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, he won four medals with one gold (K-4 1000 m:

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), one silver (K-2 200m:

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) and two bronzes (K-2 500 m:

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, 2008). Piatrushenka's first success on the international stage came at the 2000 European under-23 Championships in

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, France as a member of the Belarus K-4 crew which won both the 500 m and 1000 m gold medals. At the 2001 European championships in

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he was persuaded to enter the K-4 races, winning his first senior medals – the 500 m and 1000 m bronze. In the K-1 1000m however, he could only finish 17th. At the 2002 European under-23 Championships in

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he won the K-1 1000 m gold medal, as well as retaining both K-4 titles. Having rejoined the senior K-4 crew on a permanent basis he won his first

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medal, the K-4 1000 m silver, in

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. Senior K-1 races were proving harder though and he again failed to reach any major finals in 2002. Realising he was not yet ready to challenge for senior K-1 medals he instead teamed up with

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to compete in K-2 races. On their first World Cup outing in

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in May 2003 they beat a world-class field including Germans Rauhe and Wieskötter over 500 m. At the 2003 World Championships in Gainesville, USA, they claimed the silver medal. In 2004 at the Athens Olympics they won the K-2 500 m bronze medal. In 2005 they took a break from the K-2 (and each other). Meanwhile, the Belarusian four, with Piatrushenka as the "engine", established themselves as the top K-4 500m crew in the world. A gold medal at the European Championships in

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was followed by victory in the

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final in Zagreb. This was Belarus's first world championship team kayak gold medal since independence. He also won nine more medals at the

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with six gold (K-2 200 m:

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; K-2 500 m: 2009,

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; K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4 1000 m: 2009), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 2007, K-4 1000 m: 2010), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m:

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). In June 2015, he competed in the inaugural European Games, for

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, more specifically, Men's K-2 1000m with Vitaliy Bialko and K-4 1000m with Pavel Miadzvedzeu, Aleh Yurenia, and Vitaliy Bialko. He earned bronze medals in both areas.

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