Kamil Stoch

Kamil Stoch
Stoch at the 2019 World Cup in Seefeld
nation	Poland
birthday	25th May 1987 (age 33)
place of birth	Zakopane , Poland
size	173 cm
Weight	53 kg
job	Ski jumper
Career
society	AZS Zakopane WKS Zakopane KS Eve-nement Zakopane (since 2014)
Trainer	Michal Doležal
National squad	since 2003
Pers. Best	251.5 m ( Planica 2017)
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 3 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 2 × 1 × 2 × SFWM medals 0 × 1 × 2 × JWM medals 0 × 2 × 0 × National medals 11 × 12 × 9 ×
winter Olympics gold 2014 Sochi Normal hill gold 2014 Sochi Large hill gold 2018 Pyeongchang Large hill bronze 2018 Pyeongchang team  Nordic World Ski Championships gold 2013 Val di Fiemme Large hill bronze 2013 Val di Fiemme team bronze 2015 Falun team gold 2017 Lahti team silver 2019 Seefeld Normal hill  Ski flying world championships silver 2018 Oberstdorf singles bronze 2018 Oberstdorf team bronze 2020 Planica team  Ski jumping junior world championship silver 2004 Stryn team silver 2005 Rovaniemi team  Polish championships silver 2005 Zakopane Winter GS bronze 2005 Szczyrk Winter NS silver 2006 Zakopane Winter NS bronze 2006 Zakopane Winter GS silver 2006 Zakopane Summer NS gold 2007 Zakopane Winter GS silver 2007 Szczyrk Winter NS silver 2007 Zakopane Summer NS bronze 2007 Zakopane Summer GS gold 2009 Wisła Winter GS silver 2009 Szczyrk Winter NS bronze 2009 Zakopane Summer NS silver 2010 Zakopane Winter GS gold 2010 Szczyrk Summer team silver 2010 Szczyrk Summer NS silver 2010 Wisła Summer GS gold 2011 Szczyrk Winter NS gold 2011 Wisła Winter GS gold 2011 Zakopane Summer GS gold 2012 Zakopane Winter GS gold 2012 Zakopane Winter team bronze 2012 Wisła Summer GS silver 2013 Wisła Winter GS gold 2014 Wisła Summer GS bronze 2014 Wisła Summer team gold 2015 Zakopane Winter GS bronze 2016 Wisła Winter GS silver 2016 Wisła Summer GS bronze 2017 Wisła Winter GS bronze 2018 Zakopane Summer GS gold 2018 Zakopane Winter GS silver 2019 Szczyrk Summer NS
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	January 17, 2004
World Cup victories (individual)	39 ( details )
World Cup victories (team)	07 ( details )
Overall World Cup	01. ( 2013/14 , 2017/18 )
Ski flying world cup	02. ( 2017/18 )
Four Hills Tournament	01. ( 2016/17 , 2017/18 , 2020/21 )
Raw Air	01. ( 2018 , 2020 )
Nordic Tournament	15th (2010)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 34 20th 15th  Ski flying 5 0 2  Team jumping 7th 10 10
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Debut in the Grand Prix	August 13, 2005
Grand Prix victories (individual)	11 ( details )
Grand Prix victories (team)	06 ( details )
Overall Grand Prix	02. ( 2010 , 2011 , 2020 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 11 7th 7th  Team jumping 6th 4th 0
Ski Jumping Continental Cup (COC)
Debut in the COC	0January 1, 2003
COC wins (individual)	06 ( details )
Overall ranking COC	09th ( 2010/11 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 6th 1 3
last change: January 9, 2021

Kamil Wiktor Stoch [ ˈkamil ˈstɔx ] (born May 25, 1987 in Zakopane ) is a Polish ski jumper . At the 2013 World Championships he won the title on the large hill and won the bronze medal in the team competition with the Polish team. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , Stoch secured both individual gold medals. At the 2018 Winter Olympics , he won the gold medal in the individual on the large hill and the bronze medal with the team. He also won the overall World Cup and the Four Hills Tournament in 2013/14 and 2017/18 in 2016/17 , 2017/18 and 2020/21 . He is one of the five athletes (alongside Espen Bredesen , Thomas Morgenstern , Matti Nykänen and Jens Weißflog ) who have won the four most important competitions in ski jumping. Stoch was also the second overall winner of a Four Hills Tournament in 2017/18 after Sven Hannawald ( 2001/02 ), who won all four competitions.

