Pawe? Baraszkiewicz is a Polish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. He has been world champion four times in the Canadian canoe C-2 event with partner Daniel J?draszko. Baraszkiewicz debuted at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated in the first semifinal of the C-2 500 m event. They also won a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney in the C-2 500 m event. That same year Baraskiewicz also won two C-2 gold medals at the European championships. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Baraszkiewicz and Jedrasko disappointingly failed to win a medal. Baraszkiewicz publicly voiced his suspicion that some of their rivals were guilty of doping. In 2005 Baraszkiewicz switched to the individual C-1 event, winning silver at the 2005 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships over 500 m. 2006 proved a frustrating season, with three fourth-place finishes in major C-1 finals. He did however pick up a world championship silver medal with Poland's four-man C-4 500 m crew. At the end of the season he again became Polish national C-1 champion over all three race distances. 

May 20th, 1977 in Dzia?dowo (Age 47)