Robert Sycz

Robert Sycz

Personal information
Born	15 November 1973 (age 42) Warsaw, Poland
Medal record Men's rowing Competitor for  Poland Olympic Games 2000 Sydney Lightweight double sculls 2004 Athens Lightweight double sculls World Rowing Championships 1997 Aiguebelette LM2x 1998 Cologne LM2x 2001 Lucerne LM2x 2002 Seville LM2x 2003 Milan LM2x 2005 Gifu LM2x

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

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.^[1]

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

• 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. http://www.worldrowingmagazine.com/worldrowingmagazine/2010focus/#pg4

External links

• Robert Sycz at WorldRowing.com from FISA