Lukáš Kožienka (born 30 June 1989) is a Slovak

bobsledder Bobsleigh or bobsled is a winter sport in which teams of 2 to 4 athletes make timed speed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh. International bobsleigh competitions are governed by the International Bobsle ...

and

weightlifter Weightlifting or weight lifting generally refers to physical exercises and sports in which people lift weights, often in the form of dumbbells, barbells or machines. People engage in weightlifting for a variety of different reasons. These can ...

Career

Weightlifting

Kožienka was a weightlifter in the European Junior and U23 Weightlifting Championships. He earned 330 points during the 2007 weightlifting tournament in Trenčín on 15 December 2007. During the

2014 World Weightlifting Championships The 2014 World Weightlifting Championships were held in Baluan Sholak Sports Palace, Almaty, Kazakhstan. The event took place from November 8 to 16, 2014. Medal summary Men Women Medal table Ranking by Big (Total result) medals Ranking b ...

, he finished 27th place in the category over 105 kg, but did not score points for Slovakia for Olympic qualification.

Bobsleigh

In 2013, Kožienka was offered to play bobsleigh by Milan Jagnešák. At the

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 ...

, they teamed up with Petr Narovec and Juraj Mokráš in the four-man bobsleigh category, finishing 25th place. At the

2013–14 Bobsleigh World Cup The 2013–14 Bobsleigh World Cup was a multi-race tournament over the winter season for bobsleigh, organised by the FIBT, which also organised in parallel the 2013–14 Skeleton World Cup. The season started on 30 November 2013 in Calgary, Canada ...

, Kožienka finished tenth place in the two-man bobsleigh category with Milan Jagnešák. The following season, this time Michal Tkáč as his partner, they finished 31st place. At the

2017–18 Bobsleigh World Cup The 2017–18 Bobsleigh World Cup was a multi-race series over a season for bobsleigh. The season started on 9 November 2017 in Mt. Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Run, Lake Placid, USA and ended on 21 January 2018 in Königssee bobsleigh, luge, and ...

in Altenberg, Kožienka teamed up with Radek Matoušek, Vladimír Šimík, and Jakub Fendek in the four-man bobsleigh category. They made it to the top ten by finishing tenth place, ranked nine. At the

2018–19 Bobsleigh World Cup The 2018–19 Bobsleigh World Cup was a multi-race series over a season for bobsleigh. The season started on 8 December 2018 in Sigulda, Latvia and finished on 24 February 2019 in Calgary, Canada. The World Cup was organised by the IBSF (formerly ...

, Kožienka teamed up with Pavol Táborský in the two-man bobsleigh category. They finished 23rd and 28th places, respectively in the first and second round.

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