Croatian rower (born 1970)
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]
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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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