Raman Piatrushenka
Canoe Sprint, Olympic athlete
1980 –
Who is Raman Piatrushenka?
Raman Piatrushenka is a Belarusian sprint canoer who has competed since 2000. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold, one silver and two bronzes.
Piatrushenka's first success on the international stage came at the 2000 European under-23 Championships in Boulogne, France as a member of the Belarus K-4 crew which won both the 500 m and 1000 m gold medals.
One by one, the members of the under-23 crew were being promoted to the Belarus senior boat. In 2001 however, Piatrushenka destroyed a field of more experienced paddlers to become Belarus K-1 national champion. Now wishing to concentrate on the K-1, he initially refused to join the senior K-4 crew as the coaches had planned.
At the 2001 European championships in Milan he was persuaded to enter the K-4 races, winning his first senior medals – the 500 m and 1000 m bronze. In the K-1 1000m however, he could only finish 17th.
At the 2002 European under-23 Championships in Zagreb he won the K-1 1000 m gold medal, as well as retaining both K-4 titles. Having rejoined the senior K-4 crew on a permanent basis he won his first world championship medal, the K-4 1000 m silver, in Seville.
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- Born
- Dec 25, 1980
Kalinkavichy - Children
- Ethnicity
- Belarusians
- Nationality
- Belarus
- Profession
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on July 23, 2013
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