After his overall victory in 2020/21, he is the third jumper after Bjørn Wirkola and Helmut Recknagel , who won the tour three times. Only Janne Ahonen (five wins) and Jens Weißflog (four wins) won more often.

Personal

Kamil Stoch attended the sports school Zespół Szkół Mistrzostwa Sportowego in Zakopane and then studied at the Akademia Wychowania Fizycznego im. Bronisława Czecha , a sports university based in Kraków .

Since August 8, 2010 he has been married to Ewa Bilan, who acts as his manager. Both founded a ski club in Zakopane to promote talent. Stoch also acted as an advertising medium for the Polish armed forces , because when he won the Olympic Games in 2014 he wore the emblem of the Polish Air Force on his helmet. Stoch is a fan of the English soccer club Liverpool FC , whose games he has often attended. He is an avowed Catholic.

Career

Kamil Stoch started skiing when he was three years old before he did his first jumps when he was nine. Three years later, at the age of twelve, he managed to jump to a distance of 128 m.

Stoch made his first appearance at an international tournament in 1999 at the pupil's cup in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . In January 2003 it was used for the first time in the Continental Cup , the second division of international ski jumping. Here he also jumped in winter 2003/04 and at the beginning of winter 2004/05. In addition, Stoch represented Poland at the Junior World Championships from 2003 to 2005; In 2004 and 2005 he was junior vice world champion with the Polish team. At the 2005 World Championships in Oberstdorf , he finished sixth with the Polish team.

On January 29, 2005, Kamil Stoch was initially set up for a World Cup competition while jumping in his hometown Zakopane , but retired after the first round. On February 11th of that year he reached seventh place on the large hill in Pragelato, Italy, and got his first World Cup points. Shortly afterwards he was part of the Polish squad for the 2006 Winter Olympics . He jumped from the normal hill to 16th and from the large hill to 26th place. In team jumping he reached 5th place together with Stefan Hula , Robert Mateja and Adam Małysz .

On October 3, 2007, Kamil Stoch won the Summer Grand Prix jumping in Oberhof with the two best jumps. Shortly afterwards, on December 26, 2007, he became the winner of the Polish championship on large hill in Zakopane. On February 21, 2009 Stoch was fourth on the normal hill at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec, Czech Republic . On March 21, 2009, he and the Polish team won the silver medal in the World Cup in Planica, Slovenia . On January 29, 2011, he celebrated 3rd place in the team competition in Willingen .

At the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver , Canada , Kamil Stoch reached 27th place in jumping from the normal hill. At the beginning of the 2010 summer season, he dominated the Continental Cup and after finishing second at the beginning with a total of six first places, he was finally able to finish the tournament as the overall winner. On January 23, 2011, he won the jumping from the large hill in Zakopane in front of a home crowd and celebrated his first World Cup victory.

In the 2011/12 season, Stoch finished fifth in the overall World Cup and sixth in the ski flying ranking, thus achieving their best results to date.

He finished the Four Hills Tournament 2012/13 with 4th place in the overall ranking, his best placement so far in this competition series. In February 2013, Stoch won his first world title at the 2013 World Championships in Val di Fiemme, Italy . With his teammates Piotr Żyła , Dawid Kubacki and Maciej Kot , he and his team 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.

Stoch is multiple Polish champion both in individual competitions on the large and normal hill as well as with the team of his club AZS Zakopane.

After the 2012/13 season, he was elected to the FIS Athletes' Commission alongside Sabrina Windmüller to represent the interests of the ski jumpers.

