Daniel Jędraszko
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Biography
Daniel Jędraszko (born April 6, 1976 in Szczecin) is a Polish sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 1990s. He has been world champion four times in the Canadian canoe C-2 event with partner Paweł Baraszkiewicz.
They also won a C-2 500 m silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. The same year Jędraszko won his only European title to date (again in the C-2 500 m). However at the 2004 Athens games they underperformed and came away without a medal.
Injuries prevented him from competing in 2005 but in 2006 he formed a new C-2 partnership with Roman Rynkiewicz. They finished fifth at the world championships in Szeged, Hungary. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, they finished ninth in the C-2 500 m event. Jędraszko has a total of ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships.
Jędraszko is a member of the Posnania Poznań club. He is 192 cm (6'4") tall and weighs 93 kg (205 lb).
For hts sport achievements, he received: Golden Cross of Merit in 2000; Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (5th Class) in 2007.