Krystyna Guzik ( Pałka; born 16 August 1983) is a Polish

biathlete The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into shooting rounds. The shooting rounds are not ti ...

. She was born in

Zakopane Zakopane (Gorals#Language, Podhale Goral: ''Zokopane'') is a town in the south of Poland, in the southern part of the Podhale region at the foot of the Tatra Mountains. From 1975 to 1998, it was part of Nowy Sącz Voivodeship; since 1999, it has ...

. She represented Poland at the

2006 Winter Olympics The 2006 Winter Olympics (), officially the XX Olympic Winter Games () and also known as Torino 2006, were a winter multi-sport event held from 10 to 26 February in Turin, Italy. This marked the second time Italy had hosted the Winter O ...

2010 Winter Olympics The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games () and also known as Vancouver 2010 (), were an international winter multi-sport event held from February 12 to 28, 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with ...

http://www.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=14546/index.html NBC Olympics and

2014 Winter Olympics The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially called the XXII Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Sochi 2014 (), were an international winter multi-sport event that was held from 7 to 23 February 2014 in Sochi, Russia. Opening ro ...

. Her best result at the Olympics was a tenth place in the 15 km individual event at the 2014 Games in

Sochi Sochi ( rus, Сочи, p=ˈsotɕɪ, a=Ru-Сочи.ogg, from – ''seaside'') is the largest Resort town, resort city in Russia. The city is situated on the Sochi (river), Sochi River, along the Black Sea in the North Caucasus of Souther ...

. At the 2013 World Championships she won the silver medal in pursuit. In July 2014, Guzik married fellow biathlete Grzegorz Guzik.

World Cup Podiums

Record

Olympic Games

''0 medals''

World Championships

''1 medal (1 silver)''

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Vancouver 2010

IBU Profile
1983 births Living people Sportspeople from Zakopane Biathletes from Lesser Poland Voivodeship Polish female biathletes Olympic biathletes for Poland Biathletes at the 2006 Winter Olympics Biathletes at the 2010 Winter Olympics Biathletes at the 2014 Winter Olympics Biathletes at the 2018 Winter Olympics Biathlon World Championships medalists 21st-century Polish sportswomen {{Poland-biathlon-bio-stub