Krzysztof Lepianka ( Polish Krzysztof Lepianka ; June 6, 1956 , Warsaw ) - Polish kayaker , played for the Polish team in the second half of the 1970s. Bronze and double silver medalist of the World Championships, participant in the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow , winner of many regattas of national and international significance.
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| A country |  Poland |
| Specialization | kayak , 10,000 m |
| Date of Birth | June 6, 1956 ( 63) |
| Place of Birth | Warsaw , Poland |
| Growth | 185 cm |
| Weight | 85 kg |
Biography
Krzysztof Lepyanka was born on June 6, 1956 in Warsaw . He began to actively engage in rowing in early childhood, was trained in the capital's sports club “Spuynia”.
He achieved his first serious success at the adult international level in 1977, when he joined the main squad of the Polish national team and attended the World Championships in Bulgaria's Sofia, where he brought the bronze dignity award won in the classification of four-seater kayaks at a distance of 10,000 meters. A year later, at the world championship in Yugoslav Belgrade, he took silver in the same discipline, a year later he repeated this achievement at similar competitions in the German Duisburg. Thanks to a series of successful performances, he was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow - as part of a two-seater crew, which also included rower Andrzej Klimaszewski , started a thousand meters in the first round and in the extra race, but still did not make it to the semifinal stage managed to.
Shortly after the Moscow Olympics, Lepyanka decided to end his sports career, giving way to young Polish rowers. Subsequently, he switched to coaching, worked as a kayaking and canoeing coach in the national teams of Canada, Australia and the USA.
Links
- Krzysztof Lepyanka - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- Krzysztof Lepyanka - medals at major international competitions
- Lists of kayaking and canoeing champions and prize winners (1936-2007 )