Date of Birth: 
Place of Birth: Działdowo, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland
About Paweł Baraszkiewicz
- Pawel Baraszkiewicz (born May 20, 1977 in Dzialdowo) is a Polish sprint canoeist who has competed since the mid-1990s.
- He has been world champion four times in the Canadian canoe C-2 event with partner Daniel Jedraszko. Baraszkiewicz debuted at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated in the first semifinal of the C-2 500 m event. They also won a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney in the C-2 500 m event.
- That same year Baraskiewicz also won two C-2 gold medals at the European championships (in the 500 m with Jedrasko and also in the 1000 m with Michal Gajownik). At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Baraszkiewicz and Jedrasko disappointingly failed to win a medal.
- Baraszkiewicz publicly voiced his suspicion that some of their rivals were guilty of doping. In 2005 Baraszkiewicz switched to the individual C-1 event, winning silver at the 2005 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships over 500 m. 2006 proved a frustrating season, with three fourth-place finishes in major C-1 finals (European 200 m & 500 m and World Championship 500 m).
- He did however pick up a world championship silver medal with Poland's four-man C-4 500 m crew.
- At the end of the season he again became Polish national C-1 champion over all three race distances. Baraszkiewicz is a member of the Posnania Poznan club.
- He is 175 cm (5'9") tall and weighs 80 kg (196 lbs).
- All told, he has earned as of 2010 a total of fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships.
Read more at Wikipedia