On February 9th, Stoch won gold on the normal hill at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, ahead of Peter Prevc and Anders Bardal . Six days later he also won on the large hill in front of Noriaki Kasai and Prevc. With six victories this season in the World Cup, he decided the overall World Cup of the 2013/14 season with 1,420 points.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2015 in Falun , he took 17th place on the normal hill and twelfth place on the large hill. In team jumping he won the bronze medal together with Piotr Żyła, Klemens Murańka and Jan Ziobro .

On December 3, 2016, Stoch won the team competition in Klingenthal together with Piotr Żyła , Dawid Kubacki and Maciej Kot . This was the first victory of a Polish team in a World Cup team competition. On January 6, 2017, he won the Four Hills Tournament for the first time with a day win in Bischofshofen . In the subsequent World Cup competitions on January 14th and 15th, he won both competitions and was the first Pole to win a World Cup on the Malinka in Wisła . On March 4, 2017 he won the gold medal in the team competition at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2017 in Lahti with Piotr Żyła, Dawid Kubacki and Maciej Kot and was thus able to celebrate his second gold medal at the Nordic World Ski Championships.

At the Four Hills Tournament 2017/18 Stoch became the second jumper after Sven Hannawald in the 2001/02 season , who was able to win all four competitions of the competition series within one season. With the victory in Bischofshofen from the previous season, he got five tour day victories in a row. In addition, this season he won the Willingen Five , the Raw Air , the newly introduced Planica 7 , and with 1443 points and 373 points ahead of the runner-up Richard Freitag for the second time after 2013/14 the overall World Cup. At the Ski Flying World Championship 2018 in Oberstdorf he won the silver medal behind Daniel-André Tande in the individual competition and the bronze medal in the team competition together with Piotr Żyła, Stefan Hula and Dawid Kubacki . These were the first medals for Stoch at a ski flying world championship. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , he was again Olympic champion on the large hill in front of Andreas Wellinger and Robert Johansson , after just missing the medal ranks on the normal hill as fourth . In the team competition he won the bronze medal together with Maciej Kot , Stefan Hula and Dawid Kubacki.

Stoch at the 2019 World Cup in Seefeld

At the 2019 World Championships in Seefeld in Tirol , after fifth place on the large hill and fourth place in the team competition, he won the silver medal behind his compatriot Dawid Kubacki in jumping on the normal hill. After the first round on the Toni-Seelos-Olympiaschanze , where he was only 18th, things didn’t look good at first. A brilliant second jump brought him almost to the front. In the final mixed team competition he was sixth with the Polish team.

With his 35th World Cup victory in Zakopane on January 26, 2020, Stoch celebrated at least one victory in every year of the decade. Two weeks later, Stoch reached his 70th podium in the World Cup with third place in Willingen . He achieved his third win of the season at Raw Air 2020 in Lillehammer . In addition, he benefited from the premature termination of the competition series due to the COVID-19 pandemic and thus won the overall ranking of Raw Air for the second time in his career.

In the Four Hills Tournament 2020/21 Stoch started with a second place in Oberstdorf and a fourth place in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . He finished the tour with two victories in Innsbruck and Bischofshofen and thus won the overall tour ranking for the third time. Even in the first World Cup competition after the tour in Titisee-Neustadt , Stoch was unbeatable and with his 39th World Cup victory he equaled Adam Małysz.

