Robert Sycz

Robert Sycz

Personal information
Born	15 November 1973 (1973-11-15) (age 51) Warsaw, Poland
Medal record Men's rowing Representing  Poland Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 2 0 0 World Championships 2 3 1 European Championships 0 0 0 Total 4 3 1 Olympic Games 2000 Sydney LM2x 2004 Athens LM2x World Rowing Championships 1997 Aiguebelette LM2x 1998 Cologne LM2x 2001 Lucerne LM2x 2002 Seville LM2x 2003 Milan LM2x 2005 Gifu LM2x

Copy of R. Sycz medal and autograph in Alei Gwiazd Sportu w Dziwnowie

Robert Sycz (born 15 November 1973 in Warsaw) is a Polish rower, and double Olympic Champion.^[1]

Sycz started his rowing career with SWOS 2 (Szkolny Wojewódzki Ośrodek Sportowy nr 2) in Warsaw. He currently competes for RTW Bydgostia in Bydgoszcz. Together with Tomasz Kucharski, Rober Sycz won two gold Olympic medals (in Sydney 2000 and in Athens 2004) in men's lightweight double sculls. This pair also won two gold medals (1997, 1998) and three silver medals (2001, 2002, 2003) at the World Rowing Championships.

For his sport achievements, he received the Order of Polonia Restituta:

• Knight's Cross (5th Class) in 2000
• Officer's Cross (4th Class) in 2004

Sycz was listed as the number two male rower of 2009 in the 2010 FOCUS issue of FISA's World Rowing Magazine.^[2] In 2012,

Achievements

• Olympic Medals: 2 Gold
• World Championship Medals: 2 Gold, 3 Silver, 1 Bronze

Olympic Games

• 2004 – Gold, Lightweight Double Sculls (with Tomasz Kucharski)
• 2000 – Gold, Lightweight Double Sculls (with Tomasz Kucharski)
• 1996 – 7th, Lightweight Double Sculls (with Grzegorz Wdowiak)

World Rowing Championships

• 2009 – 4th, Lightweight Double Sculls (with Mariusz Stańczuk)
• 2006 – 5th, Lightweight Double Sculls (with Tomasz Kucharski)
• 2005 – Bronze, Lightweight Double Sculls (with Paweł Rańda)
• 2003 – Silver, Lightweight Double Sculls (with Tomasz Kucharski)
• 2002 – Silver, Lightweight Double Sculls (with Tomasz Kucharski)
• 2001 – Silver, Lightweight Double Sculls (with Tomasz Kucharski)
• 1998 – Gold, Lightweight Double Sculls (with Tomasz Kucharski)
• 1997 – Gold, Lightweight Double Sculls (with Tomasz Kucharski)
• 1995 – 5th, Lightweight Double Sculls (with Grzegorz Wdowiak)
• 1994 – 7th, Lightweight Double Sculls (with Grzegorz Wdowiak)
• 1993 – 6th, Lightweight Double Sculls (with Grzegorz Wdowiak)

References

1. "Robert Sycz". World Rowing. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
2. "World Rowing Magazine - Focus 2010". Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2010.

External links

• Robert Sycz at World Rowing