Dawid Kubacki (born March 12, 1990 in Nowy Targ ) is a Polish ski jumper . His greatest international successes to date are winning the gold medal on the normal hill at the 2019 World Championships in Seefeld and winning the 2019/20 Four Hills Tournament .
Career
Kubacki, who has been skiing since he was six, began his international career in 2004 with FIS jumping in his home town of Zakopane . Initially, he only achieved mediocre results. At the Junior World Championships in 2006 in Kranj he reached 42nd place in individual jumping and 7th place with the team. After the Junior World Championship, he started in the FIS Cup . On March 18, 2007 he made his debut in the Ski Jumping Continental Cup and already jumped into the points in his first competition with 26th place. Despite this performance, he was only irregularly part of the Continental Cup squad and jumped primarily in the FIS Cup. It was not until September 2008 that he was part of the Continental Cup squad. On January 16, 2009 he made his debut in Zakopane in the World Cup , but clearly missed the points as 49th. At the Junior World Championships in 2009 in Štrbské Pleso he reached 33rd place in individual jumping. In January 2010 he started again in the World Cup in Sapporo and narrowly missed the points with the 37th and 32nd place. At the Junior World Championships in 2010 in Hinterzarten , he jumped to 5th place with the team and 31st place in the individual. At the Ski Jumping Grand Prix 2010 in Hinterzarten, he not only won the qualification, but also catapulted himself and his team to 1st place and sixth in the individual. In Courchevel , Einsiedeln and Wisła , too , he always jumped among the top eleven and achieved his first Grand Prix podium finishes in Hakuba in the individual competitions on August 28 and 29, 2010, finishing second. In the Grand Prix overall standings , he finished fifth with 348 points.
On December 1st, 2012 he reached his first nine World Cup points as 22nd at the World Cup competition in Kuusamo, Finland . Two weeks later, he finished ninth in Engelberg, his first top ten placement. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Val di Fiemme in 2013 , he and his teammates Piotr Żyła, Maciej Kot and Kamil Stoch won the bronze medal in the team competition behind Austria and Germany and thus the first Polish team medal in ski jumping at a world championship. In the individual competitions he was 31st on the normal and 20th on the large hill.
On September 1, 2013 Kubacki won the Polish championship title for the first time at the summer championships on the normal hill in Szczyrk . In February 2014 he was part of the Polish squad for the Winter Olympics in Sochi . He was only used in individual jumping on the normal hill and took 32nd place.
On January 31, 2015, Kubacki won his first Continental Cup competition in Zakopane . At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2015 in Falun , he was only used in the individual competition on the large hill, in which he was 29th. His second COC victory followed in Seefeld on March 7, 2015 . Kubacki was very successful at the start of the 2015/16 season. He first won the two COC competitions in Kranj on July 4th and 5th, 2015. He then started in the Summer Grand Prix . On July 31, he won first with the Polish team in Wisła and scored his first individual victory in the Grand Prix the following day. A week later he won his second competition in Hinterzarten . After further top ten placements in the Grand Prix and in the Continental Cup, at the end of the summer season he finished fifth in the Grand Prix overall ranking and second in the summer COC ranking. At the 2016 Ski Flying World Championships on Kulm , he finished 15th in the individual and fifth with the Polish team. On February 23, 2016, he achieved his best individual placement in the World Cup in seventh place in Kuopio .
On December 3, 2016, Kubacki won the team competition in Klingenthal together with Piotr Żyła , Kamil Stoch and Maciej Kot , which was the first World Cup victory of his career for him. It was also the first victory of a Polish team in a World Cup team competition. At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2017 in Lahti , he took eighth place in both individual competitions, the normal and the large hill. In team jumping on the large hill he became world champion together with Piotr Żyła, Maciej Kot and Kamil Stoch ahead of Norway and Austria.
In the summer of 2017, Kubacki was the outstanding ski jumper in the Grand Prix . At the beginning he won the team competition in Wisła with the Polish team. He participated in five individual competitions, all of which he decided for himself (Wisła, Hinterzarten , Courchevel , Hinzenbach and Klingenthal). As a result, he won the overall Grand Prix ranking with 500 points. He achieved his first podium finishes in individual World Cup competitions with third place on December 30, 2017 in the opening competition of the Four Hills Tournament 2017/18 in Oberstdorf and in the first competition of the Willingen Five on February 3, 2018. At the 2018 Ski Flying World Championships in Oberstdorf he finished tenth in the individual and won together with Piotr Żyła, Stefan Hula and Kamil Stoch the bronze medal in the team competition. Kubacki was part of the Polish squad for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang and took part in all three competitions there. In the individual competition on the normal hill , he was surprisingly eliminated as 35th after the first round. In the individual competition on the large hill , he took tenth place. In the team competition on the large hill , he won the bronze medal behind the teams from Norway and Germany as third together with Maciej Kot, Stefan Hula and Kamil Stoch. He improved his best World Cup placement to second place on March 13, 2018 when jumping in Lillehammer as part of Raw Air . In the overall World Cup of the 2017/18 season , he finished ninth with 633 points, making it into the top ten for the first time.
