Kamila Żuk

Kamila Żuk
Association	Poland
birthday	18th November 1997 (age 22)
place of birth	Wałbrzych , Poland
Career
job	college student
society	KS AZS-AWF Katowice
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2015
Debut in the World Cup	2015
status	active
Medal table
JWM medals 2 × 2 × 0 × JEM medals 0 × 0 × 1 × SJWM medals 1 × 2 × 0 ×
Biathlon Junior World Championships gold 2018 Otepää singles gold 2018 Otepää sprint silver 2018 Otepää persecution silver 2019 Osrblie sprint  Biathlon Junior European Championships bronze 2017 Nové Město sprint  Junior Summer Biathlon World Championships gold 2018 Nové Město sprint silver 2018 Nové Město persecution silver 2018 Nové Město Season
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	38th ( 2019/20 )
Sprint World Cup	20. (2019/20)
Pursuit World Cup	48th ( 2018/19 )
Mass start world cup	30. (2019/20)
Continental Cup balance
Overall IBU Cup	45th ( 2017/18 )
last change: August 20, 2020

Kamila Żuk (born November 18, 1997 in Wałbrzych ) is a Polish biathlete .

Career

Beginnings

Kamila Żuk competed in international competitions for the first time at the 2015 Junior World Championships in Minsk . With a 13th place in the sprint, she came in a race among the top twenty athletes. The following season she started for the first time in a race of the IBU Cup . In her first race she finished 48th in the sprint in Idre . At the end of the year she also started in the World Cup for the first time . With a 75th place in the sprint in Pokljuka , however, she did not qualify for the subsequent pursuit. At the Junior World Championships in 2016 in Cheile Grădiştei , she improved her position in the sprint from last year by two places to eleventh place. She also reached the top thirty in the individual and in the pursuit.

In the next season she started in the season opener in Östersund in the World Cup and reached the 66th place in the individual with seven shooting errors. She also started in the IBU Cup this season and was able to qualify for a pursuit race within the IBU Cup for the first time with a 28th place in Martell . At the 2017 European Junior Championships she won the bronze medal in the sprint.

Since 2017/18 - First World Cup points and first Olympic Games

In the 2017/18 season , Żuk mainly started in the IBU Cup and reached 45th place in the overall standings at the end of the season. At the 2018 Winter Olympics , she started in the mixed relay race and reached 16th place with Magdalena Gwizdoń , Andrzej Nędza-Kubiniec and Grzegorz Guzik . She also started at the following Junior World Championships and won a medal in all individual races. She was first in the individual and sprint and second in the pursuit. With the season she reached the fifth place. After the Junior World Championships she started again in the World Cup and won her first World Cup points with a 35th place in the sprint and a 33rd place in the pursuit in Oslo . At the World Cup final in Tyumen she just missed the points with two 42nd places in the sprint and pursuit.

From winter 2018/19 Żuk established himself in the Polish World Cup team. In February 2019 she hit the Midway sprint for the first time in a World Cup race with all shots and placed sixth, almost 40 seconds behind the winner Marte Olsbu Røiseland . With two mistakes, she reached eighth place in the subsequent pursuit. In the Polish World Cup relays, Żuk regularly took the position of the last runner in 2018/19 and crossed the finish line in seventh place at the World Championships . In the 2019/20 season, she achieved two more top ten results in the World Cup in the sprints in Oberhof and Ruhpolding in January and was ranked 38th overall in the winter - as the second best Polish woman (after Monika Hojnisz-Staręga ) and the second youngest athlete among the first 40 (after Elvira Öberg ).

statistics

Biathlon World Cup placements

The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including the Olympic Games and World Championships).

• 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline
• Relay: including mixed relays

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10		3	1		4th	8th
Scoring		7th	4th	2	13	26th
Starts	7th	26th	10	2	14th	59
Status: end of season 2019/20

winter Olympics

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

	Individual competitions				Relay competitions
	sprint	persecution	singles	Mass start	Women's relay	Mixed relay
Olympic Winter Games 2018 | Pyeongchang	-	-	-	-	-	16.

World championships

Results at the World Championships:

World championships		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay	Single mixed relay
year	place
2019	Ostersund	48.	46.	36.	-	7th	-	-
2020	Antholz	84.	58.	-	-	7th	-	18th

Junior World Championships

World Championship		singles	sprint	persecution	Season
year	place
2015	Minsk	50.	13.	58.	9.
2016	Cheile Grădiştei	28.	11.	29	5
2017	Osrblie	49.	27.	10.	10.
2018	Otepää	1.	1.	2.	5.
2019	Osrblie	7th	2.	DNS	10.

Web links

Commons : Kamila Żuk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Kamila Żuk in the IBU database (English)