Damir Martin
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| Born | 14 July 1988 (age 33) Vukovar, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Damir Martin (born 14 July 1988) is a Croatian rower. He won silver in the men's single scull at the 2016 Olympics losing to Mahé Drysdale in a photo finish and beating the multiple time world champion Ondřej Synek.[1] He also won silver at the 2012 Olympics in the quadruple scull together with David Šain, Martin Sinković and Valent Sinković. At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics held in 2021 he won a bronze medal after an amazing finish.[2]
Martin began rowing at the age of 12. He has been part of the Croatian national team since the age of 17. Rowing is a sporting tradition in his home town of Vukovar. His grandfather was a rower too. His parents even met through their rowing club. He took up rowing after the family moved to Zagreb, in the rowing club "Zagreb", than went to rowing club "Trešnjevka" and is now in the rowing club "Croatia" [3] At just the age of 3 he had to leave his hometown of Vukovar with his mother Dubravka and older brother Stanislav because of the war, while his father Boris stayed and fought.
References[]
- Notes
- ^ "There's only one gold after 5,000ths of a second divides 'dead heat' rowers". The Telegraph. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
- ^ "Damir Martin Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
- ^ "Damir MARTIN - worldrowing.com". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
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