Pavel Antonavich Shurmei (Belarusian: Павел Антонавіч Шурмей, born 1 September 1976) is a Belarusian rower who competed at two Olympic Games and holds multiple world records on the Concept2 indoor rowing machine.
[1] In March 2023, it became known that a criminal case was opened in Belarus against Pavel Shurmey in absentia.
[10] Below are the season-end world rankings for Shurmei in various indoor rowing events where he finished in the top 50.
He is serving in the Belarusian Kastuś Kalinoŭski Regiment on the Ukrainian side in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
[18][1] Shurmei was wounded in action[19][20] and is among the first recipients of the Military Virtue Medal from the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic.