Grzegorz Fijałek

{{short description|Polish beach volleyball player (born 1987)}}

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| name = Grzegorz Fijałek

| image = Grzegorz Fijalek Austrian Masters 2008.jpg

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| caption = Fijałek in 2008

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| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|11 May 1987}}

| birth_place = Andrychów, Poland

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{{MedalSport | Men's beach volleyball }}

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{{MedalCompetition | European Championships }}

{{MedalBronze | 2013 Klagenfurt | Beach }}

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Grzegorz Fijałek (born 11 May 1987 in Andrychów) is a Polish male beach volleyball player. He competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics with his partner Mariusz Prudel. The other teams in their pool, group D, were Aleksandrs Samoilovs and Ruslans Sorokins (Latvia), Jake Gibb and Sean Rosenthal (USA) and the South African team of Freedom Chiya and Grant Goldschmidt.{{cite web |url=https://www.espn.com/olympics/summer/2012/volleyball/story/_/id/8210009/2012-summer-olympics-kerri-walsh-misty-treanor-prevail-beach-volleyball-opener |title=Kerri Walsh, Misty May-Treanor win |date=28 July 2012 |access-date=29 July 2012 |publisher=ESPN}}{{cite web |url=http://www.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=mariusz-prudel/index.html |title=Mariusz Prudel |accessdate=29 July 2012 |work=London 2012: Athletes |publisher=NBC Olympics |date=28 June 2012}}{{Cite web |title=beach volleyball men results – Beach volleyball – London 2012 Olympics |url=http://www.olympic.org/olympic-results/london-2012/beach-volleyball/beach-volleyball-m |website=www.olympic.org |access-date=2016-01-27}} They lost to the Latvian team, but beat the South African and American teams. Next they played the Swiss pair of Sascha Heyer and Seba Chevallier in the last 16, winning two sets to nil. In the quarterfinals they lost to the Brazilian team of Emanuel Rego and Alison Cerutti.

Prudel and Fijałek were considered to be medal contenders in the 2012 Olympics.

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