Nicolae Juravschi (given name also transliterated Nikolai, Nikolaï, or Nikolay and surname Juravski, Juravskiy, Yuravskiy, or Zhuravsky; born August 8, 1964 in Chircăiești,

Căușeni Căușeni () is a town and the administrative center of Căușeni District, Moldova. Its population at the 2014 census was 15,939, of which 12,056 Moldovans, 1,119 Romanians, 747 Russians, 545 Ukrainians, 204 Bulgarians, 69 Gagauzians, 12 Gypsi ...

) is a

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n politician and former

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er, 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. The pair won two gold medals at the

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, as competitors for the

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. In the next three years Juravschi won a total of eight

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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

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, having been defeated in the trials. Juravschi was invited to represent

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instead and reached two finals. He then returned to Moldova and in 1995 persuaded his former partner Reneysky, from

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, to join forces once more and represent Moldova at the 1996 Olympics. They won a silver medal at the Atlanta games. Juravski is now president of the Moldovan Olympic Committee and the Moldovan Canoe-Kayak Federation. He has been a member of the

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since 2011. Originally a member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he is now a member of the

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