Monika Hojnisz-Staręga

Monika Hojnisz-Staręga
Association	Poland
birthday	27th August 1991 (age 29)
place of birth	Chorzów, Poland
size	170 cm
Weight	51 kg
Career
society	AZS AWF Katowice
Trainer	Michael Greis
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2009
Debut in the World Cup	2010
status	active
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 × EM medals 1 × 0 × 2 × JWM medals 0 × 1 × 2 × JEM medals 1 × 0 × 0 × SWM medals 0 × 3 × 2 × JSWM medals 0 × 0 × 2 × JSEM medals 1 × 1 × 1 ×
Biathlon world championships bronze 2013 Nové Město Mass start  Biathlon Junior World Championships bronze 2010 Torsby sprint bronze 2010 Torsby persecution silver 2012 Kontiolahti singles  European biathlon championships gold 2013 Bansko persecution bronze 2013 Bansko singles bronze 2013 Bansko sprint  Biathlon Junior European Championships gold 2010 Otepää singles  Summer biathlon world championships silver 2015 Cheile Grădiştei sprint silver 2015 Cheile Grădiştei persecution bronze 2016 Otepää Mixed relay silver 2018 Nové Město na Moravě sprint bronze 2018 Nové Město na Moravě Mixed relay  Junior Summer Biathlon World Championships bronze 2010 Duszniki-Zdroj persecution bronze 2010 Duszniki-Zdroj Mixed relay gold 2011 Nové Město persecution silver 2011 Nové Město sprint  Junior Summer Biathlon European Championship bronze 2009 Nové Město Mass start gold 2010 Osrblie persecution silver 2010 Osrblie Mixed
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	10. ( 2018/19 )
Individual World Cup	07. ( 2019/20 )
Sprint World Cup	06. (2018/19)
Pursuit World Cup	15. (2018/19)
Mass start world cup	07. (2019/20)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. singles 0 1 0 Mass start 0 0 1
last change: March 14, 2020

Monika Hojnisz-Staręga (* 27. August 1991 in Chorzów as Monika Hojnisz ) is a Polish biathlete .

Career

Monika Hojnisz-Staręga lives in Chorzów. She competes for AZS AWF Katowice and has been trained by Michael Greis since 2019 . Her older sister Patrycja Hojnisz was also active as a biathlete.

Since the beginning of the 2006/07 season she has been running in the Biathlon European Cup for Juniors and mostly achieved results in the ranks 15 to 50, there were seldom outliers up or down in the performance. A first high point was the participation in the Junior World Championships 2007 in Martell with the ranks 50 in the individual, 56 in the sprint 35 in the pursuit and nine with the Polish relay. In the summer she took part in the junior competitions of the Summer Biathlon World Championships 2007 in Otepää and was there in the cross-country competitions 20th in the sprint and 21st in the mass start, on roller skis 23rd in the sprint and 23rd in the pursuit. The next major event was the 2008 Junior World Championships in Ruhpolding , where Hojnisz-Staręga was 26th in the individual, 20th in the sprint, 12th in the pursuit and tenth in the relay. This was followed by participation in the Junior European Championships . In Nové Město na Moravě she reached the placements 34 in the individual, 40 in the sprint, 33 in the pursuit and in the Polish relay, to which her sister Patrycja belonged, eighth place. In Haute-Maurienne the participation in the junior competitions of the summer biathlon world championships followed . In cross-country she just missed a medal in the sprint race in fifth place and was eleventh in the pursuit race. On roller skis, the Polish woman finished 24th in the sprint.

