Andrei Jämsä
Jämsä (right) with teammates at the podium of the 2016 European Championships
Personal information
NationalityEstonian
Born (1982-02-14) 14 February 1982
Pärnu, Estonia
Height1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[1]
Weight95 kg (209 lb; 15.0 st)[1]
Sport
SportRowing
EventM4x
ClubPärnu Sõudeklubi
Medal record
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Quadruple sculls
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place2005 GifuQuadruple Sculls
Bronze medal – third place2006 EtonQuadruple Sculls
Bronze medal – third place2015 AiguebeletteQuadruple Sculls
European Championships
Gold medal – first place2008 MarathonQuadruple Sculls
Gold medal – first place2012 VareseQuadruple Sculls
Gold medal – first place2016 BrandenburgQuadruple Sculls
Silver medal – second place2011 PlovdivQuadruple Sculls
Updated on 9 May 2016.

Andrei Jämsä (born 14 February 1982) is an Estonian rower. Due to a back injury he could not compete in 2007. He is a member of rowing club "Pärnu Sõudeklubi" (Pärnu Rowing Club) located in Pärnu.

Junior years

Jämsä was born in Pärnu. He competed in the U-23 world Regatta in the double sculls event in 2002 with Igor Kuzmin, earning 7th position and in 2003 with Oleg Vinogradov earning 4th position.

Olympic Games

His first appearance in the Olympic Games was in Athens 2004, where he competed in the quadruple sculls event with Andrei Šilin, Kuzmin and Vinogradov earning 9th position overall.[2]

In Beijing 2008 Jämsä competed in the single sculls event earning 17th position overall.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he again competed in the men's quadruple sculls with Tõnu Endrekson, Allar Raja and Kaspar Taimsoo. The team finished 4th.[3]

World championships

Jämsä's debut in the World Rowing Championships took place in Milan, Italy in 2003, where he competed in the double sculls event with Kuzmin earning 9th position overall.

Jämsä won his first World Championships medal in 2005 in Gifu, Japan in the quadruple sculls event with Tõnu Endrekson, Leonid Gulov and Jüri Jaanson when they finished third after Poland and Slovenia.

In the 2006 World Championships held in Eton, Great Britain Jämsä was again the strokesman in the bronze-winning quadruple sculls team with Endrekson, Kuzmin and Allar Raja. Gold medals went to Poland and silver medals to Ukraine.

Rowing World Cup

Overall wins

  • Quadruple sculls: 2005

References

  1. 1 2 Andrei Jämsä at World Rowing
  2. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Andrei Jämsä". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016.
  3. ↑ "London 2012 Summer Olympics - Athletes, Medals & Results". Olympic.org. Archived from the original on 25 October 2014.
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