Kornelia Kubińska

Kornelia Marek ( born August 3, 1985 in Marklowice, powiat Wodzisław Slaski ) is a Polish cross-country skier.

Marek joined at the age of 16 years beginning in 2002 for the first time in international competitions on niederklassiger level at. A year later, she participated in the Junior World Championships in Sweden Sollefteå, where she was placed, however, clearly defeated in the back half of the standings. By 2005, the Polish improved in FIS races and regularly reached the top ten. In March 2005, Marek was next to her teammate Sylwia Jaskowiec the only athlete of the country, which took at the Junior World Cup. When she was 16, there classified for the first time at a major international event in the top 20. Together with Jaskowiec and Justyna Kowalczyk they could finally win relay bronze at the Universiade in Turin in January 2007.

While Marek times as a junior Kowalczyk was usually the only Pole who in the World Cup - launched - the most important competition series in cross-country skiing. It was not until the year 2007 underscored with Marek and Sylwia Jaskowiec two other athletes on the Polish national team. Both had recommended, with good performances in second rate race and received from the 2007/ 08 season regularly inserts in the World Cup. The Nodziskawerin debuted in Dusseldorf, where she first took the 58th place in the individual sprint and then - together with Jaskowiec - was in the team sprint 22. In February 2008, she won first World Cup points, as they rank 25th finished the victory of the Norwegian Astrid Jacobsen in a freestyle single race than 7.6 kilometers. At the end of the season she was placed at the 91st position in the overall World Cup.

In winter 2008/ 09 Kornelia Marek reached with the relay in ninth for the first time a top-ten World Cup result. Subsequently, she was also nominated for the first time a world championship in the adult area, which took place in Liberec in February 2009. Best individual result was a 21st place at the final race over 30 kilometers in the free technique. A few days before that she had occupied as the second runner of the Polish season in sixth place. The first leg Justyna Kowalczyk had changed in the lead on it; However, Marek lost the connection to the top group and handed themselves in fifth to Sylwia Jaskowiec with more than a minute behind. At the start of the Olympic season 2009/10 Marek missed initially more results amongst the best 30 first World Cup points this winter she won in mid-January 2010 at the Classic race over ten kilometers Otepaeae; the 23 rank was also her until then best individual result in the World Cup. At the Olympic cross-country competitions Marek initially showed especially in the team race excellence. In the team sprint, it reached ninth in collaboration with Sylwia Jaskowiec; in the season they lost as a starting runner little time, so that Poland could ultimately occupy the sixth place as the World Cup. Finally, the Polish woman also completed the last individual race over 30 kilometers in classical technique successfully. For more than half of the race she held with in the comprehensive ten athletes leading group and reached at the end of the eleventh place, while her teammate Kowalczyk triumphed. This ensured binned in the World Cup in the rear box Marek better placement than several runners who were among the top ten in the overall standings.

In early March 2010 - about two weeks after the end of the Winter Olympics - it was announced that Marek had been getest positive by the relay competition on the blood doping agent EPO. A B sample in the following week confirmed this result, after Marek was provisionally suspended. Polish sports authorities announced solve the case and to punish any backers by exclusion from the sports community. Some time after the announcement of the positive B sample said the Pole, they did not know how the doping agents had come into her body. They also announced a comeback for the period after the barrier, since the sport " all her life " .. The meeting which was part of the 47th FIS Congress in Antalya doping committee of the International Ski Federation confirmed on June 3, 2010, the provisional suspension for Marek and put a lock time of two years, expiring on March 16, 2012 fixed.