Jakov Fak
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| Full name | Jakov Fak | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1 August 1987 Rijeka, SFR Yugoslavia |
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| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Biathlon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | SD Pokljuka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Cup debut | 8 December 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Olympic Games | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Teams | 2 (2010, 2014) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medals | 1 (0 gold) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Teams | 6 (2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2015) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medals | 5 (2 gold) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Seasons | 9 (2006/07–) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Individual victories | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| All victories | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Individual podiums | 21 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| All podiums | 22 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jakov Fak (born 1 August 1987) is a Croatian-born Slovenian biathlete. As a member of the Croatian biathlon team, Fak won a bronze medal at the World Championships in 2009 and another bronze at the 2010 Winter Olympics where he had the honor of carrying his nation's' Croatian flag in the opening ceremony. In 2010, Fak announced he would move to the Slovenian biathlon team and has represented Slovenia since the beginning of the 2010/2011 season. At the 2012 World Championships, Fak won a gold medal at 20 km event and a silver medal at the mixed relay, together with Andreja Mali, Teja Gregorin and Klemen Bauer.
Fak began to compete in biathlon in 2001 under the trainer Robert Petrović. His first international biathlon tournament was the Junior World Championships in Ridnaun in 2002 where his best result was 64th place in the Sprint event. Fak improved his performance in 2008, eventually finishing in the top 10 at that year's Junior World Championships.
Since 2006, Fak has participated in the Biathlon World Cup. In his first race in the World Cup in Hochfilzen Fak finished 107th. For a long time his best performance was 47th place which he reached in an Individual race in 2007 in Pokljuka. In 2007 he participated in his first Biathlon World Championships, finishing 78th in the Sprint race and 93rd in the Individual.
The big breakthrough in Fak's career came in the 2008/09 season. In the opening race of the season Fak came in 47th but in the Individual he earned his first World cup points with a 38th position finish. In the third stage of the World cup in Hochfilzen Fak achieved a 16th-place finish.
Despite several respectable performances in the World Cup, Fak's performance at the Biathlon World Championships 2009 came as a huge surprise. In the opening sprint race Fak improved his career best performance by two more places by finishing 14th. He couldn't improve on that performance in the pursuit falling back to 25th place. The big surprise came in the 20 kilometres individual race where Fak won the bronze medal. A perfect score in the final range would have brought Fak a gold medal, however after one miss Fak had to battle very hard for at least some medal and in the end beat Simon Fourcade by less than a second to win the bronze. Thus Jakov Fak won Croatia their first-ever World Championship medal in biathlon.
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