Martin Koukal

Martin Koukal
at the Tour de Ski 2010 in Oberhof
nation	Czech Republic
birthday	25th September 1978 (age 41)
place of birth	Nové Město na Moravě ,  Czechoslovakia
Career
society	Dukla Liberec
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 1 × 0 × 1 × JWM medals 0 × 0 × 2 × National medals 1 × 5 × 0 ×
winter Olympics bronze 2010 Vancouver Season  Nordic World Ski Championships gold 2003 Val di Fiemme 50 km freestyle bronze 2005 Oberstdorf Team sprint  Nordic Junior Ski World Championships bronze 1997 Canmore 30 km freestyle bronze 1998 Pontresina 10 km freestyle
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
Debut in the World Cup December 13, 1997  World Cup victories in the team 1 ( details )  Overall World Cup 23rd ( 2002/03 )  Sprint World Cup 16. ( 2003/04 )  Distance World Cup 22. ( 2006/07 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Sprint races 0 1 1  Season 1 0 2  Team sprint 0 0 1
Placements in the Continental Cup (COC)
Debut in the Continental Cup January 21, 2005  Continental Cup victories 3 ( details )  SC overall rating 7. ( 2013/14 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  OPA individual race 1 1 1  NAC individual races 1 1 1  SC individual race 1 2 1
Placements in the marathon or Worldloppet Cup
Debut in the Cup March 9, 2003  Worldloppet Cup victories 1 ( details )  Overall rating 3rd ( 2013/14 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single race 1 2 1
last change: October 3, 2015

Martin Koukal (born September 25, 1978 in Nové Město na Moravě ) is a former Czech cross-country skier and four-time Olympic athlete (1998, 2002, 2006, 2010).

Career

Koukal, who started for the Dukla Liberec , was able to celebrate his first successes as a junior. At the Junior World Championships in Calgary in 1997 , he finished third over 30 kilometers in freestyle. He was able to confirm this success a year later in the title fights in St. Moritz when he also won the silver medal in free technique over 10 km. He ran his first world cup races at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Trondheim in 1997 . There he finished 79th place over 10 km classic, 37th place in the pursuit and got his first World Cup points with 27th place over 30 km freestyle.

1998 Winter Olympics

At his first Olympic participation in 1998 in Nagano , he came 37th in the pursuit and 35th place over 10 km classic. In November 1998 he reached his first top ten placement in the World Cup with seventh place over 10 km freestyle in Muonio . His best placings at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1999 in Ramsau am Dachstein were 22nd place over 30 km freestyle and eighth place with the relay.

In December 1999 he came on the podium for the first time in the World Cup in Garmisch-Partenkirchen with third place in the sprint. His best result at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2001 in Lahti was 14th place in the relay and in the sprint. In the 2001/02 season he achieved three top ten results in the individual World Cup. He was also third in March 2002 in Lahti together with Lukáš Bauer in the team sprint.

2002 Winter Olympics

His best results at the season highlight, the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, were tenth place in the sprint and seventh place in the relay. In the following season he finished in the top ten four times in the individual World Cup and reached 23rd place in the overall World Cup and 20th place in the Sprint World Cup. This was his best result in the overall World Cup. At the season highlight of the 2003 World Cup in Val di Fiemme , he won the gold medal in the 50 km freestyle. He was also seventh in the relay, sixth in the skiathlon and fifth in the sprint. In March 2003, he took second place in the Engadin Skimarathon .

In the 2003/04 season he reached seven sprint participations in the World Cup, two top ten placements, including second place in the sprint in Düsseldorf at the beginning of the 2003/04 season and thus finished 16th in the Sprint World Cup .

The following year he won the bronze medal in the team sprint at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf together with Dušan Kožíšek . He also achieved 52nd place in the 15 km freestyle, 27th place in the skiathlon and eighth place with the relay. In March 2005 he was fourth in the Wasalauf and won the 10 km freestyle at the Nor-Am Cup in Winter Park .

2006 Winter Olympics

His best placings at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin were ninth place with the relay and seventh place in the 50 km mass start race. At the beginning of the 2006/07 season he finished third in Gällivare with the relay. In the further course of the season he came three times in the top ten and reached 22nd place in the Distance World Cup. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo in 2007 , he finished 26th in the 15 km freestyle, 21st place in the 50 km mass start race and eighth place with the relay.

After first place in the relay in Davos at the beginning of the 2007/08 season, he achieved twelfth place overall in the 2007/08 Tour de Ski with two top ten results. In February 2008, he finished third with the relay in Falun . He finished the season in 33rd place in the overall World Cup. In the following season, which he finished in 45th place in the overall world cup , he came ninth in the cross-country skiing world cup finals in Falun. He achieved third place in the prologue race over 3.3 km freestyle.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec in 2009 he came eleventh in the relay, ninth in the skiathlon and seventh in the 50 km mass start race. In the Olympic season 2009/10 he finished 28th in the Tour de Ski 2009/10 and first place in the sprint at the Czech championships.

2010 Winter Olympics

At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , he won the bronze medal with the relay. He also came in 18th place over 15 km freestyle and in sixth place together with Dušan Kožíšek in the team sprint. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo in 2011 , he finished 51st in the skiathlon, 23rd in the 50 km mass start race and in the sprint and eighth in the sprint.

