Janusz Karweta (born March 20, 1988 in

Oświęcim Oświęcim (; german: Auschwitz ; yi, אָשפּיצין, Oshpitzin) is a city in the Lesser Poland ( pl, Małopolska) province of southern Poland, situated southeast of Katowice, near the confluence of the Vistula (''Wisła'') and Soła rive ...

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) is a

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former competitive

pair skater Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating a ...

. He competed with

Krystyna Klimczak Krystyna Klimczak (born 24 September 1992 in Oświęcim, Poland) is a Polish former competitive figure skater who competed as a single skater and pair skater. As a pair skater, she competed with Janusz Karweta. They were the 2007 Polish natio ...

. They are the 2007 Polish national silver medalists. They have competed internationally on the junior level at both Junior Grand Prix events and at the

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and received the host wildcard entry to the 2007-2008 Junior Grand Prix Final, where they placed 9th. He also competed as a singles skater at the national level. Although they placed ninth on the day, they were later moved up a spot to an eighth-place finish at the 2007-2008 Junior Grand Prix Final following the retroactive disqualification of first-place-finishers

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Yuri Larionov Yuri Yuryevich Larionov (russian: link=no, Юрий Юрьевич Ларионов, born 19 August 1986) is a Russian pair skater. With former partner Vera Bazarova, he is the 2012–13 Grand Prix Final silver medalist, a three-time European m ...

due to a positive doping sample from Larionov.

Competitive highlights

Pairs career

(with Klimczak) * J = Junior level

Singles career

* N = Novice level; J = Junior level

References

External links

* Polish male pair skaters 1988 births Living people People from Oświęcim Sportspeople from Lesser Poland Voivodeship {{Poland-figure-skating-bio-stub