Paweł Aleksander Maria Tarnowski (born 3 April 1994, in
Gdynia
Gdynia is a city in northern Poland and a seaport on the Baltic Sea coast. With an estimated population of 257,000, it is the List of cities in Poland, 12th-largest city in Poland and the second-largest in the Pomeranian Voivodeship after Gdańsk ...
) is a Polish sailor, son of (businessman, politician, and in 2005–2006 Head of the Chancellery of the Polish Prime Minister) and Monika Wanicka. Tarnowski already competed at the top-level when he was a teenager, becoming a multiple medal winner in Junior World Championships. In 2011 and 2012, he won a gold medal at the
RS:X Junior World Championships, and he won medals in European Champion. In first he started in classes
Techno 293
The Techno 293 is a development of the Aloha class and is primarily for the youth windsurfing class. The class is recognised by the International Sailing Federation. The design was chosen to be the windsurfer for the Youth Olympic Games.
Events
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class and then the
RS:X class, (including in a category age under 17 (U-17) and under 21 years of age (U-21). He competed in the
2024 Olympics
The 2024 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad () and branded as Paris 2024, were an international multi-sport event held in France from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with several events started from 24 July. P ...
in the
iQfoil
iQFoil is a windsurfing class selected by World Sailing to replace the RS:X for the 2024 Summer Olympics. The discipline has similarities to Formula Windsurfing, however a notable difference is that sailors only use one sail. The sail size was o ...
class and came 10th.
He is sometimes seen as a model in commercials, including polish company Atlas or on the cover of album ''Superheroes : Chapter One - Courage'' of the band Synthphonia.
SynthphoniaMusic - profile on Facebook
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Achievements
See also
* List of iQFoil Windsurfing World Championships medalists
References
External links
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Paweł Tarnowski
at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
The 2024 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad () and branded as Paris 2024, were an international multi-sport event held in France from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with several events started from 24 July. P ...
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video clips on Vimeo.com
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1994 births
Living people
Polish windsurfers
Sportspeople from Sopot
Sailors at the 2024 Summer Olympics – iQFoil
Olympic sailors for Poland