From the 2011/12 season until his last active season 2013/14 he started in the Marathon Cup for the Skinfit Racing Team . He won the Finlandia-hiihto classic over 50 km in 2012 and came third in the Transjurassienne . In 2014 he came second in the Dolomitenlauf . He achieved seventh place in the overall ranking of the Marathon Cup in the 2011/12 season and third place in the 2013/14 season . Also in his last active season he won the Slavic Cup in Horni Misecky over 15 km freestyle and came in second place over 10 km classic. With that he finished seventh overall.

successes

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	December 9, 2007	Davos	4 × 10 km relay 1

¹With Martin Jakš , Lukáš Bauer and Milan Šperl .

Victories in Continental Cup races

No.	date	place	discipline	series
1.	March 31, 2005	Winter park	10 km freestyle	Nor-Am Cup
2.	December 15, 2007	St. Ulrich am Pillersee	10 km freestyle	Alpine Cup
3.	December 22, 2013	Horní Mísečky	15 km freestyle	Slavic Cup

Victories in Worldloppet Cup races

Note: Before the 2015/16 season, the Worldloppet Cup was still called the Marathon Cup .

No.	date	place	run	discipline
1.	February 25, 2012	Lahti	Finlandia-hiihto	50 km classic mass start

Participation in World Championships and Olympic Winter Games

Olympic games

• 1998 Nagano : 35th place 10 km classic, 37th place 25 km pursuit
• 2002 Salt Lake City : 7th place relay, 10th place sprint freestyle, 20th place 30 km freestyle mass start, 44th place 20 km pursuit
• 2006 Turin : 7th place 50 km freestyle mass start, 9th place relay, 10th place team sprint classic, 15th place sprint freestyle, 21st place 30 km pursuit,
• 2010 Vancouver : 3rd place relay, 6th place team sprint freestyle, 18th place 15 km freestyle

Nordic World Ski Championships

• 1997 Trondheim : 27th place 30 km freestyle, 37th place 25 km pursuit, 79th place 10 km classic
• 1999 Ramsau : 8th place relay, 22nd place 30 km freestyle, 23rd place 25 km pursuit, 46th place 10 km classic
• 2001 Lahti : 14th place relay, 14th place sprint freestyle, 37th place 20 km pursuit, 38th place 50 km freestyle, 51st place 15 km classic
• 2003 Val di Fiemme : 1st place 50 km freestyle, 5th place sprint freestyle, 6th place 2 × 10 km double pursuit, 7th place relay
• 2005 Oberstdorf : 3rd place team sprint freestyle, 8th place relay, 27th place 30 km pursuit, 52nd place 15 km freestyle
• 2007 Sapporo : 8th place relay, 21st place 50 km classic mass start, 26th place 15 km freestyle
• 2009 Liberec : 7th place 50 km freestyle mass start, 9th place 30 km pursuit, 11th place relay
• 2011 Oslo : 8th place relay, 23rd place sprint freestyle, 23rd place 50 km freestyle mass start, 51st place 30 km pursuit

Placements in the World Cup

World Cup Statistics

The table shows the placements achieved in detail.

• 1st – 3rd place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of places in the top ten
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline
• Note: In the distance races, the classification is based on the FIS.

placement	Distance races a					Skiathlon pursuit	sprint	Stage race b	total	Team c
	≤ 5 km	≤ 10 km	≤ 15 km	≤ 30 km	> 30 km					sprint	Season
1st place											1
2nd place							1		1
3rd place							1		1	1	2
Top 10	1	2	4th	1		1	8th	1	18th	7th	17th
Scoring	1	5	17th	4th	4th	5	20th	3	59	13	22nd
Starts	1	17th	47	11	5	14th	43	3	141	13	22nd
Status: end of season 2014/15

^a including individual starts and mass starts according to FIS classification

^bEntire race, not individual stages, e.g. B. Tour de Ski, Nordic Opening, season finale

^c Possibly incomplete due to a lack of suitable sources before 2001

World Cup overall placements

season	total		distance		sprint
	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space
1996/97	4th	94.	-	-	-	-
1997/98	-	-	-	-	-	-
1998/99	87	31.	43	28 1	36	51.
1999/2000	90	50.	6 24	66. 1 52. 2	60	25th
2000/01	83	52.	-	-	98	21st
2001/02	124	41.	-	-	73	26th
2002/03	217	23.	-	-	107	20th
2003/04	116	48.	-	-	116	16.
2004/05	72	59.	31	50.	41	31.
2005/06	47	86.	36	69.	11	60.
2006/07	124	42.	124	22nd	-	-
2007/08	230	33.	95	38.	47	49.
2008/09	170	45.	112	36.	-	-
2009/10	130	55.	30th	75.	88	27.
2010/11	26th	114.	-	-	26th	76.

¹ Long distance world cup

² Middle distance world cup

Web links

• Homepage of Martin Koukal (Czech)
• Martin Koukal in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Martin Koukal in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Martin Koukal - national coach of the juniors

Individual evidence

1. ^ Result OS 2010 team sprint