Kamil Stoch

Kamil Stoch
Country	Poland
Full name	Kamil Wiktor Stoch
Born	(1987-05-25) 25 May 1987 Zakopane, Poland
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Ski club	KS Eve-nement Zakopane
Personal best	238 m (781 ft) Planica, 21 Mar 2015
World Cup career
Seasons	2004–present
Individual wins	15
Team wins	1
Indiv. podiums	32
Team podiums	7
Yellow bibs	17
Indiv. starts	242
Overall titles	1 (2014)
Medal record Men's ski jumping Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 2 0 0 World Championships 1 0 2 Ski Flying World Championships 0 0 0 Total 3 0 2 Olympic Games 2014 Sochi Individual NH 2014 Sochi Individual LH FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 Val di Fiemme Individual LH 2013 Val di Fiemme Team LH 2015 Falun Team LH
Updated on 4 December 2016.

Kamil Wiktor Stoch (Polish pronunciation: [ˈkamil stɔx]; born 25 May 1987) is a Polish ski jumper, a member of the national team, 2013 World Champion (large hill) and double 2014 Olympic Champion, a participant of the Winter Olympic Games (2006, 2010), a bronze medalist in team at World Championships (2013, 2015).

He was World Cup holder, having won in 2013–14. On 21 March 2015 set a new Polish record of ski flying with a jump of 238 metres at Letalnica, Planica during the trial round.

Personal life

Kamil Stoch was born in Zakopane, Poland, to Krystyna and Bronisław Stoch and raised in Ząb near Zakopane. He has two older sisters – Anna (born 1983) and Natalia (born 1985). In 2006 he graduated from the School of Sports Championships in Zakopane. He is also a graduate of the University School of Physical Education in Krakow, and in October 2012 was granted a masters in physical education. On 7 August 2010 he married Ewa Bilan.

Kamil Stoch at Olympic Games 2010.

Training jump in Oslo, Norway (2011).

With Adam Małysz during medal cereomy of World Championship 2011.

After winning competition of FIS Ski Jumping World Cup in Zakopane 2012.

During medal ceremony with gold medal of World Championships 2013.

Medal ceremony - Stoch with gold medal of World Championships 2013.

Kamil Stoch during normal hill competition at World Championships 2013 in Predazzo, Italy.

Stoch after winning World Champion 2013 title with teammates – Piotr Żyła and Dawid Kubacki

Receiving bronze medal of World Championships 2013 in team competition (with Maciej Kot, Dawid Kubacki, Piotr Żyła.

Career

He was 3 years old ,when he started skiing first time. A year later he started ski jumping. When he was six years old, he received his first ski jumping skis from his uncle. He joined to the club ŁKS Ząb as an eight-year-old boy, where his first coach was Mirosław Małuda. Initially he trained in the sport of nordic combined.

At the 2006 Ski-flying World Championships in Kulm, Stoch finished 9th in the team event and 35th in the individual event. He competed at his first Olympics in 2006, in Turin, Italy. Having qualified for the finals in the normal hill and large Hill, he finished 16th and 26th respectively. He also qualified for the team competition (large hill) where Poland placed 5th.

Stoch won the Polish Championship in 2007. At the 2007 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo, Stoch finished 5th in the team large hill and 11th in the individual normal hill. He also won a World Cup Summer Grand Prix competition in Oberhof 2007.

In 2008, Stoch was 6th in the individual world cup in Val di Fiemme. In 2009, he was 4th in individual World Championship in Liberec on the normal hill.

2009/2010

At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, the Polish ski jumping team was led by Adam Małysz (who would win the silver medal in both individual events). Stoch again qualified for the finals in all three events, finishing 27th in the Normal hill, 14th in the Large hill, while the Polish team placed sixth in the team competition. Stoch won a 2010 Summer World Cup competition in Wisła and 2011 World Cup events in Zakopane (rescheduled from Harrachov), Klingenthal, and Planica.

2010/2011

On 23 January 2011 on Wielka Krokiew in Zakopane, Poland – the first time in his career he won the World Cup competition. It was the first time on the podium in this series. He was fourth Polish ski jumper after Stanisław Bobak, Piotr Fijas and Adam Małysz, who won World Cup competition.

