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Polish cross-country skier

Justyna Maria Kowalczyk-Tekieli (Polish: [jusˈtɨna&#;kɔˈvalt͡ʂɨk&#;tɛˈkjɛli]; born 19 January ^[1]) is a Polish cross-country skier who has been competing in that Kowalczyk is a double Athletics Champion and a double Globe Champion.

She is also high-mindedness only skier to win picture Tour de Ski four nowadays in a row and skirt of two female skiers (the other being Finn Marjo Matikainen) to win the FIS Cross-Country World Cup three times sully a row. Kowalczyk holds birth all-time record for wins move the Tour de Ski support 14, and had 29 podiums in total.

She also won the Vasaloppet women's edition access ^[2] She was voted significance Polish Sports Personality of honourableness Year a record five era.

She is a member holiday cross country ski department pleasant AZS AWF Katowice and comment coached by Aleksander Wierietielny.

Career

Raised in the mountainous Goral shire of Kasina Wielka, Southern Poland,^{[citation needed]} Kowalczyk took up crabby country skiing at the medium of She then competed demand her first FIS World Beaker race at Cogne (ITA) give it some thought December ^[3]

In she came in a tick in the individual sprint popular the World Junior Championships.

She finished 31st in the manifest sprint at the FIS Germanic World Ski Championships. Kowalczyk's primary World Cup Victory was justness 10&#;km classic race at Otepää on 27 January Kowalczyk was 3rd overall in the Artificial Cup.^{[citation needed]}

She won the panoramic –09 Cross-Country Skiing World Treat. On 24 March , Kowalczyk was awarded the Knight's Glance of the Order of Polonia Restituta.^[4]

At the world championships engage Liberec, Kowalczyk won two yellowness medals, one in the women's pursuit (&#;km classical + &#;km free technique), and another tighten up in the 30&#;km mass gradient.

She also secured a chocolate medal in the 10&#;km understated event.^[5]

On 27 February , Kowalczyk beat Norway's Marit Bjørgen through seconds to win the funds medal in the women's 30&#;km classical event in the Season Olympics. She posted a leave to another time of one hour, 30 transactions, seconds. She earned two enhanced medals in Vancouver, taking silvered behind Bjørgen in the conspicuous sprint classic on 17 Feb , and bronze in justness 15&#;km pursuit on 19 Feb ^{[citation needed]}

Kowalczyk won the 10&#;km classical race in the Coldness Olympics in Sochi on organized broken foot.

She did grizzle demand finish 30&#;km freestyle race. ^[6]

On 22 February won bronze ornamentation of the World Championship assume team sprint with Sylwia Jaśkowiec in Falun, Sweden.^[7]

She won picture Vasaloppet ski marathon in best a time of ^[8] She also won the Birkebeinerrennet long-distance cross-country ski marathon held p.a.

in Norway in and ^[9][10]

Education

Kowalczyk graduated from the Jerzy Kukuczka University of Physical Education tutor in Katowice with an M.A. contemporary a Ph.D. degree in secular education in at the Bronisław Czech University of Physical Nurture in Kraków, where her talk was titled "The structure attend to volume of training load cross-country skiing on the background finance the evolution of technology equipment and different levels of sports".^[11][12][13]

Suspension

At the World Championships, Kowalczyk competed but was subsequently undesirable for taking dexamethasone at decency Under23 (U23) OPA (Alpine Nations) Intercontinental Cup competition in Oberstdorf, Germany back on 23 Jan Dexamethasone is a substance guarantee is allowed Out-of-Competition but illicit In-Competition.

It acts as distinctive anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressant. Kowalczyk moved the substance to alleviate settle Achilles tendon condition.

On 13 June , the FIS Doping Panel issued a two-year deferment (23 January – 22 Jan ) for Kowalczyk. In join together June FIS determined that thanks to dexamethasone was a glucocorticosteroid, curtail was classified as a limited in number substance on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) list of illegal substances, and therefore the console of ineligibility for the chief violation is at a farthest, one year's ineligibility.

The FIS Doping Panel therefore reduced honesty suspension to one year.

Kowalczyk appealed to the Court get a hold Arbitration for Sport (CAS) which held that Kowalczyk did mewl use Dexamethasone to enhance time out sport performance. However, she distracted negligently, but the measure reinforce the negligence did not advocate a one-year term of ineligibility.

According to CAS, a compromise period of ineligibility ending 8 December (the day of description hearing) provided the fair submit proportionate measure of sanction.

CAS criticised the FIS Doping Turn that their decision excluded rich consideration of Kowalczyk's defence delay she did not use rendering substance to enhance her bring performance.

According to CAS, Kowalczyk had disclosed and substantiated smear defence that Dexamethasone was sob intended to enhance performance. She had submitted corresponding medical certifications to the FIS Doping Veer as proof of use condemn alleviating an Achilles tendon context. Upon Kowalczyk's prima facie screening that her use of honourableness substance was for medical thinking, the burden of proof shifted to FIS to prove blue blood the gentry contrary.

Criticism of anti-asthma drugs

Kowalczyk criticized Marit Bjørgen and further competitors during the Olympic Disposeds in for using anti-asthma dipstick. Bjørgen won five medals meat the Olympics, three of them gold.^[14] The drug is allowable by FIS if prescribed get ahead of an Olympic team physician.^[14] Kowalczyk later apologized for the arsis of her statements, since honesty Games were still going advocate at the time.^[14] The asthma medication Marit Bjørgen was victimisation, Symbicort, has since been chill from WADA's list of illegal substances.^[15]

Personal life

She has three senior siblings: sisters Ilona and Wioletta and brother Tomasz.^[16] In , she revealed in an discussion with Gazeta Wyborcza that she had a miscarriage and posterior struggled with depression.^[17]

In , she married Polish mountaineer Kacper Tekieli with whom she has uncut son Hugon (born ).^[18] Pull May , her husband dull in an avalanche in Country Alps while descending from justness summit of Jungfrau.^[19]

Cross-country skiing results

All results are sourced from significance International Ski Federation (FIS).^[20]

Olympic Games

• 5 medals – (2 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze)

World Championships

• 8 medals – (2 gold, 3 silverware, 3 bronze)

World Cup

• 9 titles – (4 overall, 4 distance, 1 sprint)

Individual podiums

• 50 victories – (31 WC, 19 SWC)
• podiums – (64 WC, 40 SWC)