Michal Žák

Michal Žák
Association	Czech Republic
birthday	April 3, 1991
place of birth	Czechoslovakia
Career
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2009
status	active
Medal table
JWM medals 0 × 0 × 1 × SJWM medals 0 × 1 × 1 × SJEM medals 0 × 0 × 2 ×
Biathlon Junior World Championships bronze 2012 Kontiolahti Season  Junior Summer Biathlon World Championships silver 2012 Ufa sprint bronze 2012 Ufa Season  Junior Summer Biathlon European Championship bronze 2011 Martell sprint bronze 2011 Martell Mixed relay
World Cup balance
last change: March 20, 2014

Michal Žák (born April 3, 1991 ) is a Czech biathlete .

Michal Žák celebrated most of his successes in the youth and junior sector in summer biathlon . At the Summer Biathlon European Championships 2011 in Martell he won the bronze medal in sprint and mixed relay races behind Iwan Morawskyj and Yuriy Kopchak , at the Summer Biathlon World Championships 2012 in Ufa he was runner- up behind Alexander Pechonkin on the track and won with Kristýna Černá , Jessica Jislová , Matěj Krupčík in the mixed relay bronze. He is also mainly active in winter. In the junior races of theAt the 2011 European Biathlon Championships in Ridnaun he was 42nd in the individual, 12th in the sprint and 26th in the pursuit, in 2012 he achieved his best result in the individual in Osrblie with eighth place and was also 30th in the sprint and 28th in the pursuit. At the Junior World Championships 2012 in Kontiolahti , Žák won the silver medal with Vlastimil Vávra , Matěj Krupčík and Michal Krčmář in the relay race and was also 39th in the individual, 45th in the sprint and 41st in the pursuit.

With the men Žák made his debut in 2008 in Nové Město na Moravě with the men in the IBU Cup and was 63rd a sprint race. A year later he achieved his best result in the racing series to date, finishing 50th in an individual. The first international championships in the performance area were the 2014 European Championships in Nové Město na Moravě. In his Czech homeland, Žák was 66th of the individual, 21st of the sprint, 37th of the pursuit and with Lukáš Kristejn , Matěj Krupčík and Michal Krčmář ninth in the relay race.

Web links

• Michal Žák in the IBU database (English)