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Poland Wins Men’s Double Sculls Gold at European Championships

The rowing team of Poland won the men’s double sculls gold Saturday at the European Rowing Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Mirosław Ziętarski and Mateusz Biskup dictated the strong, tactical pace to keep the Olympic champions from Romania, Andrei Cornea and Marian Enache, behind them from starting to finish. They won in 6:02.93, just under a second ahead of their nearest rivals from Poland.

By Nikodem Baran | Last Updated: 2 Jun 2025

Close Competition, Podium Finishers
Ireland’s crew, Fintan McCarthy and Konan Pazzaia, took the bronze medal, 2.55 seconds off the winners. Ziętarski and Biskup are both veterans of the Olympic Games, having rowed in the double sculls together for Poland at Tokyo 2020, where they finished sixth.


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In recent years, Ziętarski and Biskup have been part of a successful Polish men’s quadruple sculls crew that took an Olympic bronze medal in Paris last year, as well as multiple world and European championship medals. The win on Saturday saw them return to the double sculls, an event for which they previously won silver at both the 2017 World and European Championships.

They were the lone Polish athletes on the water Saturday with several more rows of Poles expected to slide into the boat for Sunday’s A-finals. Half a dozen U.S. boats will be in action in the evening session, which starts at 10:17 a.m. local time, including the men’s quadruple sculls, men’s eight and women’s eight.


Earlier in the regatta, Cezary Litka came 14th overall in the men’s single sculls after winning the C-final. The women’s quadruple sculls, featuring the crew of Julia Rogiewicz, Anna Khlibenko, Zuzanna Lesner and Barbara Jęchorek, will race in the B-final on Sunday, having placed fourth in their heat.

Today is the first major international rowing event in Europe since the 2024 Paris Olympics.

 

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