Maciej Kot

Maciej Kot
Country  Poland
Born (1991-06-09) 9 June 1991
Limanowa, Poland
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Ski club AZS Zakopane
Personal best 231.0 m (757.9 ft)
Planica, 20 Mar 2016
World Cup career
Seasons 2007–present
Team podiums 5
Indiv. starts 122
Medal record
Men's ski jumping
World Championships
2013 Val di Fiemme Team LH
Updated on 20 March 2016.

Maciej Kot (born 9 June 1991) is a Polish ski jumper, a member of the national team, a participant of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, a bronze medalist in team at 2013 World Championship.

Personal life

Maciej Kot was born in Limanowa, Poland, but raised in Zakopane. His father Rafał was a physiotherapist for the Polish ski jumping team. Maciej's older brother Jakub (born 1990) is ski jumper as well. Maciej Kot is studying physical education at University School of Physical Education in Krakow.

Medal ceremony - bronze medal in World Championship 2013 in team: with Kamil Stoch, Dawid Kubacki and Piotr Żyła.

Career

Kot's debut in FIS Ski Jumping World Cup took place in December 2007 in Villach. The 2011/2012 World Cup season marked first time he scored points on the tour. On December 3, 2011 took 19th place on the hill in Lillehammer. Finally made it twelve times that winter, his the best score it was 12th place (twice) in Lahti on March 4 and March 11 in Oslo. In the overall World Cup was on 35 position, which was the third best record among the Poles. On March 15, 2012 at Letalnica in Planica set his personal record in the length of the stroke – 200.5 meter.

2012/2013

On July 21, 2012 during the Summer Grand Prix competition in Wisla to jump them. Maciej Kot stood on the podium first time in occupations that rank alongside Simon Ammann and Wolfgang Loitzl. On September 30, 2012 in Hinzenbach again was the winner of the competition Summer Grand Prix, ahead of the second Severin Freund and third Taku Takeuchi. In the 2012 season the Summer Grand Prix finally came in fifth place. On January 1, 2013 in New Year competition 61st Four Hills Tournament in Garmisch-Partenkirchen was 5th. In two consecutive contests also take up space in the top ten. Finally, in the overall tournament he was, thanks to a weak performance in the competition in Oberstdorf, on the 20th position.

In individual competitions at FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 took 11th place on the normal hill and 27th on the large hill. On March 2, 2013 he won there a bronze medal in team competition with teammates: Kamil Stoch, Dawid Kubacki, Piotr Żyła.[1] The primary outcome of the competition his team took fourth place, but after re-counting the scores because of Thomas Morgenstern, who noticed a mistake in the points and at the request of the Germans, they finished in third place (Norway was in front of the Polish, but Bardal's jump was badly counted).[2]

Season 2012/2013 was the best in his career. He was in top 10 seven times. The season ended on the 18th place in the overall World Cup. At the end of the season he won the title of team and individual Polish champion in ski jumping in Wisła, Poland.

Olympic Games

Maciej Kot competed for Poland at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. He placed 7th on normal hill and 12th on large hill.

Individual

2014 Russia Sochi/Krasnaya Polyana – 7th place (K-95), 12th place (K-125)

Team

2014 Russia Sochi/Krasnaya Polyana – 4th place

Maciej Kot's starts at Olympic Games

Place Day Year Locality Hill Point K HS Competition Jump 1 Jump 2 Note (points) Lost (points) Winner
7. February 9 2014 Russia Krasnaya Polyana RusSki Gorki K-95 HS-106 individual 101.5 m 98.5 m 255.8 22.2 Kamil Stoch
12. February 15 2014 Russia Krasnaya Polyana RusSki Gorki K-125 HS-140 individual 126.0 m 123.5 m 250.4 28.3 Kamil Stoch
4. February 17 2014 Russia Krasnaya Polyana RusSki Gorki K-125 HS-140 team 131.5 m 129.0 m 1011.8 (251.8) 29.3 Germany

World Championships

Individual

2009 Czech Republic Liberec – 45th place (K-90)
2013 Italy Val di Fiemme/Predazzo – 11th place (K-95), 27th place (K-120)

Team

2013 Italy Val di Fiemme/Predazzo – bronze medal (K-120)

Maciej Kot's starts at World Championships

Place Day Year Locality Hill Point K HS Competition Jump 1 Jump 2 Note (points) Lost (points) Winner
45. February 21 2009 Czech Republic Liberec Ještěd K-90 HS-100 individual 86 m — 103.5 175.5 Wolfgang Loitzl
11. February 23 2013 Italy Predazzo Trampolino Dal Ben K-95 HS-106 individual 101.5 m 97 m 234.7 17.9 Anders Bardal
27. February 28 2013 Italy Predazzo Trampolino Dal Ben K-120 HS-134 individual 125.0 m 122.5 m 258.7 37.1 Kamil Stoch
3. March 2 2013 Italy Predazzo Trampolino Dal Ben K-120 HS-134 team 123.0 128.5 1121.0 (272.3) 14.9 Austria

World Cup

Season standings

Season Overall Ski-Flying Four Hills
Tournament
2007–08 – – 54
2008–09 – – 58
2009–10 – – –
2010–11 – – –
2011–12 35 32 34
2012–13 18 16 20
2013–14 17 15 12
2014–15 65 – –
2015–16 31 32 32

Individual starts

Season 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Points
2007/08 0
q q q 35 52 q 43 38 q 41 q – – – q 41 – – 44 31 36 50 48 q q – –
2008/09 0
– – – – – – – – – – 35 – – – 47 – – – – – – – – – – – –
2009/10 0
– – – – – – – – – – – – q 35 q q – – – – – – –
2010/11 0
– – – – – – – – – – – – – 40 45 46 q – – – – q q – q –
2011/12 108
q 19 q 45 q 46 29 40 37 30 28 34 27 25 18 38 28 26 47 28 q 12 40 12 17 –
2012/13 460
25 48 32 28 22 17 13 50 5 9 10 13 5 10 14 16 14 16 16 13 – 6 17 24 11 8 18
2013/14 398
6 21 5 27 13 10 21 19 28 20 27 23 19 10 23 10 – – 20 16 10 q q 15 25 20 8 15
2014/15 17
29 q 41 – – 26 35 – – – – – – – 45 30 29 24 – 46 – – – – – – – – – – –
2015/16 165
46 18 34 15 18 q 30 32 36 35 28 26 12 12 13 41 30 30 39 – – – q 32 19 25 31 17 15

References

  1. ↑ Brązowy medal drużyny skoczków na Mistrzostwach Świata w Val di Fiemme! - sportowysalon.pl - 02-03-2013
  2. ↑ Thomas Morgenstern pomógł Kamilowi Stochowi i kolegom - przegladsportowy.pl - 02-03-2013

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