Rado Jerich ( Serb. Radoje ћerić ; December 28, 1991 , Trebinje ) is a Serbian rower , has been playing for the national rowing team of Serbia since 2011. Participant of the Summer Olympic Games in London, bronze medalist of the European Championships, bronze medalist of the World Youth Championships, winner and medalist of many regattas of national importance.
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| Serb. Happy eryeri | |
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| A country |  Serbia |
| Specialization | Four Ruleless |
| Club | Partizan ( Belgrade ) |
| Date of Birth | December 28, 1991 (age 27) |
| Place of Birth | Trebinje , Yugoslavia |
| Growth | 196 cm |
| Weight | 83 kg |
Biography
Radoe Jerich was born on December 28, 1991 in the city of Trebin, Yugoslavia (now the Republika Srpska , Bosnia and Herzegovina ). He began to actively engage in rowing at the age of fifteen in 2006, was trained in Belgrade at the Partizan rowing club in the capital.
The first serious success at the adult international level was achieved in the 2012 season, when he joined the main squad of the Serbian national team and visited the European Championship in the Italian Varez, from where he brought the bronze dignity award, won together with Milos Vasic , Milyan Vukovic and Goran Jagar in four-wheel drive . Thanks to a series of successful performances, he was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the London Summer Olympics - in the same composition in the same discipline, they took fifth place in the preliminary qualification stage, then showed the first result in a comforting qualifying race, became sixth at the semi-finals and got that to the consolation finale “B”. In the consolation finals, “B” finished fourth and, thus, settled down in the final protocol of the competition on the tenth line.
After the London Olympics, Jerich remained in the main composition of the rowing team of Serbia and continued to take part in major international regattas. So, in 2013, in wheelless deuces, he became a bronze medalist at the youth world championship in Ottensheim, Austria. He took part in the adult European championship in Poznan and the world championship in Eglebett-le-Lac , but was far from being among the winners. I tried to qualify for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in the four handless, but at the qualifying regatta in Swiss Lucerne managed to reach only the consolation stage, where he finished fifth.
Links
- Radoe Jerich - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- Radoe Jerich - profile on the FISA website