Paulína Fialková
Paulína Fialková (born 25 October 1992) is a Slovak biathlete. She competed at the Biathlon World Championships 2012 and 2013, and at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi,[1] and 2018 Winter Olympics. At the 2018 Winter Olympics she finished at the fifth place in the 15 km individual event.[2]
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Born | Brezno, Czechoslovakia (present day Slovakia) | 25 October 1992||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Biathlon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Dukla Banská Bystrica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World Cup debut | 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Olympic Games | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Teams | 2 (2014, 2018) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medals | 0 (0 gold) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World Championships | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Teams | 7 (2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medals | 0 (0 gold) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World Cup | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Seasons | 7 (2013/14–) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Individual podiums | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Her younger sister Ivona Fialková also competes for Slovakia in biathlon.
In summer of 2018 she became the world champion in sprint in summer biathlon on world championship in Nove Mesto na Morave.[3]
In 2018 she successfully graduated at Faculty of Law of Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia and she gain Magister degree.[4][5][6] Her bachelor thesis was on theme The possession of firearms and ammunition for sporting purposes. She wrote it in 2015.[7] Her diploma thesis was about International Law and Control Mechanisms of Doping in Sport.[8]
She is the winner of prestigious Slovak award Slovenka roka 2019 (Slovak woman of the year 2019) in category sport.[9]
Biathlon results
All results are sourced from the International Biathlon Union.[10]
Olympic Games
0 medals
Event | Individual | Sprint | Pursuit | Mass start | Relay | Mixed relay |
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2014 Sochi | – | 72nd | – | – | 14th | – |
2018 Pyeongchang | 5th | 11th | 38th | 21st | 5th | 20th |
2022 Beijing |
- *The mixed relay was added as an event in 2014.
World Championships
0 medals
Event | Individual | Sprint | Pursuit | Mass start | Relay | Mixed relay | Single mixed relay |
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2012 Ruhpolding | — | 86th | — | — | 8th | — | N/A |
2013 Nové Město | — | 55th | 53rd | — | 8th | — | |
2015 Kontiolahti | 53rd | 89th | — | — | 19th | 17th | |
2016 Oslo | 76th | 49th | 23rd | — | 14th | 17th | |
2017 Hochfilzen | 27th | 31st | 12th | 10th | 8th | 12th | |
2019 Östersund | 5th | 48th | — | 12th | 6th | 12th | — |
2020 Antholz-Anterselva | 24th | 16th | 17th | 15th | 17th | — | — |
- *During Olympic seasons competitions are only held for those events not included in the Olympic program.
- **The single mixed relay was added as an event in 2019.
World Cup
Season | Age | Overall | Sprint | Pursuit | Individual | Mass start | ||||||||||
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Races | Points | Position | Races | Points | Position | Races | Points | Position | Races | Points | Position | Races | Points | Position | ||
2013/14 | 21 | 9/22 | 48 | 61st | 6/9 | 48 | 52nd | 2/8 | – | – | 1/2 | – | – | 0/3 | – | — |
2014/15 | 22 | 13/25 | 22 | 74th | 8/10 | 13 | 72nd | 2/7 | 7 | 73rd | 3/3 | 2 | 68th | 0/5 | – | — |
2015/16 | 23 | 16/25 | 201 | 35th | 6/9 | 31 | 61st | 5/8 | 93 | 28th | 3/3 | 36 | 26th | 2/5 | 41 | 32nd |
2016/17 | 24 | 18/26 | 292 | 31st | 8/9 | 79 | 39th | 6/9 | 141 | 25th | 2/3 | 14 | 53rd | 2/5 | 58 | 28th |
2017/18 | 25 | 16/22 | 247 | 32nd | 7/8 | 72 | 39th | 5/7 | 49 | 44th | 2/2 | 44 | 15th | 2/5 | 82 | 21st |
2018/19 | 26 | 23/25 | 687 | 6th | 8/9 | 228 | 7th | 7/8 | 154 | 17th | 3/3 | 111 | 2nd | 5/5 | 194 | 3rd |
2019/20 | 27 | 19/21 | 489 | 13th | 8/8 | 191 | 10th | 4/5 | 149 | 6th | 2/3 | 17 | 45th | 5/5 | 132 | 11th |
Overall record
Result | Individual | Sprint | Pursuit | Mass start | Relay | Mixed relay |
Total | ||
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Individual events | Team events | All events | |||||||
1st place | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
2nd place | – | – | 1 | 2 | – | – | 3 | – | 3 |
3rd place | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – | 3 | – | 3 |
Podiums | – | 1 | 2 | 2 | – | – | 6 | – | 6 |
Top 10 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 16 | 13 | 29 |
Points | 7 | 18 | 17 | 8 | 23 | 11 | 50 | 34 | 84 |
Others | 6 | 28 | 7 | – | – | – | 41 | – | 41 |
DNF | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 |
DSQ | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Starts | 13 | 46 | 25 | 8 | 23 | 11 | 92 | 34 | 126 |
- * Results in IBU World Cup races, Olympics and World Championships.
Individual podiums
Season | Place | Competition | Placement |
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2017–18 | Tyumen | Mass start | 2nd |
2018–19 | Pokljuka | Pursuit | 3rd |
Hochfilzen | Pursuit | 2nd | |
Nové Město na Moravě | Sprint | 3rd | |
Nové Město na Moravě | Mass start | 2nd | |
Ruhpolding | Mass start | 3rd | |
Oslo | Sprint | 3rd | |
2019–20 | Ruhpolding | Pursuit | 2nd |
References
- "Paulina Fialkova". sochi2014. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
- "Dve Slovenky siahali na medailu, jedna ju získala. Ako vyzerali vytrvalostné preteky" (in Slovak). sport.sme.sk. 15 February 2018. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
- a.s, Petit Press. "Paulína Fialková sa stala majsterkou sveta v letnom biatlone". sport.sme.sk (in Slovak). Retrieved 6 May 2019.
- "Úspešná biatlonistka Paulína Fialková je študentkou Právnickej Fakulty UMB | Marec 2016 | Univerzita Mateja Bela v Banskej Bystrici". www.umb.sk. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
- "Právnická fakulta Univerzity Mateja Bela – oficiálna stránka". facebook.com. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
- "Paulína Fialková". facebook.com. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
- "CRZP – detail kniha". opac.crzp.sk. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
- "CRZP – detail kniha". opac.crzp.sk. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
- Diva.sk. "Slovenka roka 2019: Ktorá žena sa stala tou absolútnou víťazkou?". Diva.sk. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
- International Biathlon Union. Paulína Fialková. IBU Datacenter. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Paulina Fialková. |
- Paulína Fialková at BiathlonWorld.com and BiathlonResults.com from IBU