Tõnu Endrekson
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| Medal record | |||
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Competitor for  Estonia |
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| Men's rowing | |||
| World Championships | |||
| Bronze | 2005 Gifu | Quadruple Sculls | |
| Bronze | 2006 Eton | Quadruple Sculls | |
| Bronze | 2007 Munich | Double Sculls | |
Tõnu Endrekson (born June 11, 1979, in Pärnu, Estonian SSR, USSR) is an Estonian rower. He was fourth in the double sculls event with Leonid Gulov at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He is a member of rowing club "SK Pärnu" located in Pärnu.
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[edit] Junior years
Endrekson competed in the Junior World Rowing Championships in 1996 in the double sculls event (24th) and 1997 in the single sculls event (16th). In 2001 he won a gold medal in the U-23 World Regatta (now U-23 World Championships) in the double sculls event with Leonid Gulov.
[edit] Olympic Games
His first appearance in the Olympic Games was in Athens 2004, where he competed in the double sculls event with Leonid Gulov. The men were third in their preliminary heat and second in semi-final thus earning a place in the Final A. They held the sixth position for the first 1500 metres, but with the strong final 500 metres they managed to clinch the fourth position. Eventually they lost the bronze medal to italians Rossano Galtarossa and Alessio Sartori by 2,37 seconds.
[edit] World Championships
Endrekson debuted in the World Rowing Championships in 2001 in Lucerne, Switzerland. He competed in the quadruple sculls event with Leonid Gulov, Andrei Šilin and Silver Sonntak. They won the Final B and earned 7th place.
2002 in Seville, Spain he was a member of the qudruple sculls team with Andrei Šilin, Igor Kuzmin and Silver Sonntak. They won the Final B and earned 7th place.
2003 in Milan, Italy Endrekson, Gulov, Šilin and Sonntak were 7th once more.
Endrekson won his first World Championships medal in 2005 in Gifu, Japan in the quadruple sculls event with Andrei Jämsä, Leonid Gulov and Jüri Jaanson when they finished third after Poland and Slovenia.
In the 2006 World Championships held in Eton, Great Britain Endrekson was again in the bronze-winning quadruple sculls team with Jämsä, Kuzmin and Allar Raja. Gold medals went to Poland and silver medals to Ukraine.
In 2007 season Endrekson decided to compete in the double sculls with Jaanson. They won two World Cup events and were third in the World Championships in Munich, Germany, after Slovenia and France.
[edit] Rowing World Cup
| Year | Event | Position | Class |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Hazewinkel, Belgium | 5th | Quadruple Sculls |
| Lucerne, Switzerland | 4th | Quadruple Sculls | |
| 2003 | Milan, Italy | 11th | Quadruple Sculls |
| Lucerne, Switzerland | 6th | Quadruple Sculls | |
| 2004 | Poznan, Poland | 2nd | Double Sculls |
| Munich, Germany | 6th | Double Sculls | |
| Lucerne, Switzerland | 5th | Double Sculls | |
| 2005 | Eton, Great Britain | 1st | Quadruple Sculls |
| Lucerne, Switzerland | 1st | Quadruple Sculls | |
| 2006 | Munich, Germany | 11th | Double Sculls |
| Poznan, Poland | 7th | Double Sculls | |
| Lucerne, Switzerland | 5th | Quadruple Sculls | |
| 2007 | Linz, Austria | 5th | Double Sculls |
| Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1st | Double Sculls | |
| Lucerne, Switzerland | 1st | Double Sculls |
