Andrzej Jezierski


Andrzej Jezierski is a Polish and Irish sprint canoeist. He won five medals representing Poland at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds, one silver, and two bronzes.
He represented Ireland in the 2012 Olympic Games, in C-1 200m.
Jezierski finished 1st in the B final to claim 9th place overall.

World championships

He was the world champion in C-4 1000 in 2002 and in 2005.
He was also the silver medalist in C-1 200 m in 2002, in C-4 1000 a bronze medalist in 2003 and a bronze medalist in the C-4 500 m in 2005.
On top of that he also took part in the world championships in 1999,
2001, 2003 in C-4 200 m and in C-1 200 m and in 2005 in C-4 200m

European Championships

He was a three-time silver medalist at European level: in C-1 200m in 2002, C-4 500m in 2005 and C-4 1000m in 2005 and also a two-time bronze medalist in the European championships in 2001 in the C-4 1000m and in 2002 in the C-4 200 m with
Roman Rynkiewicz, Michał Gajownik and Adam Ginter)
He also took part in the European championships in 1999,
2000, 2001 in C-2 500 m, 2002 in C-2 500 m,
2004 and in 2005 in C-2 200 m

Olympic Games

He represented Ireland at the 2012 Olympic Games, in the C-1 200m. Jezierski finished 1st in the B final to claim 9th place overall.

Poland Championships

Andrzej Jezierski has been champion of Poland twenty times.
C-1 200 m - 2002, 2003, 2004, 2012
C-4 200 m - 2002, 2003 2004, 2005
C-2 500 m - 1999, 2005
C-4 500 m - 2002, 2005
C-2 1000 m - 1999
C-4 1000 m - 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2012 (with Mariusz Kruk, Marcin Grzybowski and Szymon Kosteński
C-1 4 × 200 m - 2012 (with Mariusz Kruk, Marcin Grzybowski and Piotr Polak

Back to sport

In 2005 Andrzej Jezierski finished his sport career and moved to Ireland. In 2010 he started training again and thank to his double citizenship he achieved Olympic qualification for Ireland for the 2012 London Olympics.
In 2012 after a seven-year break, he also won another three Polish championships.