBR	13

World Championships

Year	Location	2x
2019	Linz, AUT	23
2017	Sarasota, FL, USA	20

European Championships

Year	Location	2x	4x
2021	Varese, ITA	-	3
2020	Poznan, POL	-	4
2019	Lucerne, SUI	-	8
2018	Glasgow, GBR	13	-

World Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
1	Quadruple Sculls	2021	Zagreb, CRO	5:48.03
10	Quadruple Sculls	2018	Lucerne, SUI	6:00.76
17	Double Sculls	2019	Rotterdam, NED	6:42.50
18	Double Sculls	2018	Belgrade, SRB	7:01.46

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

Reading, playing piano. (Athlete, 23 Jul 2021)

Athlete, Teacher

Mechanical Engineering - Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

English, Estonian, Russian

Tallinna Soudeklubi [Estonia]

Veikko Sinisalo [national], FIN

He sustained a back injury in 2014 that took him two years to fully recover from. (Athlete, 23 Jul 2021)

He began rowing at age 14 at Lake Harku in Tallinn, Estonia. (Athlete, 23 Jul 2021; soudeklubi.ee, 10 Oct 2020)

He was inspired to take up the sport after watching Estonian rowers Tonu Endrekson and Juri Jaanson win a silver medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. His father encouraged him to try the sport for himself, and his first training sessions were in a four-man boat on Lake Harku in Tallinn. "Then I really fell in love with rowing." (Athlete, 23 Jul 2021; soudeklubi.ee, 10 Oct 2020)

To win a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (reporter.elu24.ee, 16 May 2021)

Winning a bronze medal at the 2021 European Championships in Varese, Italy. (Athlete, 23 Jul 2021)

His father. (Athlete, 23 Jul 2021)

Coaches Veikko Sinisalo and Reet Palm-Killing. (Athlete, 23 Jul 2021)

He follows the same stretching routine before every race. (Athlete, 23 Jul 2021)

"Don't focus on the things you can't control, instead focus on the things you can." (Athlete, 23 Jul 2021)

In 2012 he was named Estonian Sportsman of the Year. (gocrimson.com, 01 Sep 2017)

In 2012 he was named Sportsman of the Year by the Estonian Rowing Federation. (gocrimson.com, 01 Sep 2017)

In 2012 he was named Young Sportsman of the Year in Tallinn, Estonia. (gocrimson.com, 01 Sep 2017)