In Canmore , Hojnisz-Staręga started in 2009 for the third time at the Junior World Championships. In Canada she finished 34th in the individual, 17 in the sprint, 25 in the pursuit and seven with the relay of Poland. She achieved very good results at the Summer Biathlon World Championships 2009 in Oberhof , where she just missed a medal in the junior cross-country competitions after finishing seventh in the sprint in the pursuit as fourth place against the German Nina Stöcker. Also on the roller skis, she just missed a medal in the sprint as fourth behind Anastassija Romanowa and fell back to tenth in the pursuit race. Hojnisz-Staręga finally won a medal in third place in the mass start race at the 2009 Summer Biathlon European Championships in Nové Město na Moravě. Her last and most successful Junior World Championships followed in Torsby . She finished seventh in singles, and won bronze medals in sprints and pursuits. With the season she was also sixth. At the 2010 European Junior Biathlon Championships in Otepää, Hojnisz-Staręga won the individual title, was tenth in the sprint and eleventh in the pursuit. The 2010 Summer Biathlon European Championships in Osrblie were also successful . After a fifth place in the sprint, the Polish won the pursuit title and the silver medal in mixed with Zuzanna Smolec, Mateusz Zawól and Rafal Lepel. Later in the year it was also used in the junior races of the Summer Biathlon World Championships 2010 in Duszniki-Zdrój . In the sprint, she just missed a medal in fourth place, which she won in third place in the pursuit race. She was also third with Maria Bukowska , Łukasz Słonina and Rafał Lepel . This was followed by the junior races of the European Biathlon Championships 2011 in Ridnaun , where she was sixth in the individual and 25th in the sprint. The junior races of the Summer Biathlon World Championships 2011 in Nové Město na Moravě were particularly successful for the Polish woman . In the sprint she finished second behind Olga Galich , in the pursuit race she won gold. In the race with the mixed relay, she was ninth. The last Junior World Championships were the 2012 title fights in Kontiolahti , in which Hojnisz-Staręga won the individual silver medal behind Chardine Sloof , finished fifth in the sprint, fourth in the pursuit and seventh in the relay. Before that she also started in the junior races of the European Championships in Osrblie, where she finished eighth in the individual, 21st in the sprint and 20 in the pursuit.

Since 2008 , Hojnisz-Staręga has started with women in the performance area. She contested her first race in Obertilliach as part of the IBU Cup and finished 25th in an individual, thus winning her first points straight away. In the following sprint she achieved her best result so far in the second highest racing series in tenth place. The first major event outside of the junior area was the 2010 European Biathlon Championships in Otepää. Hojnisz-Staręga started in the individual races with the juniors, then was brought to the women for the relay. With Paulina Bobak , her sister Patrycja and Karolina Pitoń she reached seventh place.

In Östersund Hojnisz-Staręga came at the beginning of the 2010/11 season for her first use in the Biathlon World Cup and was 44 in an individual. So she missed first points by just four places. She won this as 33rd one week later in Hochfilzen and confirmed this performance with 22nd place at the next station in Pokljuka , when she was one of five starters with faultless shooting. In 2011 she started in Khanty-Mansiysk for the first time at the biathlon world championships and was 60th in the individual race in Siberia , 69th in the sprint and ninth in the relay race with Paulina Bobak, Magdalena Gwizdoń and Agnieszka Cyl . At the European Championships 2011 she was used again in the relay race for women and with Beata Szymańczak , her sister Patrycja and Karolina Pitoń eleventh. At the second station in the World Cup in Hochfilzen in the following season , she just missed a first podium finish on the side of Krystyna Pałka , Weronika Nowakowska-Ziemniak and Agnieszka Cyl as fourth. The international championship of 2012 was the European championships, in which Hojnisz-Staręga started in the individual races in the junior women and in the relay race with Karolina Pitoń, Beata Szymańczak and Katarzyna Leja was sixth in the women. The 2012/13 season was successful . Hojnisz-Staręga reached their first top 20 placement in Oberhof as 19th of the sprint. The results at the Biathlon World Championships 2013 in Nové Město na Moravě got even better . She finished 24th in the sprint, improved her personal best placement at the highest level in the subsequent pursuit race to 13th place and thus qualified for the final mass start race, in which she surprisingly won the bronze medal behind Darja Domratschawa and Tora Berger . With Krystyna Pałka, Magdalena Gwizdoń and Weronika Nowakowska-Ziemniak, she was also ninth in the relay. At the Biathlon European Championships in 2013 in Bansko, Hojnisz-Staręga won the bronze medal in the individual and in the sprint, and she won the pursuit race ahead of Franziska Preuß and Karolin Horchler . With the Polish women's relay, which ran in the same line-up as at the World Championships, she finished fourth at the World Cup in Sochi. Her best results in the 2013/14 season were achieved by Hojnisz-Staręga at the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi . With a 21st place in the sprint, a 19th place in the pursuit and a 12th place in the individual, she qualified for the mass start, where she finished fifth with 20 hits. In the relay race she was tenth with the Polish relay.

