Igor Boraska
Igor Boraska OLY | |
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Born | (1970-09-26) 26 September 1970 (age 53) Split, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia |
Alma mater | Brown University |
Olympic medal record | ||
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Men's rowing | ||
2000 Sydney | Eight |
Igor Boraska OLY[1] (born 26 September 1970 in Split) is a Croatian rower who won a bronze medal in the eights competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
Early life
Boraska was born on 26 September 1970 in Split, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia.
Boraska attended Brown University, where he crewed for the school's team. Boraska graduated in 1994 with a degree in mechanical engineering and economics.[2][3]
Rowing career
His teammates at Sydney were Branimir Vujević, Nikša Skelin, Siniša Skelin, Krešimir Čuljak, Tomislav Smoljanović, Tihomir Franković, Igor Francetić and Silvijo Petriško (coxswain). Boraska also participated at the 1996 Summer Olympics and at the 2004 Summer Olympics, both time in coxless four discipline. He was a World champion and a medalist at the World Rowing Championships.
He was a world record (world's best time) holder, for 20 years, in a coxed pair event set at 1994 World rowing championship.
Boraska retired from competitive rowing in 2010.[4]
Bobsleigh career
Boraska was a member of a Croatian team at the 2002 Winter Olympics, as a part of a four-men bobsleigh team. He is the first Croat who participated in both the Summer and the Winter Olympic Games.[5]
References
- ^ "WOA Leadership". World Olympians Association. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
- ^ Wallace, William N. (11 June 1994). "ROWING; Oarsman From Croatia Helps Brown Dominate (Published 1994)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
- ^ Cropp, Ian (16 September 2004). "Brown alums share Olympic spirit". Brown Daily Herald. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
- ^ "Igor Boraska odlučio: Opraštam se od veslanja!". Jutarnji list (in Croatian). 2 October 2010. Retrieved 22 July 2013.
- ^ "Hrvatski bob četverosjed 26., Njemačkoj zlato". Vjesnik (in Croatian). 25 February 2002. Archived from the original on 16 January 2003. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
External links
- databaseOlympic.com
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- 1962: (Wolfgang Neuß, Klaus-Günter Jordan, cox Frank Steinhäuser)
- 1966: (Hadriaan van Nes, Jan van de Graaff, cox Poul de Haan)
- 1970: (Ștefan Tudor, Petre Ceapura, cox Ladislau Lovrenschi)
- 1974: (Vladimir Eshinov, Nikolay Ivanov, cox Aleksandr Lukyanov)
- 1975: (Jörg Lucke, Wolfgang Gunkel, cox Bernd Fritsch)
- 1977: (Todor Mrankov, Dimitar Yanakiev, cox Stefan Stoykov)
- 1978: (Jürgen Pfeiffer, Gert Uebeler, cox Olaf Beyer)
- 1979: (Jürgen Pfeiffer, Gert Uebeler, cox Georg Spohr)
- 1981: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox Giuseppe Di Capua)
- 1982: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox Giuseppe Di Capua)
- 1983: (Ullrich Dießner, Thomas Greiner, cox. Andreas Gregor)
- 1985: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox Giuseppe Di Capua)
- 1986: (Andy Holmes, Steve Redgrave, cox. Patrick Sweeney)
- 1987: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox Giuseppe Di Capua)
- 1989: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox Giuseppe Di Capua)
- 1990: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox Giuseppe Di Capua)
- 1991: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox Giuseppe Di Capua)
- 1993: (Jonny Searle, Greg Searle, cox Garry Herbert)
- 1994: (Igor Boraska, Tihomir Franković, cox Milan Ražov)
- 1995: (Luca Sartori, Giuliano de Stabile, cox Antonio Cirillo)
- 1996: (Yannick Schulte, Luc Prevot, cox Christophe Tellier)
- 1997: (Scott Fentress, Jordan Irving, cox Nicholas Anderson)
- 1998: (Nick Green, James Tomkins, cox Brett Hayman)
- 1999: (James Neil, Phil Henry, cox Nicholas Anderson)
- 2000: (Matt Guerrieri, Kurt Borcherding, cox Nicholas Anderson)
- 2001: (James Cracknell, Matthew Pinsent, cox Neil Chugani)
- 2002: (Lars Krisch, Andreas Werner, cox Claus Müller-Gattermann)
- 2003: (Matt Rich, Dan Beery, cox Andrew Kelly)
- 2004: (Mattia Trombetta, Mario Palmisano, cox Luigi Longobardi)
- 2005: (Hardy Cubasch, Sam Conrad, cox Marc Douez)
- 2006: (Nikola Stojić, Jovan Popović, cox Ivan Ninković)
- 2007: (Dawid Paczes, Lukasz Kardas, cox Daniel Trojanowski)
- 2008: (Gabriel Bergen, James Dunaway, cox Mark Laidlaw)
- 2009: (Troy Kepper, Henrik Rummel, cox Marcus McElhenney)
- 2010: (Chris Morgan, Dominic Grimm, cox David Webster)
- 2011: (Vincenzo Capelli, Pierpaolo Frattini, cox Niccolò Fanchi)
- 2012: (Stanislau Shcharbachenia, Aliaksandr Kazubouski, cox Piotr Piatrynich)
- 2013: (Luca Parlato, Vincenzo Abbagnale, cox Enrico D'Aniello)
- 2014: (Eric Murray, Hamish Bond, cox Caleb Shepherd)
- 2015: (Nathaniel Reilly-O'Donnell, Matthew Tarrant, cox Henry Fieldman)
- 2016: (Oliver Cook, Callum McBrierty, cox Henry Fieldman)
- 2017: (Adrián Juhász, Béla Simon, cox Andrea Vanda Kolláth)
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