Nicolae Juravschi

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Olympic medal record
Men's canoeing
Competitor for the  Soviet Union
Gold	1988 Seoul	C-2 500 m
Gold	1988 Seoul	C-2 1000 m
Competitor for  Moldova
Silver	1996 Atlanta	C-2 500 m

Nicolae Juravschi (or Nikolai Juravski) (born August 8, 1964) is a Moldovan canoer, who won three Olympic medals in the C-2 event with his teammate Viktor Reneysky. In Soviet time Juravschi trained at the Armed Forces sports society in Kishinev.

The pair won two gold medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics, as competitors for the USSR. In the next three years Juravschi won a total of 8 world championship gold medals in the C-2 and C-4 events.

Despite this success Reneysky and Juravschi were not selected for the 1992 Olympics, having been defeated in the trials. Juravski was invited to represent Romania instead and reached two finals.

He then returned to the now independent Moldova and in 1995 persuaded his former partner Reneysky, from Belarus, to join forces once more and represent Moldova at the 1996 Olympics. The silver medal they won in the Atlanta games was Moldova's first-ever Olympic medal as an independent nation.

Juravski is now head of the Moldovan Canoe-Kayak Federation.