Michał Kądzioła

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Michał Kądzioła Volleyball (beach)
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birthday May 28, 1989
place of birth Dąbrowa Górnicza , Poland
size 1.94 m
partner since 2007 Jakub Szałankiewicz
World ranking Position 21
successes
2007 - Junior World Champion
2009 - Junior World Champion
2010 - U23 European Champion
(As of October 2, 2013)

Michał Krzysztof Kądzioła (born May 28, 1989 in Dąbrowa Górnicza ) is a Polish beach volleyball player .

Career

Kądzioła began his international career in 2007 with Jakub Szałankiewicz , who is still his partner today. In front of their home crowd in Mysłowice , Kądzioła / Szałankiewicz won the World Youth Championship. Shortly afterwards they completed their first open tournament in Stare Jabłonki . The following year they regularly took part in this international series. They qualified for the 2008 European Championship in Hamburg , where they finished 25th after two defeats. Shortly afterwards they finished fifth at the Junior World Championships in Brighton . In 2009 the two Poles played their first Grand Slams. After finishing fourth at the U23 European Championship in Jantarny , they won their second junior title at the Junior World Championships in Blackpool . In 2010 they had no win in the preliminary round of the European Championships in Berlin , but then they secured their next title in the U23 in Kos . A year later they took part in the World Cup in Rome . There they reached the first knockout round as third party in the group, in which they had to admit defeat to the future finalists Márcio Araújo and Ricardo Santos from Brazil. This time they lost in the final at the U23 European Championship in Porto . In 2012 they reached fourth place at the European Championships in Scheveningen . Kądzioła / Szałankiewicz had several top ten placements on the FIVB World Tour in 2013 and ended up ninth at the World Cup in Stare Jabłonki when they were eliminated in the round of 16 against the German Erdmann / Matysik .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. FIVB world rankings September 30, 2013