Kamil Stoch

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Kamil Stoch
Personal information
Born (1987-05-25) 25 May 1987
Zakopane, Poland
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Professional information
Club WKS Zakopane
Skis Fischer
Personal best 232,5 m (Vikersund 2013)
World Cup
Wins 11
Additional podiums 13
Total podiums 23
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
201011 23 Jan 2011 Poland Zakopane, Poland
2 Feb 2011 Germany Klingenthal, Germany
20 Mar 2011 Slovenia Planica, Slovenia
201112 20 Jan 2012 Poland Zakopane, Poland
5 Feb 2012 Italy Val di Fiemme, Italy
201213 12 Mar 2013 Finland Kuopio, Finland
15 Mar 2013 Norway Trondheim, Norway
201314 15 Dec 2013 Germany Titisee-Neustadt, Germany
22 Dec 2013 Switzerland Engelberg, Switzerland
1 Feb 2014 Germany Willingen, Germany
2 Feb 2014

References


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