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Michał Śliwiński

Michał Śliwiński
Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Olympic Games
Representing  Soviet Union
Silver medal – second place 1988 Seoul C-1 500 m
Representing Olympic flag.svg Unified Team
Silver medal – second place 1992 Barcelona C-1 500 m
World Championships
Representing  Soviet Union
Gold medal – first place 1989 Plovdiv C-1 500 m
Gold medal – first place 1990 Poznań C-1 500 m
Gold medal – first place 1991 Paris C-1 500 m
Representing  Poland
Gold medal – first place 2001 Poznań C-2 1000 m
Gold medal – first place 2002 Seville C-2 1000 m
Gold medal – first place 2005 Zagreb C-4 1000 m
Silver medal – second place 2003 Gainesville C-4 500 m
Representing  Ukraine
Bronze medal – third place 1994 Mexico City C-1 200 m
Bronze medal – third place 1994 Mexico City C-1 500 m
Bronze medal – third place 1994 Mexico City K-4 200 m
Bronze medal – third place 1995 Duisburg C-1 200 m
Bronze medal – third place 1997 Dartmouth C-1 200 m
Bronze medal – third place 1997 Dartmouth C-1 500 m
Bronze medal – third place 1998 Szeged C-1 200 m
Bronze medal – third place 1998 Szeged C-1 500 m
Representing  Poland
Bronze medal – third place 2001 Poznań C-1 200 m
Bronze medal – third place 2002 Seville C-4 500 m
Bronze medal – third place 2005 Zagreb C-4 500 m
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2004 Poznań C2-1000 m
Silver medal – second place 2002 Szeged C2-1000 m
Silver medal – second place 2005 Poznań C2-500 m

Michał Śliwiński (Mykhaylo Slyvynsky Ukrainian: Михайло Сливинський; born February 5, 1970 in Dobrotvir, Ukrainian SSR) is a Soviet/Ukrainian/Polish sprint canoer, who has won six world championship titles over his long career.

An ethnic Pole from Ukraine, Śliwiński represented the USSR at the 1988 Olympics, winning the Canadian canoe C-1 500 m silver medal at the age of only eighteen.

Over the next three years he dominated the event, winning consecutive world championship gold medals in 1989, 1990 and 1991. However, in the 1992 Olympics he had to settle for another silver medal behind Nikolay Bukhalov of Bulgaria.

The break-up of the Soviet Union affected Śliwiński's career greatly as the newly independent Ukraine did not win any world championship gold medals during the 1990s. Śliwiński, now specialising in the short sprint 200 m races, was still regarded as a top competitor at international events but he endured a frustrating sequence of four world championship bronze medals. With no 200 m races included in the Olympics he competed in the C-1 500 m at Atlanta 1996, finishing just outside the medals in fourth place.


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