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Marek Krzysztof Witkowski (born 21 May 1974 in
Czechowice-Dziedzice Czechowice-Dziedzice (), known until 1958 as Czechowice, is a town in Bielsko County, Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland. The town has 35,684 inhabitants, as of December 2021. It lies on the northeastern edge of the historical region of Cieszyn ...
) is a Polish
sprint canoeist Canoe sprint is a water sport in which athletes race in specially designed sprint canoes or sprint kayaks on calm water over a short distance. Prior to November 2008, canoe sprint was known as flatwater racing. The term is still in use today ...
who competed from 1994 to 2000. Competing in two
Summer Olympics The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Summer Olympics or the Games of the Olympiad, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inaugural Games took place in 1896 in Athens, then part of the King ...
, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Sydney in
2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...
. For his sport achievements, he received:
Golden Cross of Merit in 2000.


Career highlights

Witkowski won a bronze medal at the
2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, officially branded as Sydney 2000, and also known as the Games of the New Millennium, were an international multi-sport event held from 15 September to 1 October ...
in Sydney in the Men's K-4 1000 m competition with crewmates
Adam Seroczyński Adam Dariusz Seroczyński (; born 13 March 1974) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from 1997 to 2008. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Sydney in 2000. For his sport achievements, he recei ...
,
Dariusz Białkowski Dariusz Białkowski (born 16 July 1970 in Białogard) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two bronze medals. Kotowicz won them in the ...
and Grzegorz Kotowicz. He also won three medals at the
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships The ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships are an international event in canoe racing, one of two top-tier Summer Olympic sport events organized by the International Canoe Federation (the other being the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships). They ...
with a silver (K-4 1000 m:
1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...
) and two bronzes (K-4 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both
1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...
).


References


DatabaseOlympics.com profile
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1974 births Canoeists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Living people Olympic canoeists for Poland Olympic bronze medalists for Poland People from Czechowice-Dziedzice Polish male canoeists Olympic medalists in canoeing ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak Canoeists from Silesian Voivodeship Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics 20th-century Polish sportsmen {{Poland-Olympic-medalist-stub