Jakov Fak

Jakov Fak is a Croatian-Slovenian biathlete, born on 1 August 1987, who has competed for Slovenia since 2010. As a member of the Croatian biathlon team he won bronze medals at the 2009 World Championships and at the 2010 Winter Olympics, where he was also the Croatian flag bearer at the opening ceremony. In 2010 he switched his citizenship and began to compete for Slovenia, and with the Slovenian team he won four medals at the World Championships and a silver medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics. He has nine victories in the World Cup. Fak began to compete in biathlon in 2001 under the trainer Robert Petrović, first competed internationally at the Junior World Championships in Ridnaun in 2002 and has taken part in the Biathlon World Cup since 2006. His big breakthrough came in the 2008-09 season.