Piotr Markiewicz
Olympic athlete
1973 –
Who is Piotr Markiewicz?
Piotr Markiewicz is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s. At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, he won the bronze medal in the K-1 500 m event.
Known for his devastating sprint finish, Markiewicz won his first national champion 1993. Initially representing in the K-4 event, he won two medals in the K-4 events at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with silvers in 1993 and 1994.
Markiewicz's personality better suited him to the individual K-1 events where he won the K-1 200 m and K-1 500 m events at the 1995
As reigning world champion, he went to the 1996 Games as favorite in the K-1 500 m event, but did not live up to expectations. Markiewicz ended up settling for bronze in the K-1 500 m event after finishing fourth in the K-4 1000 m event.
After the Olympics, he won his last medal in 1999 with a silver medal in the K-4 200 m event. Markiewicz retired in 2001 after a car accident.
Markiewicz was a member of the Sparta Augustów club. He is 184 cm tall and raced at 84 kg.
For his sport achievements, he received:
Silver Cross of Merit in 1996.
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