Michał Słoma (born 31 January 1982 in

Prostki Prostki is a village in Ełk County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Prostki. It lies approximately south of Ełk and east of the regional capital Olsztyn. It ...

, Warmian-Masurian) is a Polish rower. He won a silver medal, as a member of Polish rowing team, in the men's quadruple sculls (5:55.09) at the

2009 European Rowing Championships The 2009 European Rowing Championships were held in Brest, Belarus, from 18 to 20 September 2009. They were the third European Rowing Championships after the decision was made in May 2006 by the FISA to re-establish them.Brest, Belarus Brest, formerly Brest-Litovsk and Brest-on-the-Bug, is a city in south-western Belarus at the border with Poland opposite the Polish town of Terespol, where the Bug (river), Bug and Mukhavets rivers meet, making it a border town. It serves as ...

, and later represented

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at his first Olympics in London. Sloma also trained for AZS UMK Energa in

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under his personal coaches Alex Wojciechowski, Jaroslaw Janowski, Mariusz Szumanski, and Witold Sroga. Sloma qualified for the

men's single sculls A single scull (or a scull), abbreviated as a 1x, is a racing shell designed for a single person who propels the boat with two oars, one in each hand. Racing boats (often called "shells") are long, narrow, and broadly semi-circular in cross-sec ...

at the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012, were an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

in London by earning a third spot from FISA Olympic Qualification Regatta in

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with an entry time of 7:04.51. Rowing in the C-Final, Sloma paddled his pace to overhaul Monaco's

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for a fifth-place effort and seventeenth overall in 7:34.98. Earlier in the prelims, Sloma posted a lifetime best of 6:54.58 in heat four to secure his automatic slot for the subsequent stages.

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NBC Olympics Profile
1982 births Living people Polish male rowers Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic rowers for Poland People from Ełk County Sportspeople from Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship European Rowing Championships medalists 21st-century Polish sportsmen {{Poland-rowing-bio-stub