Piotr Żyła

Piotr Żyła
Full name	Piotr Żyła
Born	(1987-01-16) 16 January 1987 Cieszyn, Poland
Ski club	KS Wisla Ustronianka
Personal best	232.5 m (763 ft) Vikersund, 26 Feb 2012
World Cup career
Seasons	2004–
Individual wins	1
Team wins	1
Indiv. podiums	2
Team podiums	1
Indiv. starts	164
Medal record Representing  Poland Men's ski jumping World Championships 2013 Val di Fiemme Team LH 2015 Falun Team LH World Junior Championship 2005 Rovaniemi Team
Updated on 4 December 2016.

Piotr Żyła (Polish pronunciation: [ˈpjɔtr ˈʐɨwa]; born 16 January 1987) is a Polish ski jumper. He is a member of the national team and competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. He is a two-time World Championship bronze medalist in the team large hill event (2013, 2015).

Żyła held the Polish record (together with Kamil Stoch) for ski flight length (232.5 m) from January 26, 2013 to March 21, 2015, when Kamil Stoch attained 238 m at Letalnica bratov Gorišek.

Personal life

Piotr Żyła was born in Cieszyn, Poland. He graduated Sports Championships School in Zakopane, where his friend from class was Kamil Stoch. In 2006 he married Justyna Lazar, who is Adam Małysz's cousin. Piotr and Justyna have two children: son Jakub (born 2007) and daughter Karolina (born 2012).

Career

Piotr Żyła's the longest jump in career (new record of Poland) in Vikersund.

Team competition in Val di Fiemme 2013

Medal ceremony after winning bronze medal in Val di Fiemme with polish team: Maciej Kot, Kamil Stoch and Dawid Kubacki.

2006/2007

Żyła jumped on skis for the first time when he was eight years old. On December 26, 2006 he debuted in the Continental Cup at St. Moritz. The first points in this series were won on January 14, 2005 in Sapporo, when he was 19th. At the World Junior Championships he was 14th, while the team won the silver medal. On January 21 in Sapporo, he got a chance to debut in the World Cup. In his first start, he scored points (19th place). A day later, again, the last time in the season, he was in the top 30. On February 4 he won the Continental Cup in Villach. In the 2006/2007 season he scored points in the World Cup four times. The highest place was the 19th in Titisee-Neustadt. He started well in the world championships. In the individual competition, he was 35th and 42nd. In the team competition, the Polish team was 5th.

2007/2008

In the season 2007/2008 he scored points just in Zakopane, Poland. He was 29th twice.

2010/2011

Training with coach Jan Szturc at the club meant that he attained better results in the Continental Cup. On January 21 in Zakopane was 21st and he repeated this result on February 13 at the ski flying hill in Vikersund. On January 29, 2011 he stood on the podium in the team competition in Willingen. He also starred in the World Championships. He finished at 19th and 21st place individually, and fourth and fifth in team.

2011/2012

In the season 2011/2012 Żyła returned to the team A. In the general classification beginning the summer season competitions Lotus Poland Tour finished on last – 57th place. In the event of the Summer Grand Prix 2011 in Hakuba finished on second place twice. On September 17 at Wielka Krokiew has won the bronze medal in Polish Championship, after jumping a distance of 126.5 m and 118.5 m. After taking 4th place in the Summer Grand Prix in Klingenthal he had the fifth position in the general classification of the Summer Grand Prix 2011.

2012/2013

On December 4, 2011 for the first time he was ranked in the top 10. He was 7th in Lillehammer. He started in the World Cup Ski Flying in Vikersund. Individually he was 33rd, Polish team took 7th place. On January 26, 2013 he became the Polish record holder (together with Kamil Stoch) in the length of the ski flight (232.5 m). In the season 2012/2013 the first World Cup points scored until the seventh start, taking 30th place in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. On January 9, 2013 in Wisla took 6th place. He repeated this result in Vikersund on January 26 and February 13 in Klingenthal. In individual competitions at FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 took 23 place on the normal hill and 19th on the large hill. On March 2, 2013 he won there a bronze medal in team competition with teammates: Kamil Stoch, Maciej Kot, Dawid Kubacki.^[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 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] On March 17, 2013 annually ex aequo with Gregor Schlierenzauer won the World Cup in Oslo. It was his first podium of his career. He was the fifth in the history of Polish ski jumper after Stanisław Bobak, Piotr Fijas, Adam Małysz and Kamil Stoch, who won the World Cup competition. A week later, the penultimate competition of the season ranked third in the ski flying hill in Planica.

2014/2015

He took part in the World Championships 2015 in Falun, Sweden. He was 33rd on normal hill (K-90) and 9th in the competition on the large hill Lugnet (K-120). On February 28, 2015 Polish team in squad: Żyła, Kamil Stoch, Klemens Murańka and Jan Ziobro achieved bronze medal of World Championships 2015 in team.^[3] For Żyła is the second bronze od World Championships in team.

2016/2017

On December 3, 2016 Polish national team including Żyła, Stoch, Kubacki and Kot won first competition in team for Poland in history.^[4]

Olympic Games

Piotr Żyła started at Olympic Games once – in Sochi 2014. He has not started in competition on normal hill. He was 34th on large hill.

