Bio

Paulína Fialková (born 25 October 1992) is a Slovak biathlete. She competed at the Biathlon World Championships 2012 and 2013, and at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, and 2018 Winter Olympics. At the 2018 Winter Olympics she finished at the fifth place in the 15 km individual event. Her younger sister Ivona Fialková also competes for Slovakia in biathlon. In summer of 2018 she became the world champion in sprint in summer biathlon on world championship in Nove Mesto na Morave. In 2018 she successfully graduated at Faculty of Law of Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia and she gain Magister degree. Her bachelor thesis was on theme The possession of firearms and ammunition for sporting purposes. She wrote it in 2015. Her diploma thesis was about International Law and Control Mechanisms of Doping in Sport. She is the winner of prestigious Slovak award Slovenka roka 2019 (Slovak woman of the year 2019) in category sport.