Patryk Piasecki (born 7 August 1986) is a Polish former sailor, who specialized in the two-person dinghy (

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) class. 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

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, finishing in a lowly eighteenth place. Piasecki also served as a senior member of the sailing roster at the University of Warmia and Mazury's sport academy in

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(). Piasecki competed for the Polish sailing squad, as a skipper in the men's 470 class, at the

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. 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. 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.

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* * * * 1986 births Living people Polish male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for Poland Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – 470 People from Mrągowo Sailors (sport) from Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship 21st-century Polish sportsmen {{Poland-yachtracing-bio-stub