Szczepan Kupczak

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Szczepan Kupczak Nordic combination
Kupczak at the 2019 World Cup in Seefeld

Kupczak at the 2019 World Cup in Seefeld

nation PolandPoland Poland
birthday November 29, 1992
place of birth Juszczyna
Career
society KS AZS-AWF Katowice
status active
Medal table
Universiade medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
National medals 2 × gold 2 × silver 6 × bronze
Logo of the FISU Winter Universiade
gold 2013 Trentino team
bronze 2015 Štrbské Pleso singles
Polish Ski Association logo Polish championships
bronze 2012 Zakopane Winter team sprint
silver 2013 Zakopane Summer single GS
bronze 2014 Wisła Summer single GS
bronze 2015 Wisła Summer single GS
bronze 2015 Szczyrk Summer single NS
bronze 2015 Szczyrk Winter single NS
bronze 2017 Szczyrk Summer single
gold 2018 Zakopane Summer single
silver 2019 Szczyrk Summer single
gold 2020 Szczyrk Winter single
Placements in the World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup November 30, 2013
 Overall World Cup 35th ( 2018/19 )
Placements in the Grand Prix
 Debut in the Grand Prix August 24, 2013
 Overall rating 09. ( 2019 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 singles 0 0 2
Placements in the Continental Cup (COC)
 Debut in the COC February 27, 2010
 Overall ranking COC 60th ( 2012/13 )
last change: February 15, 2020

Szczepan Kupczak (born November 29, 1992 in Juszczyna ) is a Polish Nordic combined athlete .

Career

Kupczak completed his first international race on February 27, 2010 at a Continental Cup competition in Karpacz , where he finished 39th. He made his debut in the Nordic Combined World Cup on November 30, 2013 in Kuusamo, Finland . Kupczak took part in the 2013 Winter Universiade in Trentino . There he finished 23rd in the Gundersen competition on the normal hill and fifth in the mass start. Together with Paweł Słowiok and Adam Cieślar , he won the team competition. At the Universiade 2015 he reached third place in the individual and fourth in the team with Cieślar and Mateusz Wantulok. A month later he achieved 37th place in the Gundersen competition on the normal hill at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2015 in Falun .

In February 2018, Kupczak took part in the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , where he finished 25th and 39th in the individual. Together with Paweł Słowiok , Wojciech Marusarz and Adam Cieślar he finished ninth with the team.

The 2018/19 World Cup season was very successful for Kupczak. So he regularly demonstrated his jumping skills, so that he was ultimately the sixth best ski jumper among the combiners. However, his poor mileage often threw him back, which is why he only reached 35th place in the overall standings. At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2019 in Seefeld , he took 25th place on the large hill on the Gundersen and 18th place on the normal hill. In addition, he was eighth in both the team sprint and with the team.

In summer 2019 , Kupczak reached the podium at the highest level for the first time when he finished third behind Franz-Josef Rehrl and Akito Watabe at the mass start in Klingenthal . He achieved this placement again a few days later at the Gundersen competition in Oberhof . He finished the overall Grand Prix ranking in a strong ninth place. In winter , too, Kupczak was the only competitive Polish combined athlete in the World Cup circuit, but he also occasionally reached the points, but initially could not confirm his performances from the summer. Only after a strong jump in the Nordic Combined Triples at the end of January 2020 in Seefeld did he achieve his best individual result in twelfth place.

statistics

World Cup placements

season space Points
2015/16 51. 013
2017/18 45. 029
2018/19 35. 088
2019/20 37. 042

Grand Prix placements

season space Points
2013 32. 013
2014 33. 016
2015 31. 016
2017 51. 010
2018 33. 034
2019 09. 145

Continental Cup placements

season space Points
2012/13 60. 044
2013/14 81. 009
2014/15 74. 020th

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