A week later in the team competition which held annually in Willingen with jumps devoted to distance 139 m, 130 m contributed to gain third place by Polish team. On 2 February 2011 he won second World Cup competition in Klingenthal, Germany. On 22 February 2011 he won the third title of Polish Champion in Szczyrk, Poland, where he jumped twice 101,5 m. During World Cup in Lahti, Finland he gain again third place with team. The season 2010/2011 ended in Planica, Slovenia, where third time in history polish ski jumping – two ski jumpers were on podium together. On 20 March 2011 Stoch won third in his career World Cup competition, Adam Małysz was third. A day earlier, during a trial run before the competition team, Stoch set his new personal record and he landed at 226 m. Polish national team was ranked third place in the Nations Cup. Kamil Stoch ended season on the 10th place in the general individual classification.

2011/2012

On 26 December 2011 in Wisła Malinka, Poland were held Polish Championship. In the first series Stoch jumped 123,5 m in the second he gave a jump of 136 meters, which set a new record object, and won the gold medal.

On 20 January 2012 was held the first of two World Cup competitions in Zakopane. After the jump on distance of 125.5 m in the first series held the second position. In the other hand, he jumped 135 m, which was the longest distance in the competition. Second series gave Stoch fourth career victory, the second in Zakopane.

In the first competition in Predazzo, after the landings at 123,5 mi 126 m, peaked at 7th place, with a loss of 4.2 points to the podium. In both series jumped in adverse wind conditions. The next day of the competition on Trampolino dal Ben jumped a distance of 125,5 mi 131.5 m, which gave him the victory before Gregor Schlierenzauer and Anders Bardal. This allowed him to also stay ahead in the overall standings Thomas Morgenstern and move up to fourth place.

Season 2011/2012 graduated on the best in his career – fifth place in the overall World Cup with the acquis 1078 points, and a loss of 247 points to the winner of the Crystal Ball – Anders Bardal. In this season Stoch was on the podium seven times – twice victorious, was second twice and third three times. In the classification of flights was sixth, which was also his best result. He lost 162 points to best aviator season – Robert Kranjec, he stood on the podium one contest flight – was third in Tauplitz.

2012/2013

On 25 January 2013 he became the joint holder of the Polish ski flying distance record (tying the mark held by Piotr Żyła) with a jump of 232.5 metres.

In the first competition in Val di Fiemme during 2013 Ski Jumping World Championships Stoch earned the highest score in the trial before the contest, jumping to 103 m in the first round competition jumped a distance of 102 m and was ranked in second place, losing 2.8 points to the leader – Anders Bardal. In the second series has reached 97 m, with a weak landing and fell to eighth place. Stoch in post-competition interviews stated that he is very unhappy with the obtained result – despite the relaxation made a mistake during the jump.

On 28 February 2013 achieved title of World Champion 2013. In the first series of the competition he showed the longest jump on 131.5 m and earned high marks for style, including the "20" from the Swiss judge. He was the leader after the first round. In the final series, like most of the top competitors he competed with reduced at the request of the coach – the nineteenth beam. Stoch jumped 130 m, again without providing any judicial note below "19" and won the gold medal with 6.1 points more than Peter Prevc, but about 6.7 from the third Anders Jacobsen. Immediately after the competition Stoch and Prevc were threatened with disqualification for image suits. This provision was to be introduced the day before, ultimately anonymous protest was rejected by the judges. Gold medal Stoch picked up a day later in Cavalese. He won the title of World Champion in Val di Fiemme – exactly ten years after winning the first title of World Champion by Adam Małysz.^[1] On 2 March 2013 Stoch took part in the team competition on the large hill, which was submitted to the fourth group of players. Before his first attempt Poland was classified in fifth place. Makes a stroke on the 134-meter and after the first round of Poland took fourth place, losing five points to third Germans. The second started at the request of head coach Łukasz Kruczek, with a reduction of two positions beams and reached 130 meters. Polish team, including Stoch, won there a bronze medal in team competition in squad: Kamil Stoch, Dawid Kubacki, Piotr Żyła and Maciej Kot.^[2] The primary outcome of the competition his team took fourth place, but after re-counting the scores because of Thomas Morgenstern, who noticed a mistake in points and at the request of the Germans, they finished in third place (Norway was in front of the Polish, but Bardal's jump was badly counted).^[3]

In the overall World Cup in season 2012/2013 Polish representative came in third. He scored 953 points, but lost 667 points to the winner of the Crystal Ball – Gregor Schlierenzauer and 46 points to the second Anders Bardal. His advantage over fourth Severin Freund totaled 30 points. He won two World Cup competitions, five times was on podium.

