4th March 2013
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Stoch wins gold
The Pole took home the 2013 Nordic World Ski Championship title in ski jumping on the large hill
Polish ski jumper Kamil Stoch won the men’s large-hill gold at the 2013 Nordic World Ski Championships in Val di Fiemme, Italy, last week. The 25-year-old had failed to win an event in this year’s World Cup campaign but he came out of the blocks with guns blazing in the Italian ski resort, with a first round jump of 131.5m, to give him a five-point lead before his second attempt.
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The victory was Mr Stoch’s first-ever world championship medal and should hopefully go some way to allowing him to step out of the shadow of his fellow Pole and former world champion Adam Małysz. Mr Małysz won a total of four world championships in an outstanding ski-jumping career, but since his retirement Mr Stoch has seen his every move compared with the ski-jumping great.
Having now finally stepped away from the imposing shadow of his compatriot, Mr Stoch was understandably ecstatic after his first gold.
“I felt good, but I also knew that ski jumping is such an unpredictable sport that the slightest error can decide whether you win or you drop out of the top 10 completely,” he told reporters.
Speaking to Onet.pl, the Zakopane-born skier said he wasn’t seeking to overtake Poland’s greatest-ever ski jumper; he was just happy to have achieved some success.
“It’s too late for me to achieve what Adam achieved,” he said. “He was an exceptional jumper and is an exceptional man. There will be no such second [Małysz]. I am glad that I was able to get a small part of what he achieved.”
David Ingham
From Warsaw Business Journal
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