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Jüri Jaanson
Estonian rower

Jüri Jaanson

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Estonian rower
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Estonia
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Rower Sports coach Athlete
Work field
Sports
Gender
Male
Star sign
LibraPeople who share this birthday
Birth
14 October 1965 People who share this birthday
Place of birth
Tartu, Tartu County, Estonia
Age
58 years
Politics:
Estonian Reform Party
Stats
Height:
192
Weight:
96
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Biography

Jüri Jaanson (born 14 October 1965 in Tartu) is the most successful Estonian rower of all time and the winner of five medals at World Rowing Championships. He became World Champion in Tasmania 1990 in the single sculls event. 14 years later, at age 38 he won an Olympic silver medal in the single sculls event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. In Beijing 2008 he won his second Olympic silver medal, this time in the double sculls event with Tõnu Endrekson. He is a member of the SK Pärnu rowing club located in Pärnu. In 2007, Jaanson became the oldest rower ever to win a World Cup event at the age of 41 in Amsterdam.

Jaanson had to overcome a particularly challenging childhood, brought on by a severe case of pneumonia at the age of 2. Doctors gave antibiotics which saved him, but which also left him almost completely deaf. He attended a school for the deaf until he obtained a primitive hearing aid at the age of 12, allowing him to attend a regular school. Still, being a loner, he struggled with fitting in. At Tartu University, when a coach introduced him to rowing, he took to it passionately, in fact so passionately that he left the University to focus on rowing. He wears hearing aids on a regular basis and was also seen wearing them during his rowing competitions.

Jaanson is among four athletes to compete in rowing at six Olympics, with Romanian Elisabeta Lipă in 2004, Canadian Lesley Thompson (cox) in 2008, and Australian James Tomkins.

On 18 November 2010, Jaanson announced ending his career. In July 2011 he was awarded with the Thomas Keller Medal, the highest honor in rowing.

He is also a member of the Estonian parliament, the Riigikogu for the Reform Party.

Olympic Games

  • 1988 Seoul – 8th Single sculls
  • 1992 Barcelona – 5th Single sculls
  • 1996 Atlanta – 18th Single sculls
  • 2000 Sydney – 6th Single sculls
  • 2004 Athens – Med 2.png Single sculls
  • 2008 Beijing – Med 2.png Double sculls (with Tõnu Endrekson)

World Championships

  • 1989 Bled, Yugoslavia – Med 3.png Single sculls
  • 1990 Tasmania, Australia – Med 1.png Single sculls
  • 1991 Vienna, Austria – 12th Single sculls
  • 1995 Tampere, Finland – Med 2.png Single sculls
  • 1997 Aiguebelette, France – 13th Single sculls
  • 1998 Cologne, Germany – 14th Single sculls
  • 1999 St. Catharines, Canada – 7th Single sculls
  • 2001 Luzerne, Switzerland – 7th Single sculls
  • 2003 Milan, Italy – 7th Single sculls
  • 2005 Gifu, Japan – Med 3.png Quadruple sculls (with Andrei Jämsä, Tõnu Endrekson and Leonid Gulov)
  • 2007 Munich, Germany – Med 3.png Double sculls (with Tõnu Endrekson)

European Championships

  • 2008 Marathon, Greece – Med 1.png Quadruple Sculls (with Tõnu Endrekson, Andrei Jämsä and Allar Raja)

Rowing World Cup

Overall wins

  • Single sculls: 1990, 1995
  • Quadruple sculls: 2005
  • Double sculls: 2007
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Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1930 to 1969

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Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1930 to 1969

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Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1930 to 1969

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Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1930 to 1969
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