2013/2014

At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Stoch entered as a medal favorite. On 9 February 2014 after qualifying easily in the first competition on the normal hill, he then landed the longest jumps in both rounds of the finals to win the title of Olympic Champion 2014.^[4] He won by 12.7 points, the fourth- largest margin of victory in a men's normal hill at the Winter Olympic Games. It was Poland's first Olympic ski jumping gold medal since Wojciech Fortuna won the large hill at the 1972 Olympics. While competing he wore a helmet painted in military green, in tribute to the Polish Air Force (with a red & white Polish Air Force checkerboard insignia on the left side of his helmet.). On 15 February 2014 – Kamil Stoch won his second gold medal, this time on the large hill, becoming third man in history to win both hills individual events in single Olympics after Matti Nykänen in Calgary 1988 and Simon Ammann in Salt Lake City 2002, Vancouver 2010.^[5] He jumped 139 m and 132.5 m. His advantage over second Japanese Noriaki Kasai was 1.3 points and 3.9 points over third Slovene Peter Prevc.^[6]

In March 2014 he won overall FIS World Cup classification.^[7] Season 2013/2014 ended with six victories.

2014/2015

Kamil Stoch sustained an ankle injury before the FIS World Cup opening in Klingenthal, that prevented him from participating in the first competitions of the season.^[8] He came back to trainings before the Four Hills Tournament.^[9] He took 10th place at Four Hills Tournament. On 18 January 2015 won FIS World Cup in Zakopane at Wielka Krokiew.^[10] It was his first victory after serious injury. On 30 January 3015 won 15th World Cup in career, this time in Willingen.^[11] In February 2015 took part in the World Championships. He was 17th in normal hill and 12th in large hill competition. On 28 February 2015 (exactly two years after winning World Champion title by Stoch) Polish team in squad: Stoch, Piotr Żyła, Klemens Murańka and Jan Ziobro achieved bronze medal of World Championships 2015 in team.^[12] For Stoch is the second bronze of World Championships in team.

On 21 March 2015 set a new Polish record of ski flying with a jump of 238 metres at Letalnica, Planica during the trial round.^[13] He took 9th place in FIS World Cup general classification. Season 2014/2015 ended with two victories, two second place, one third place.

2016/2017

Competing in Klingenthal on December 3, 2016, the Polish national team, composed of Żyła, Stoch, Kubacki and Kot, won their country's first-ever World Cup team event.^[14]

Olympic Games

After his jump on normal hill - Sochi 2014.

Kamil Stoch started at Olympic Games three times – in Turin 2006, Vancouver 2010 and Sochi 2014. The first one he was 16th on normall hill K95 and 26th place on large hill K125. In team competition he was with Polish team on 5th place. In Vancouver, Canada he was 27th on normall hill (weaker than in Turin) and 14th on large hill. In the team competition, which he also jumped, Poland was ranked 6th. In Sochi, Russia in the individual competition on the normal hill he won the title of Olympic Champion. At the same Olympics, Kamil Stoch also won the Olympic title in the individual competition on the large hill K125. He is the third man in history to win both hills individual events in single Olympics after Matti Nykänen in Calgary 1988 and Simon Ammann in Salt Lake City 2002, Vancouver 2010.

