Jüri Jaanson
Jüri Jaanson ( born October 14, 1965 in Tartu) is a former Soviet and Estonian rowers. He was world champion and won numerous medals at World Championships and Olympic Games.
Sporting successes
Jaanson launched for the Pärnu rowing club. His wife Tatyana is a former rower and trainer today in Pärnu, who also coached her husband among others.
Jaanson took 1987 for the Soviet Union at the World Championships and was part of the one-man competition in fifth place. At the Summer Olympics in 1988 in Seoul he qualified for the B final and finished second in the overall standings to eighth place. His first international medal he won in 1989 at the World Rowing Championships in Bled. In the victory of the German Thomas Lange, he finished in third place. A year later he was in Tasmania world champion in this discipline. At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona Jaanson launched for the first time in Estonia and came in the final in fifth place. In 1995 he won the silver medal at the World Championships in Tampere.
In the following years Jaanson could gain no further successes. At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, he only managed to qualify for the C final and finished 18th in the overall standings. The World Rowing Championships 1999, he finished seventh, 2000, he came at the Olympic Games in Sydney as the last of the A - final finish that finished sixth.
Only in the high athletes aged 38 years Jaanson was able to place on the podium again at internationally important race. In 2004 he won the World Cup race in Poznan for themselves and at the Summer Olympic Games in Athens, he won the silver medal behind Norwegian Olaf Tufte. It was the first Olympic medal for Jaanson in its fifth participation in the Olympic Games.
2005 moved Jaanson in Estonian sculls. The team won the World Cup race at Eton and Lucerne. At the World Championships in Gifu, they won the bronze medal. This was also Jaanson 2007 at the age of 41 years with Tõnu Endrekson in the double sculls at the World Rowing Championships 2007 in Munich. The two were in 2007 further decide the World Cup race in Lucerne and Amsterdam for themselves. In 2008 Jaanson launched together with Endrekson in the double sculls. At the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, the duo won the silver medal behind the Australian boat. For the 42 -year-old Jaanson it was the sixth participation in the Olympic Games. In the subsequent Rowing Championships 2008, he won with the Estonian sculls title. Jaanson continued his career until 2009, was internationally but no longer claim to the front ranks.