Mariusz Jurkiewicz (born 3 February 1982) is a former Polish
handball
Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...
player who last played for
PGE Vive Kielce.
He participated at the
2016 Summer Olympics
The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...
in
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a b ...
, in the
men's handball tournament.
State awards
* 2015
Silver Cross of Merit
The Cross of Merit () is a Polish civil state decoration established on 23 June 1923, to recognize services to the state.
History
At the time of its establishment in 1923, the Cross of Merit was the highest civilian award in Poland. It was aw ...
References
External links
Profile
1982 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Lublin
Polish male handball players
Handball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic handball players of Poland
Expatriate handball players
Polish expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Liga ASOBAL players
BM Ciudad Real players
SDC San Antonio players
Wisła Płock (handball) players
Vive Kielce players
21st-century Polish people
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