Tomasz Sikora

Tomasz Sikora
Full name	Tomasz Sikora
Association	Poland
birthday	December 21, 1973
place of birth	Wodzisław Śląski
Career
society	NGKS Dynamit Chorzow
Debut in the World Cup	1993
World Cup victories	5
status	resigned
End of career	2012
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 1 × 1 × JWM medals 0 × 1 × 0 × EM medals 6 × 4 × 2 ×
winter Olympics silver 2006 Turin Mass start  Biathlon world championships gold 1995 Antholz singles bronze 1997 Osrblie team silver 2004 Oberhof singles  European biathlon championships gold 2000 Zakopane persecution silver 2000 Zakopane Season silver 2001 Haute Maurienne Season silver 2002 Kontiolahti singles bronze 2002 Kontiolahti sprint gold 2004 Minsk singles gold 2004 Minsk persecution silver 2004 Minsk sprint bronze 2004 Minsk Season gold 2007 Bansko sprint gold 2007 Bansko persecution gold 2008 Nove Mesto singles  Biathlon Junior World Championships silver 1993 Ruhpolding sprint  Winter Universiade gold 1999 Poprad sprint gold 1999 Poprad persecution silver 1999 Poprad singles gold 2001 Zakopane sprint gold 2001 Zakopane singles gold 2001 Zakopane persecution
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	2. ( 2008/09 )
Individual World Cup	3rd ( 2003/04 )
Sprint World Cup	1.  ( 2005/06 )
Pursuit World Cup	3rd ( 2008/09 )
Mass start world cup	3rd ( 2005/06 )
last change: January 3, 2013

Tomasz Sikora (born December 21, 1973 in Wodzisław Śląski ) is a former Polish biathlete who competed for the NGKS Dynamit Chorzow .

Career

Sikora reached second place over 10 km at the Junior World Championships in 1993 and was world champion over 20 km at the Biathlon World Championships in 1995 . He won silver at the 2004 World Championships again over the 20 km. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, he won the silver medal in the 15 km mass start.

After his world title in 1995 , Tomasz Sikora had to wait eleven years for his second victory; this he succeeded on March 19, 2006 in the mass start in Kontiolahti . In the 2005/06 season, the Pole won the World Cup discipline in sprint. Still, it took almost two years before he could celebrate his next success. On January 5, 2008, he emerged as the winner in the Oberhof sprint . Another victory in the mass start he managed on March 9, 2008 in Khanty-Mansiysk . At the beginning of the 2008/09 season , Sikora won a pursuit race for the first time in Östersund. Further podium placements and top 10 results followed in the course of the season, so that in the end Tomasz Sikora's most successful World Cup season was Tomasz Sikora's most successful World Cup with second place in the overall World Cup and third in the Pursuit discipline. Tomasz Sikora took part in the 2010 Winter Olympics. His best result was the 7th place in the individual. In the mass start he was 11th in the sprint 29th and in the pursuit Sikora took 18th place.

After the 2011/12 season he ended his sporting career. With six titles and 14 medals in total , Sikora is still the most successful participant in the European biathlon championships.

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 relay

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	team	Season	total
1st place	1	1	1	2			5
2nd place	2	2	3	2			9
3rd place	2	3	3	1	1	1	11
Top 10	24	24	24	19th	1	26th	118
Scoring	49	88	63	43	1	70	314
Starts	75	144	82	44	1	72	418

Web links

Commons : Tomasz Sikora  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Tomasz Sikora's website
• Tomasz Sikora in the database of the IBU (English)
• Tomasz Sikora at biathlon.xc-ski.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tomasz Sikora zakończył karierę (Polish)