successes

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	Type
01.	January 23, 2011	Zakopane	Large hill
02.	February 2, 2011	Klingenthal	Large hill
03.	March 20, 2011	Planica	Ski jump
04th	January 20, 2012	Zakopane	Large hill
05.	5th February 2012	Val di Fiemme	Large hill
06th	12th March 2013	Kuopio	Large hill
07th	15 March 2013	Trondheim	Large hill
08th.	December 15, 2013	Titisee-Neustadt	Large hill
09.	December 22, 2013	Engelberg	Large hill
10.	1st of February 2014	Willingen	Large hill
11.	2nd February 2014	Willingen	Large hill
12th	2nd March 2014	Lahti	Large hill
13th	4th March 2014	Kuopio	Large hill
14th	January 18, 2015	Zakopane	Large hill
15th	January 30, 2015	Willingen	Large hill
16.	December 11, 2016	Lillehammer	Large hill
17th	January 6, 2017	Bischofshofen	Large hill
18th	January 14, 2017	Wisła	Large hill
19th	15th January 2017	Wisła	Large hill
20th	22nd January 2017	Zakopane	Large hill
21st	February 12, 2017	Sapporo	Large hill
22nd	19th March 2017	Vikersund	Ski jump
23	December 30, 2017	Oberstdorf	Large hill
24.	1st January 2018	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Large hill
25th	4th January 2018	innsbruck	Large hill
26th	January 6, 2018	Bischofshofen	Large hill
27	4th March 2018	Lahti	Large hill
28.	March 13, 2018	Lillehammer	Large hill
29	15th March 2018	Trondheim	Large hill
30th	23 March 2018	Planica	Ski jump
31.	March 25, 2018	Planica	Ski jump
32.	3rd February 2019	Oberstdorf	Ski jump
33.	February 10, 2019	Lahti	Large hill
34.	December 21, 2019	Engelberg	Large hill
35.	January 26, 2020	Zakopane	Large hill
36.	March 10, 2020	Lillehammer	Large hill
37.	January 3, 2021	innsbruck	Large hill
38.	January 6, 2021	Bischofshofen	Large hill
39.	January 9, 2021	Titisee-Neustadt	Large hill

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	Type
01.	3rd December 2016	Klingenthal	Large hill
02.	January 28, 2017	Willingen	Large hill
03.	January 27, 2018	Zakopane	Large hill
04th	17th November 2018	Wisła	Large hill
05.	15th February 2019	Willingen	Large hill
06th	23 March 2019	Planica	Ski jump
07th	December 14, 2019	Klingenthal	Large hill

Individual Grand Prix victories

No.	date	place	Type
01.	October 3, 2007	Oberhof	Large hill
02.	August 21, 2010	Wisła	Large hill
03.	August 29, 2010	Hakuba	Large hill
04th	October 3, 2010	Klingenthal	Large hill
05.	August 14, 2011	Einsiedeln	Large hill
06th	October 3, 2011	Klingenthal	Large hill
07th	17th August 2013	Einsiedeln	Large hill
08th.	July 22, 2018	Wisła	Large hill
09.	28th July 2018	Hinterzarten	Normal hill
10.	4th August 2018	Einsiedeln	Large hill
11.	18th August 2019	Zakopane	Large hill

Grand Prix victories in the team

No.	date	place	Type
1.	August 2, 2013	Wisła	Large hill
2.	July 25, 2014	Wisła	Large hill
3.	July 31, 2015	Wisła	Large hill
4th	July 14, 2017	Wisła	Large hill
5.	July 21, 2018	Wisła	Large hill
6th	20th July 2019	Wisła	Large hill

Continental Cup wins in singles

No.	date	place	Type
1.	July 3, 2010	Kranj	Normal hill
2.	4th July 2010	Velenje	Normal hill
3.	July 9, 2010	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Large hill
4th	July 10, 2010	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Large hill
5.	September 25, 2010	Almaty	Large hill
6th	September 26, 2010	Almaty	Normal hill

statistics

World Cup placements

season	place	Points
2004/05	53.	0036
2005/06	45.	0041
2006/07	30th	0168
2007/08	30th	0157
2008/09	30th	0146
2009/10	24.	0203
2010/11	10.	0739
2011/12	05.	1078
2012/13	03.	0953
2013/14	01.	1420
2014/15	09.	0820
2015/16	22nd	0295
2016/17	02.	1524
2017/18	01.	1443
2018/19	03.	1288
2019/20	05.	1031

