Stefan Hula (ski jumper)

Stefan Hula
Stefan Hula 2011
nation	Poland
birthday	29th September 1986 (age 33)
place of birth	Bielsko-Biała , Poland
size	173 cm
Weight	56 kg
Career
society	KS Eve- nement Zakopane
Pers. Best	236.0 m ( Planica 2018)
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × SFWM medals 0 × 0 × 1 × JWM medals 0 × 1 × 0 × National medals 1 × 1 × 5 ×
winter Olympics bronze 2018 Pyeongchang team  Ski flying world championships bronze 2018 Oberstdorf team  Nordic Junior Ski World Championships silver 2004 Stryn team  Polish championships bronze 2009 Szczyrk Normal hill bronze 2010 Szczyrk Normal hill bronze 2010 Zakopane Large hill bronze 2011 Wisła Large hill silver 2016 Wisła Large hill gold 2017 Wisła Large hill bronze 2018 Zakopane Large hill
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	0January 8, 2005 (team) 0January 4, 2006 (individual)
World Cup victories (team)	01 ( details )
Overall World Cup	13. ( 2017/18 )
Ski flying world cup	15. ( 2017/18 )
Four Hills Tournament	12. ( 2017/18 )
Raw Air	13. ( 2018 )
Nordic Tournament	27. (2009)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Team jumping 1 4th 2
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Debut in the Grand Prix	August 27, 2005
Overall Grand Prix	09. ( 2018 )
Ski Jumping Continental Cup (COC)
Debut in the COC	0February 1, 2003
COC wins (individual)	02 ( details )
Overall ranking COC	16. ( 2013/14 , 2014/15 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 2 9 5
last change: February 9, 2020

Stefan Jarosław Hula (junior) (born September 29, 1986 in Bielsko-Biała ) is a Polish ski jumper . His greatest sporting successes to date are the bronze medals in team jumping at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang and at the 2018 Ski Flying World Championships in Oberstdorf .

Career

Hula made his debut on February 1st and 2nd, 2003 in Braunlage in the Continental Cup . At the Junior World Championships in 2004 in Stryn , Norway , Hula won the silver medal in the team competition with the Polish team. Hula made his debut in the team competition of the Ski Jumping World Cup in January 2005 in Willingen , where he finished tenth with the Polish team. In his first individual competition in the Ski Jumping World Cup on January 4, 2006 as part of the Four Hills Tournament in Bischofshofen , he did not get past 47th place. A good three weeks later he was able to jump into the points in Zakopane as 22nd for the first time. At the ski flying world championship in 2006 at the Kulm in Tauplitz / Bad Mitterndorf he finished 37th in the individual and ninth place with the Polish team. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , he achieved fifth place in the team competition when jumping from the large hill and 29th place in the individual competition on the normal hill.

At the Ski Flying World Championships in Oberstdorf in 2008 he finished tenth with the Polish team. On January 31, 2009, he achieved his first top ten placement in an individual World Cup competition in Sapporo when he finished tenth . At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec in 2009 , he finished 26th on the normal hill. In the team competition, he took fourth place with the Polish team. On March 21, 2009, he finished second with the team in Planica . For Hula it was the first podium finish in the World Cup. He won his first Continental Cup on September 3, 2009 at the summer jumping competition in Pyeongchang, Korea . At the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver , Hula retired in jumping on the normal hill, tied with Pascal Bodmer as 31st after the first round. In the individual on the large hill he reached the finals and took 19th place. He finished sixth with the Polish team. At the Ski Flying World Championships 2010 in Planica, he finished fourth with the Polish team.

His best result to date in an individual World Cup competition was achieved from the Gross-Titlis-Schanze in Engelberg on December 19, 2010 with a seventh place. At the end of January 2011, he was able to achieve another podium finish as third place in the team competition in Willingen . At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo , he finished 33rd in the individual on the large hill. In the team competitions he and the Polish team took fourth place on the normal hill and fifth on the large hill.

On February 3, 2013, he celebrated his first Continental Cup victory on snow on the Bloudkova Velikanka in Planica , after taking second place behind the Austrian Stefan Kraft in the first competition on this hill on the same day .

At the 2016 Ski Flying World Championships on Kulm , Hula took 21st place in the individual competition and fifth place with the Polish team. On January 23, 2016, he reached third place in the World Cup team competition in Zakopane, his first podium finish since January 2011 and his third overall. On February 23, 2016, he improved his best individual World Cup placement with a sixth place in Kuopio . He finished the season 26th in the overall World Cup and thus for the first time among the top 30.

On December 26th, 2017 he won his first national championship title at the Polish Championships 2017 on the Adam-Małysz-Schanze in Wisła, ahead of Piotr Żyła and Kamil Stoch . In the 2017/18 World Cup season he improved his best individual World Cup placement twice. First he succeeded in this as fifth in Oberstdorf as part of the Four Hills Tournament 2017/18 and then fourth on January 28, 2018 in Zakopane. He also landed a total of four times on the podium in the World Cup with the Polish team. He also achieved his first World Cup victory in the team on January 27, 2018 in Zakopane. At the Ski Flying World Championships 2018 in Oberstdorf he finished 13th in the individual competition and won the bronze medal in the team competition together with Piotr Żyła, Dawid Kubacki and Kamil Stoch. In February 2018 he took part in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang and competed in all three competitions. In the individual competition on the normal hill he was in the lead after the first round with 5.9 points ahead of his compatriot Kamil Stoch. In the final round, however, he fell back to fifth place and thus missed a medal. In the individual competition on the large hill , he took 15th place. In the team competition on the large hill , he won the bronze medal behind the teams from Norway and Germany in third place together with Maciej Kot , Dawid Kubacki and Kamil Stoch. He finished the 2017/18 season with 431 points in 13th place in the overall World Cup and thus achieved his best career result.

At the 2019 World Championships in Seefeld in Tirol , he took fourth place in team jumping with the Polish men's team. He was twelfth in the individual jumping on the normal hill.

successes

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	Type
1.	January 27, 2018	Zakopane	Large hill

Continental Cup wins in singles

No.	date	place	Type
1.	September 3, 2009	Pyeongchang	Normal hill
2.	3rd February 2013	Planica	Large hill

statistics

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
2005/06	54.	019th
2006/07	60.	026th
2007/08	72.	010
2008/09	44.	051
2009/10	63.	020th
2010/11	39.	095
2012/13	54.	028
2013/14	79.	003
2014/15	78.	004th
2015/16	26th	227
2016/17	32.	110
2017/18	13.	431
2018/19	40.	069
2019/20	46.	031

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
2005	57.	010
2006	78.	002
2008	62.	016
2009	53.	022nd
2010	18th	123
2011	73.	009
2013	25th	111
2014	65.	013
2015	77.	009
2016	21st	098
2017	10.	175
2018	09.	197
2019	53.	020th

family

Hula is married and has two children. His father of the same name was a successful Nordic combined skier and won the bronze medal at the 1974 Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun . Hula currently lives in Szczyrk with his wife and children .

Web links

Commons : Stefan Hula  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Stefan Hula in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Stefan Hula on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
• Stefan Hula in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Overview of results at www.fis-ski.com , accessed on December 26, 2011.
2. ↑ result in www.berkutschi.com , accessed December 26, 2011th
3. ↑ Stefan Hula wins Polish championship title in Wisla. In: skispringen.com. December 26, 2017. Retrieved December 26, 2017 .