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Croatian rower
Igor Boraska
Born (1970-09-26 ) 26 September 1970 (age 53) Alma mater
Brown University
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.
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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.
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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.
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References
External links
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 )