Individual

2014 Sochi/Krasnaya Polyana

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34th place (K-125)

Team

2014 Sochi/Krasnaya Polyana

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4th place

Piotr Żyła's starts at Olympic Games

Place	Day	Year	Locality	Hill	Point K	HS	Competition	Jump 1	Jump 2	Note (points)	Lost (points)	Winner
34.	February 15	2014	Krasnaya Polyana	RusSki Gorki	K-125	HS-140	individual	118.0 m	-	108.7	170.0	Kamil Stoch
4.	February 17	2014	Krasnaya Polyana	RusSki Gorki	K-125	HS-140	team	121.0 m	132.0 m	1011.8 (233.5)	29.3	Germany

World Championships

Individual

2007 Sapporo	–	35th place (K-120), 42nd place (K-90)
2011 Oslo	–	19th place (K-95), 21st place (K-120)
2013 Val di Fiemme/Predazzo	–	23rd place (K-95), 19th place (K-120)
2015 Falun	–	33rd place (K-90), 9th place (K-120)

Team

2007 Sapporo	–	5th place
2011 Oslo	–	4th place
2013 Val di Fiemme/Predazzo	–	bronze medal (K-120)
2015 Falun	–	bronze medal (K-120)

Piotr Żyła's starts at World Championships

Place	Day	Year	Locality	Hill	Point K	HS	Competition	Jump 1	Jump 2	Note (points)	Loss (points)	Winner
35.	24 February	2007	Sapporo	Ōkurayama	K-120	HS-134	individual	103 m	—	76.9	189.2	Simon Ammann
5.	25 February	2007	Sapporo	Ōkurayama	K-120	HS-134	team	115 m	111.5 m	857.2 (194.7)	143	Austria
42.	3 March	2007	Sapporo	Miyanomori	K-90	HS-98	individual	86.5 m	—	104	173	Adam Małysz
19.	26 February	2011	Oslo	Midtstubakken	K-95	HS-106	individual	93.5 m	96 m	224	45.2	Thomas Morgenstern
4.	27 February	2011	Oslo	Midtstubakken	K-95	HS-106	team	98 m	101 m	953 (235.6)	72.5	Austria
21.	3 March	2011	Oslo	Holmenkollbakken	K-120	HS-134	individual	121 m	124.5 m	232.9	43.6	Gregor Schlierenzauer
5.	5 March	2011	Oslo	Holmenkollbakken	K-120	HS-134	team	127 m	—	435.6 (118)	64.4	Austria
23.	23 February	2013	Predazzo	Trampolino Dal Ben	K-95	HS-106	individual	95.5 m	95 m	220.1	32.5	Anders Bardal
19.	28 February	2013	Predazzo	Trampolino Dal Ben	K-120	HS-134	individual	124.0 m	126.5 m	268.1	27.7	Kamil Stoch
3.	2 March	2013	Predazzo	Trampolino Dal Ben	K-120	HS-134	team	122.0 m	126.0 m	1121.0 (270.6)	14.9	Austria
33.	21 February	2015	Falun	Lugnet	K-90	HS-100	individual	89.5 m	—	101.1	151.6	Rune Velta
9.	26 February	2015	Falun	Lugnet	K-120	HS-134	individual	123.0 m	121.5 m	229.8	38.9	Severin Freund
3.	28 February	2015	Falun	Lugnet	K-120	HS-134	team	123.0	123.0	848.1 (216.2)	44.5	Norway

World Cup

Season standings

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
2005/06																																23
	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	19	20	47	q	–	–	–	–	–	q	–
2006/07																																34
	32	–	q	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	q	–	–	42	19	20	–	27	q	24	33	q	q	–
2007/08																																0
	44	–	–	–	–	47	q	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	q	q	38	45	–	–	–	49	49	q	45	39	–
2008/09																																4
	–	–	–	–	–	44	q	34	41	46	36	–	–	29	29	q	–	38	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
2009/10																																0
	q	q	42	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
2010/11																																37
	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	31	26	21	32	31	31	46	27	31	21	28	26	–
2011/12																																267
	19	11	7	19	25	16	42	36	28	q	43	17	22	16	18	13	30	44	42	26	28	10	44	7	24	21
2012/13																																485
	36	43	48	–	–	36	37	31	30	22	30	6	18	26	22	6	10	22	13	6	–	12	15	9	1	3	5
2013/14																																343
	5	23	26	6	12	15	6	11	24	q	–	21	15	24	12	19	–	–	22	32	37	q	q	24	12	32	20	13
2014/15																																474
	14	17	24	33	15	10	46	24	15	26	17	13	33	8	29	27	16	11	23	14	9	18	12	15	18	10	20	6	8	41	10
2015/16																																89
	39	33	40	19	17	45	42	48	–	–	–	–	40	–	–	–	18	34	12	35	46	16	48	39	18	40	42	q	–
2016/17																																49
	17	11	20

Victories

	Day	Year	Location	Hill	Point K	HS	Jump 1	Jump 2	Note (points)
1.	March 17	2013	Oslo	Holmenkollbakken	K-120	HS-134	135,5 m	133,5 m	270.1

Podiums

	Day	Year	Location	Hill	Point K	HS	Jump 1	Jump 2	Note (points)	Place	Lost (points)	Winner
1.	March 17	2013	Oslo	Holmenkollbakken	K-120	HS-134	135,5 m	133,5 m	270.1	1.	–
2.	March 22	2013	Planica	Letalnica	K-185	HS-215	212,5 m	216,5 m	402.5	2.	9.7	Gregor Schlierenzauer

References

External links

• Piotr Żyła at the International Ski Federation

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