Paweł Tarnowski (sailor)

Paweł Aleksander Maria Tarnowski (born 3 April 1994, in Gdynia) is a Polish sailor, son of Jacek Tarnowski, (businessman and the politician, in 2005–2006 Head of the Chancellery of the Polish Prime Minister)[1] and Monika Wanicka.

[2] Tarnowski already competed at the top-level when he was a teenager, becoming a multiple medal winner in Junior World Championships.

In 2011 and 2012, he won a gold medal at the RS:X Junior World Championships, and he won medals in European Champion.

He competed in the 2024 Olympics in the iQfoil class and came 10th.

[3] He is sometimes seen as a model in commercials, including polish company Atlas[4] or on the cover of album Superheroes : Chapter One - Courage of the band Synthphonia.

Tarnowski from the European Championship gold medal in RS: X in Mondello, Sicily, 2015. Photo by P. Paterek.
Tarnowski in Mondello, Sicily in June 2015. Photo by P. Paterek