At the 2015 European Biathlon Championships in Otepää, Hojnisz-Staręga was fifth in the singles and sixteenth in the pursuit, with the relay just missing out on the podium in fourth place. At the subsequent World Cup races in Oslo, she achieved her best individual results of the 2014/15 season when she was 5th in the individual and 7th in the sprint. She achieved another top ten placement at the 2015 Biathlon World Championships in Kontiolahti, where she finished 9th in the individual. In the summer she won silver in the sprint and pursuit at the 2015 Summer Biathlon World Championships in Cheile Grădiștei, Romania. In 2015 , her best individual result of the season was fourth in the Canmore sprint, where she was just 1.7 seconds behind third-placed Dorothea Wierer . In addition, she took fourth place three times with the Polish women's relay, including at the 2016 Biathlon World Championships in Oslo. At the 2016 Summer Biathlon World Championships in Otepää, she finally managed to win a medal again when she won bronze in the Polish mixed relay with Magdalena Gwizdoń, Grzegorz Guzik and Mateusz Janik. In the 2016/17 season, a seventh place in the singles of Antholz was her only World Cup placement in the top 10.

After a mixed start to the 2017/18 season without World Cup points, Hojnisz-Staręga temporarily competed in the second-class IBU Cup, where she won the individual race in Obertilliach and was seventh in the sprint. At the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang 2018 she achieved a 6th place in the individual and a 15th place in the mass start, which were also her best performances of the season. The 2018 Summer Biathlon World Championships in Nové Město na Moravě were more successful than the previous season , where they won two medals. In addition to a fourth place in the pursuit, she won silver in the sprint and bronze with the mixed relay together with Kinga Zbylut , Grzegorz Guzik and Łukasz Szczurek .

In the individual race at Pokljuka 2018 , Hojnisz-Staręga achieved her second podium finish in the World Cup with second place, in which she only had to admit defeat to the faultless Ukrainian Julija Dschyma with one mistake . In Hochfilzen she was 5th in the sprint and was able to take the lead in the pursuit with a good ten seconds lead thanks to an error-free shooting after the fourth shooting. Since she couldn't keep up with the athletes behind her in the last lap, she finished fourth.

Private

In June 2019 Monika Hojnisz married the Polish cross-country skier Maciej Staręga and has since competed under the double name Hojnisz-Staręga .

statistics

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	1					1
3rd place				1		1
Top 10	5	5	2	2	26th	40
Scoring	14th	40	31	15th	42	142
Starts	21st	64	43	15th	42	185
Status: end of season 2018/19

winter Olympics

	Individual competitions				Relay competitions
	sprint	persecution	singles	Mass start	Women's relay	Mixed relay
2014 Winter Olympics Sochi	21st	19th	12.	5.	10.	-
Olympic Winter Games 2018 Pyeongchang	45.	43.	6th	15th	7th	-

World championships

	Individual competitions				Relay competitions
	sprint	persecution	singles	Mass start	Women's relay	Mixed relay
World Championships 2011 Khanty-Mansiysk	68.	-	59.	-	9.	-
World Championships 2013 Nové Město na Moravě	24.	13.	-	3.	9.	-
World Championships 2015 Kontiolahti	74.	-	9.	-	12.	-
World Championships 2016 Oslo	44.	29	40.	-	4th	-
World Championships 2017 Hochfilzen	39.	51.	30th	-	7th	-
World Championships 2019 Ostersund	34.	DNS	39.	13.	7th	-
World Championships 2020 Antholz	28.	26th	6th	4th	7th	-

Web links

Commons : Monika Hojnisz-Staręga  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Monika Hojnisz-Staręga in the IBU database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Monika Hojnisz-Starega. Eurosport , accessed February 23, 2020 .