After he was able to place himself on the podium twice in the course of the Four Hills Tournament 2018/19 as third in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and second in Bischofshofen and only narrowly missed a podium place in the overall ranking of the tour as fourth, he succeeded on January 13, 2019 in Val di Fiemme his first World Cup victory. After he finished twelfth in the individual and fourth with the team at the Ski World Championships 2019 in Seefeld in Tirol , the normal hill did not initially look like a success either: After the first round, Kubacki was on the Toni-Seelos-Olympiaschanze initially only on rank 27. In the second round, however, he reached 104.5 meters and thus the highest distance of the day and was thus able to win the world title. In the final mixed team competition, he took sixth place with the Polish team.
After Kubacki with two third places in Oberstdorf and Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Four Hills Tournament 2019/20 was started, it took over after a second place in Innsbruck the overall lead. He was able to maintain this with his second World Cup victory in Bischofshofen from the Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze and thus became the overall winner ahead of Marius Lindvik and Karl Geiger .
successes
World Cup victories in individual
World Cup victories in the team
| No. |
date |
place |
Type
|
|
01. |
3rd December 2016 |
Germany Klingenthal
|
Large hill
|
|
02. |
January 28, 2017 |
Germany Willingen
|
Large hill
|
|
03. |
January 27, 2018 |
Poland Zakopane
|
Large hill
|
|
04th |
17th November 2018 |
Poland Wisła
|
Large hill
|
|
05. |
15th February 2019 |
Germany Willingen
|
Large hill
|
|
06th |
23 March 2019 |
Slovenia Planica
|
Ski jump
|
|
07th |
December 14, 2019 |
Germany Klingenthal
|
Large hill
|
Individual Grand Prix victories
| No. |
date |
place |
Type
|
|
01. |
August 1, 2015 |
Poland Wisła
|
Large hill
|
|
02. |
August 8, 2015 |
Germany Hinterzarten
|
Normal hill
|
|
03. |
15th July 2017 |
Poland Wisła
|
Large hill
|
|
04th |
29th July 2017 |
Germany Hinterzarten
|
Normal hill
|
|
05. |
August 12, 2017 |
France Courchevel
|
Large hill
|
|
06th |
October 1, 2017 |
Austria Hinzenbach
|
Normal hill
|
|
07th |
3rd October 2017 |
Germany Klingenthal
|
Large hill
|
|
08th. |
29th September 2019 |
Austria Hinzenbach
|
Normal hill
|
|
09. |
22nd August 2020 |
Poland Wisła
|
Large hill
|
| 10. |
23 August 2020 |
Poland Wisła
|
Large hill
|
Grand Prix victories in the team
| No. |
date |
place |
Type
|
|
01. |
August 7, 2010 |
Germany Hinterzarten
|
Normal hill
|
|
02. |
August 2, 2013 |
Poland Wisła
|
Large hill
|
|
03. |
July 25, 2014 |
Poland Wisła
|
Large hill
|
|
04th |
July 31, 2015 |
Poland Wisła
|
Large hill
|
|
05. |
July 14, 2017 |
Poland Wisła
|
Large hill
|
|
06th |
July 21, 2018 |
Poland Wisła
|
Large hill
|
|
07th |
20th July 2019 |
Poland Wisła
|
Large hill
|
Continental Cup wins in singles
| No. |
date |
place |
Type
|
|
01. |
January 31, 2015 |
Poland Zakopane
|
Large hill
|
|
02. |
March 7, 2015 |
Austria Seefeld
|
Normal hill
|
|
03. |
4th July 2015 |
Slovenia Kranj
|
Normal hill
|
|
04th |
5th July 2015 |
Slovenia Kranj
|
Normal hill
|
statistics
World Cup placements
Grand Prix placements
Hill records
| place |
country |
Expanse |
set up on |
Record up
|
| Bischofshofen |
Austria Austria
|
145 m
( HS : 142 m) |
January 6, 2019 |
current
|
| Zakopane |
Poland Poland
|
143.5 m
( HS : 140 m) |
19th January 2019 |
January 25, 2020
|
Web links
Individual evidence
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^ Poland in grandiose early form. In: berkutschi.com. August 7, 2010, accessed June 3, 2015 .
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↑ Poland: Dawid Kubacki wins championship title in Szczyrk. In: skispringen.com. September 1, 2013, accessed June 3, 2015 .
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↑ Kerstin Kock: Poland celebrates its first World Cup success as a team. In: Skispringen-News.de. December 3, 2016, accessed May 4, 2018 .
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