… she is a real hard worker: Only 25 days rest of skiing after the season was at her schedule before she returned back on skis in Ramsau in May. Long training camps followed in Zkaopane, Otepää and New Zealand before she went back on glacier in September.
...she achieved a Master degree at the Academy of Physical Education in Katowice and has a bother Tomasz and two sisters Wioletta and Ilona besides her parents Janina and Józef.
...she received the award of the athlete of the year 2009 and 2010 in Poland
...Kowalczyk is the first Polish Cross-Country skier that won a Olympic medal and the first who won the overall World Cup ranking
...Otepää is her favourite World Cup venue as it is the place where she captured her first World Cup podium and her first victory
…her real date of birth is 19th of January 1983 although in all official documents it says 23rd of January 1983 – therefore Justyna Kowalczyk could celebrate twice a year her birthday
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