Jüri Jaanson
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Nationality | Estonian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Pärnu, Estonia | 14 October 1965||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 94 kg (207 lb)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | M1x, M2x, M4x | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Pärnu Sõudeklubi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jüri Jaanson (born 14 October 1965) is the most successful Estonian rower of all time and the winner of five medals at World Rowing Championships. He became World Champion in Tasmania 1990 in the single sculls event. 14 years later, at age 38 he won an Olympic silver medal in the single sculls event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.[2] In Beijing 2008 he won his second Olympic silver medal, this time in the double sculls event with Tõnu Endrekson.[3] He is a member of the SK Pärnu rowing club located in Pärnu. In 2007, Jaanson became the oldest rower ever to win a World Cup event at the age of 41 in Amsterdam.[4]
Jaanson was born in Tartu, and had to overcome a particularly challenging childhood, brought on by a severe case of pneumonia at the age of 2. Doctors gave antibiotics which saved him, but which also left him almost completely deaf. He attended a school for the deaf until he obtained a primitive hearing aid at the age of 12, allowing him to attend a regular school. Still, being a loner, he struggled with fitting in. At Tartu University, when a coach introduced him to rowing, he took to it passionately, in fact so passionately that he left the University to focus on rowing.[5] He wears hearing aids on a regular basis and was also seen wearing them during his rowing competitions.
Jaanson is among four athletes to compete in rowing at six Olympics, with Romanian Elisabeta Lipă in 2004, Canadian Lesley Thompson (cox) in 2008, and Australian James Tomkins.
On 18 November 2010, Jaanson announced ending his career. In July 2011 he was awarded with the Thomas Keller Medal, the highest honor in rowing.[6]
He is also a member of the Estonian parliament, the Riigikogu for the Reform Party.
Olympic Games[]
- 1988 Seoul – 8th Single sculls
- 1992 Barcelona – 5th Single sculls
- 1996 Atlanta – 18th Single sculls
- 2000 Sydney – 6th Single sculls
- 2004 Athens –
Single sculls
- 2008 Beijing –
Double sculls (with Tõnu Endrekson)
World Championships[]
- 1989 Bled, Yugoslavia –
Single sculls
- 1990 Tasmania, Australia –
Single sculls
- 1991 Vienna, Austria – 12th Single sculls
- 1995 Tampere, Finland –
Single sculls
- 1997 Aiguebelette, France – 13th Single sculls
- 1998 Cologne, Germany – 14th Single sculls
- 1999 St. Catharines, Canada – 7th Single sculls
- 2001 Luzerne, Switzerland – 7th Single sculls
- 2003 Milan, Italy – 7th Single sculls
- 2005 Gifu, Japan –
Quadruple sculls (with Andrei Jämsä, Tõnu Endrekson and Leonid Gulov)
- 2007 Munich, Germany –
Double sculls (with Tõnu Endrekson)
European Championships[]
- 2008 Marathon, Greece –
Quadruple Sculls (with Tõnu Endrekson, Andrei Jämsä and Allar Raja)
Rowing World Cup[]
Overall wins
- Single sculls: 1990, 1995
- Quadruple sculls: 2005
- Double sculls: 2007
showJüri Jaanson Rowing World Cup appearances |
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See also[]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Jüri Jaanson at World Rowing (archived)
- ^ "2004 Summer Olympics – Athens, Greece – Rowing" Archived 18 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "First Finals day at the 2008 Olympic Rowing Regatta" Archived 26 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Who to Watch in Lucerne[permanent dead link]
- ^ "For Estonian, Barcelona place to show true colors Rower no longer cog in Soviet machine"
- ^ "Jueri Jaanson awarded rowing's highest distinction"
External links[]
- Jüri Jaanson at World Rowing (archived)
- Biography at soudeliit.ee (in Estonian)
- World Rowing Magazine August 2007
- World Rowing Magazine Athlete of the Month March 2010
- 1965 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Tartu
- Estonian Reform Party politicians
- Estonian male rowers
- Rowers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Rowers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Rowers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Rowers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Rowers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Rowers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic rowers of the Soviet Union
- Olympic rowers of Estonia
- Olympic silver medalists for Estonia
- Estonian sportsperson-politicians
- Olympic medalists in rowing
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- World Rowing Championships medalists for Estonia
- World Rowing Championships medalists for the Soviet Union
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- 21st-century Estonian politicians
- Thomas Keller Medal recipients
- European Rowing Championships medalists
- Members of the Riigikogu, 2011–2015
- Members of the Riigikogu, 2015–2019
- Members of the Riigikogu, 2019–2023