Nicolae Juravschi

Nicolae Juravschi (given name also transliterated Nikolai, Nikolaï, or Nikolay and surname Juravski, Juravskiy, Yuravskiy, or Zhuravsky; born August 8, 1964 in Chircăiești, Căușeni) is a Moldovan politician and former canoe sprinter, who won three Olympic medals in the C-2 event with his teammate Viktor Reneysky. In the Soviet era Juravschi trained at the Armed Forces sports society in Kishinev (now Chișinău), Moldova.

Nicolae Juravschi
Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Representing  Soviet Union
Olympic Games
1988 SeoulC-2 500 m
1988 SeoulC-2 1000 m
World Championships
1989 PlovdivC-2 500 m
1989 PlovdivC-4 500 m
1989 PlovidvC-4 1000 m
1990 PoznańC-2 500 m
1990 PoznańC-4 500 m
1990 PoznańC-4 1000 m
1991 ParisC-4 500 m
1991 ParisC-4 1000 m
1991 ParisC-2 500 m
1991 ParisC-2 1000 m
Representing  Moldova
Olympic Games
1996 AtlantaC-2 500 m
World Championships
1995 DuisburgC-2 500 m

The pair won two gold medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics, as competitors for the USSR. In the next three years Juravschi won a total of eight world championship gold medals in the C-2 and C-4 events.

Despite this success Reneysky and Juravschi were not selected for the Unified Team at the 1992 Olympics, having been defeated in the trials. Juravschi was invited to represent Romania instead and reached two finals.

He then returned to Moldova and in 1995 persuaded his former partner Reneysky, from Belarus, to join forces once more and represent Moldova at the 1996 Olympics. The silver medal they won at the Atlanta games was Moldova's first-ever Olympic medal as an independent nation.

Juravski is now president of the Moldovan Olympic Committee and the Moldovan Canoe-Kayak Federation.

He has been a member of the Parliament of Moldova since 2011. Originally a member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he is now a member of the European People's Party of Moldova.

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