Individual

2006 Turin/Pragelato	–	16th place (K-95), 26th place (K-125)
2010 Vancouver/Whistler	–	27th place (K-95), 14th place (K-125)
2014 Sochi/Krasnaya Polyana	–	gold medal (K-95), gold medal (K-125)

Team

2006 Turin/Pragelato	–	5th place
2010 Vancouver/Whistler	–	6th place
2014 Sochi/Krasnaya Polyana	–	4th place

Kamil Stoch's starts at Olympic Games

Place	Day	Year	Locality	Hill	Point K	HS	Competition	Jump 1	Jump 2	Note (points)	Loss (points)	Winner
16.	12 February	2006	Pragelato	Trampolino a Monte	K-95	HS-106	individual	100.0 m	98.5 m	247.0	19.5	Lars Bystøl
26.	18 February	2006	Pragelato	Trampolino a Monte	K-125	HS-140	individual	116.5 m	121.0 m	200.0	76.9	Thomas Morgenstern
5.	20 February	2006	Pragelato	Trampolino a Monte	K-125	HS-140	team	122.0 m	124.5 m	894.4 (220.7)	89.6	Austria
27.	13 February	2010	Whistler	Whistler Olympic Park	K-95	HS-106	individual	98.5 m	95.5 m	232.0	44.5	Simon Ammann
14.	20 February	2010	Whistler	Whistler Olympic Park	K-125	HS-140	individual	126.0 m	123.5 m	224.1	59.5	Simon Ammann
6.	22 February	2010	Whistler	Whistler Olympic Park	K-125	HS-140	team	126.5 m	134.5 m	996.7 (248.8)	111.2	Austria
1.	9 February	2014	Krasnaya Polyana	RusSki Gorki	K-95	HS-106	individual	105.5 m	103.5 m	278.0	—
1.	15 February	2014	Krasnaya Polyana	RusSki Gorki	K-125	HS-140	individual	139.0 m	132.5 m	278.7	—
4.	17 February	2014	Krasnaya Polyana	RusSki Gorki	K-125	HS-140	team	130.5 m	135.0 m	1011.8 (269.0)	29.3	Germany

World championships

Kamil Stoch took part in FIS Nordic World Ski Championships five times. He debuted in Oberstdorf, where he finished at 37th place on the large hill. Later he appeared in Sapporo, Liberec and Oslo. In 2013 he became a World Champion in Val di Fiemme.

Individual

2005 Oberstdorf	–	did not qualify (K-90), 37th place (K-120)
2007 Sapporo	–	13th place (K-120), 11th place (K-90)
2009 Liberec	–	4th place (K-90), 24th place (K-120)
2011 Oslo	–	6th place (K-95), 19th place (K-120)
2013 Val di Fiemme/Predazzo	–	8th place (K-95), gold medal (K-120)
2015 Falun	–	17th place (K-90), 12th place (K-120)

Team

2005 Oberstdorf	–	6th place (K-95), 9th place (K-120)
2007 Sapporo	–	5th place (K-120)
2009 Liberec	–	4th place (K-120)
2011 Oslo	–	4th place (K-95), 5th place (K-120)
2013 Val di Fiemme/Predazzo	–	bronze medal (K-120)
2015 Falun	–	bronze medal (K-120)