Stoch in Bischofshofen with the trophy of the overall winner 2016/17

Four Hills Tournament placements

season	place	Points
2005/06	34.	0486.1
2006/07	15th	0810.9
2007/08	21st	0765.7
2008/09	36.	0523.3
2009/10	30th	0540.3
2010/11	15th	0810.4
2011/12	08th.	0843.0
2012/13	04th	1027.2
2013/14	07th	0938.2
2014/15	10.	1009.4
2015/16	23	0800.3
2016/17	01.	0997.8
2017/18	01.	1108.8
2018/19	06th	0994.0
2019/20	13th	1023.6
2020/21	01.	1110.6

Grand Prix placements

season	place	Points
2005	11.	166
2006	37.	066
2007	12th	181
2009	32.	058
2010	02.	500
2011	02.	505
2012	25th	089
2013	09.	227
2014	16.	136
2015	09.	232
2016	03.	315
2017	26th	085
2018	04th	376
2019	15th	138
2020	02.	160

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
Planica	Slovenia	251.5 m ( HS : 225 m)	March 25, 2017	March 24, 2019
Engelberg	Switzerland	143.5 m ( HS : 137 m)	December 18, 2016	December 18, 2016
Zakopane	Poland	141.5 m ( HS : 140 m)	January 27, 2018	19th January 2019
Trondheim	Norway	146.0 m ( HS : 140 m)	15th March 2018	current
Sapporo	Japan	148.5 m ( HS : 137 m)	January 26, 2019	current

Awards

• Poland's Sportsman of the Year : 2014, 2017
• "Nordic Ski King" of the FIS : 2017/18

Web links

Commons : Kamil Stoch  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Kamil Stoch in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Kamil Stoch on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
• Kamil Stoch in the database of Olympedia.org (English)
• Kamil Stoch at the Polish Olympic Committee (Polish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Puchar Solidarności w Zakopanem - October 6, 2012. In: skijumping.pl. Retrieved October 6, 2012 . 
2. ↑ Four Hills Tournament winner. In: berkutschi.com. Retrieved January 8, 2021 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Kamil Stoch . In: Internationales Sportarchiv 40/2016 from October 4th, 2016, supplemented by news from MA-Journal up to week 51/2016.
4. ↑ Uschi Disl : Childhood Heroes: Perfectionist, Erzgebirgler, Pioneer: Three Heroes of the Four Hills Tournament , Junge Welt , issue of January 5, 2018, page 16 / Sport
5. ↑ Jacek Siminski: A Polish athlete won the gold medal using a helmet decorated with the Polish Air Force emblem , The Aviationist, February 10, 2014
6. ↑ Wirtualna Polska Media: takiego Kamila Stocha never znacie. Kibic Liverpool FC, domator, pobożny katolik - 8 - WP SportoweFakty . In: sportowefakty.wp.pl . January 8, 2018 ( wp.pl [accessed February 17, 2018]).
7. ^ Poland Ski Jumping at the 2006 Torino Winter Games. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved April 14, 2009 . 
8. ↑ Kamil Stoch new Polish master. In: rtl.de
9. ^ Result: Ski jumping Olympic Games Vancouver (CAN) HS106 men. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved March 10, 2013 . 
10. ↑ Season overviews. In: fis-ski.com , accessed on March 25, 2012.
11. ↑ Kamil Stoch sails from the large hill to gold. In: skispringen.com , accessed on February 28, 2013.
12. ^ Title to the team from Austria. In: berkutschi.com , accessed March 2, 2013.
13. ↑ Stoch and Windmüller represent ski jumpers in the athletes' commission. In: skispringen.com , accessed on May 6, 2013.
14. ↑ Kerstin Kock: Poland celebrates first World Cup success as a team. In: Skispringen-News.de. December 3, 2016, accessed December 11, 2016 . 
15. ↑ Tour winner Stoch also wins in Titisee-Neustadt - "Eisei" comes fourth. Retrieved January 9, 2021 . 
16. ↑ Kamil Stoch is "Nordic Ski King". In: .fis-ski.com. FIS , October 24, 2018, archived from the original on October 24, 2018 ; accessed on October 24, 2018 (English).