Patryk Piasecki

Patryk Piasecki
Personal information
Nationality Poland
Born (1986-08-07) 7 August 1986 (age 38)
Mrągowo, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland
Height1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight66 kg (146 lb)
Sailing career
ClassDinghy
ClubAZS UWM Olsztyn

Patryk Piasecki (born 7 August 1986) is a Polish former sailor, who specialized in the two-person dinghy (470) class.[1] Together with his partner and eventual three-time Olympian Kacper Ziemiński, he was named one of the country's top sailors in the double-handed dinghy for the 2008 Summer Olympics, finishing in a lowly eighteenth place.[2] Piasecki also served as a senior member of the sailing roster at the University of Warmia and Mazury's sport academy in Olsztyn (Polish: AZS Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie).[3]

Piasecki competed for the Polish sailing squad, as a skipper in the men's 470 class, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.[2][4] Four months earlier, he and crew member Ziemiński topped the selection criteria to lock their own 470 berth for the Games, based on his aggregate scores in a lineup of international regattas sanctioned by the Polish Yachting Association.[5] The Polish pair managed to post a couple of top-ten scores throughout the opening regatta, but a random wave of substandard outcomes under windy conditions, however, denied their chances of entering the medal race, sitting both Piasecki and Ziemiński in nineteenth overall with 151 net points.[6]

  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Patryk Piasecki". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Patryk Piasecki i Kacper Ziemiński - kolejne zwycięstwo" [Another victory for Patryk Piasecki and Kacper Ziemiński]. zagle.se.pl (in Polish). Żagle. 23 June 2008. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  3. ^ Koronowski, Michał (13 November 2009). "Laser łódka stworzona dla Patryka Piaseckiego" [Laser boat for created for Patryck Piasecki]. olsztyn.wyborcza.pl (in Polish). Gazeta Wyborcza. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  4. ^ "Event Guide: Men's Two Person Dinghy – 470". World Sailing. 9 August 2008. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  5. ^ Piepiorka, Wojciech (24 April 2008). "Kacper Ziemiński z ChKŻ Chojnice pojedzie na Igrzyska Olimpijskie do Pekinu!" [Kacper Ziemińska from ChKŻ Chojnice will go to the Beijing Olympics]. warszawa.naszemiasto.pl (in Polish). Nasze Miasto.pl. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  6. ^ "Beijing 2008: Men's 470 Class". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 5 January 2014. Retrieved 13 September 2013.