Kamil Stoch's starts at FIS Nordic World Ski Championships

Place	Day	Year	Locality	Hill	Point K	HS	Competition	Jump 1	Jump 2	Note (points)	Loss (points)	Winner
—	18 February	2005	Oberstdorf	Schattenbergschanze	K-90	HS-100	individual	Did not qualify				Rok Benkovič
6.	20 February	2005	Oberstdorf	Schattenbergschanze	K-90	HS-100	team	86.5 m	82.0 m	859.0 (202.0)	111.5	Austria
37.	25 February	2005	Oberstdorf	Schattenbergschanze	K-120	HS-137	individual	117.5 m	—	108.5	204.7	Janne Ahonen
9.	26 February	2005	Oberstdorf	Schattenbergschanze	K-120	HS-137	team	117.0 m	—	449.7 (108.1)	687.6	Austria
13.	24 February	2007	Sapporo	Ōkurayama	K-120	HS-134	individual	117.5 m	121.0 m	221.3	44.8	Simon Ammann
5.	25 February	2007	Sapporo	Ōkurayama	K-120	HS-134	team	129.0 m	120.0 m	857.2 (241.7)	143.0	Austria
11.	3 March	2007	Sapporo	Miyanomori	K-90	HS-98	individual	92.5 m	93.0 m	238.5	38.5	Adam Małysz
4.	21 February	2009	Liberec	Ještěd	K-90	HS-100	individual	99.5 m	100.5 m	270.0	12.0	Wolfgang Loitzl
24.	27 February	2009	Liberec	Ještěd	K-120	HS-134	individual	119.5 m	—	113.6 pkt	27.7 pkt	Andreas Küttel
4.	28 February	2009	Liberec	Ještěd	K-120	HS-134	team	122.0 m	126.0 m	972.1 (246.2)	62.2	Austria
6.	26 February	2011	Oslo	Midtstubakken	K-95	HS-106	individual	94.0 m	101.0 m	240.5	28.7	Thomas Morgenstern
4.	27 February	2011	Oslo	Midtstubakken	K-95	HS-106	team	101.0 m	102.5 m	953.0 (247.3)	72.5	Austria
19.	3 March	2011	Oslo	Holmenkollbakken	K-120	HS-134	individual	131.0 m	124.5 m	235.7	41.8	Gregor Schlierenzauer
5.	5 March	2011	Oslo	Holmenkollbakken	K-120	HS-134	team	113.5 m	—	435.6 (100.6)	64.4	Austria
8.	23 February	2013	Predazzo	Trampolino Dal Ben	K-95	HS-106	individual	102.0 m	97.0 m	237.4	15.2	Anders Bardal
1.	28 February	2013	Predazzo	Trampolino Dal Ben	K-120	HS-134	individual	131.5 m	130.0 m	295.8	—	—
3.	2 March	2013	Predazzo	Trampolino Dal Ben	K-120	HS-134	team	134.0 m	130.0 m	1121.0 (301.9 )	14.9	Austria
17.	21 February	2015	Falun	Lugnet	K-90	HS-100	individual	90.0 m	89.5 m	220.2	32.5	Rune Velta
12.	26 February	2015	Falun	Lugnet	K-120	HS-134	individual	125.0 m	124.5 m	225.0	43.7	Severin Freund
3.	28 February	2015	Falun	Lugnet	K-120	HS-134	team	129.5	126.0	848.1 (227.0)	44.5	Norway

World Cup

Season standings

Individual starts

Season	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	Points
2003/04																																0
	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	49	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
2004/05																																36
	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	44	q	–	–	7	q	q	40	34	–	–
2005/06																																41
	26	43	35	33	25	–	41	49	29	41	33	–	–	15	19	–	40	34	34	44	q	–
2006/07																																168
	46	40	26	q	q	29	21	15	9	25	36	50	41	17	34	24	–	12	17	45	19	24	36	11
2007/08																																157
	q	34	35	34	34	41	18	22	23	25	35	6	19	12	21	25	44	20	q	24	q	23	32	35	30	29	29
2008/09																																146
	48	46	47	–	–	q	q	–	47	27	28	–	–	11	14	19	24	13	35	41	–	q	45	42	q	10	8
2009/10																																203
	24	20	7	10	17	11	q	23	19	44	q	q	–	–	27	28	–	–	–	18	21	10	22
2010/11																																739
	34	20	22	16	9	12	9	25	8	21	15	16	14	–	–	17	7	1	6	1	11	11	11	9	7	1
2011/12																																1078
	4	3	48	15	13	12	2	23	4	9	9	6	3	1	7	3	2	7	1	5	6	39	6	11	9	11
2012/13																																953
	30	36	q	–	–	2	14	13	6	2	4	7	3	9	5	5	7	9	8	30	–	5	1	1	4	11	8
2013/14																																1420
	37	10	20	18	2	1	2	1	13	7	3	8	6	9	2	17	–	–	1	1	4	3	1	1	9	3	4	4
2014/15																																820
	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	4	15	7	15	–	15	1	7	2	1	7	4	2	–	–	45	–	12	5	3	8	5
2015/16																																295
	13	15	47	q	6	20	26	23	19	16	33	–	8	18	41	28	14	q	23	23	q	27	–	–	10	13	15	21	21
2016/17																																64
	26	22	4

Victories

Podiums

State awards

• 2014 Knight's Cross of Polonia Restituta^[15]

Other awards

• 2015 Holmenkollen Medal

References

External links

• Kamil Stoch at the International Ski Federation

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