Kamil Stoch
Kamil Stoch | |
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Born | Zakopane, Poland | 25 May 1987
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) |
Ski club | WKS Zakopane |
Personal best | 232,5 m (Vikersund 2013) |
World Cup career | |
Indiv. podiums | 17 |
Indiv. wins | 8 |
Updated on February 28, 2012. |
Kamil Stoch (born May 25, 1987 in Zakopane) is a Polish ski jumper and world champion.
Competing in two Winter Olympics, he earned his best finish of fifth in the team large hill at Turin in 2006. At the 2006 Ski-flying World Championships in Kulm, he finished ninth in the team event and 35th in the individual event. Stoch won the Poland Championship in 2007. At the 2007 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo, he finished fifth in the team large hill and finished 11th in the individual normal hill. He also won a World Cup Summer Grand Prix competition in Oberhof 2007. In 2008 Stoch was sixth in the individual world cup in Val di Fiemme. In 2009 he was 4th in individual World Championship in Liberec on normal hill. In 2010 he won a Summer World Cup competition in Wisła and in 2011 the World Cup events in Zakopane (rescheduled from Harrachov), Klingenthal and Planica. He also won the 2013 Ski Jumping World Championships in Val di Fiemme. Kamil Stoch is now considered by Polish ski jumping fans the heir of Adam Malysz.
World Cup victories
Season | Date | Location |
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2010–11 | 23 Jan 2011 | Zakopane, Poland |
2 Feb 2011 | Klingenthal, Germany | |
20 Mar 2011 | Planica, Slovenia | |
2011–12 | 20 Jan 2012 | Zakopane, Poland |
5 Feb 2012 | Val di Fiemme, Italy | |
2012–13 | 12 Mar 2013 | Kuopio, Finland |
15 Mar 2013 | Trondheim, Norway | |
2013–14 | 15 Dec 2013 | Titisee-Neustadt, Germany |