Peter Prevc

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Peter Prevc
20150927 FIS Summer Grand Prix Hinzenbach 4698 (cropped).jpg
Prevc in Hinzenbach, 2015
Country  Slovenia
Born (1992-09-20) 20 September 1992 (age 31)
Kranj, Slovenia
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Ski club SK Triglav Kranj
Personal best 250 m (820 ft) National record
Vikersund, 14 Feb 2015
World Cup career
Seasons 2010–present
Individual wins 13
Team wins 8
Indiv. podiums 38
Team podiums 14
Yellow bibs 16
Indiv. starts 150
Team starts 29
Four Hills titles 1 (2016)
Ski Flying titles 2 (2014, 2015)
Medal record
Men's ski jumping
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2014 Sochi Individual NH
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Sochi Individual LH
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
Silver medal – second place 2013 Val di Flemme Individual LH
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Oslo Team LH
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Val di Flemme Individual NH
Men's ski flying
FIS Ski Flying World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Harrachov Individual
Updated on 10 Jan 2016.

Peter Prevc (Slovene: [pèːtɛ́ːr prèːút͡s]; born 20 September 1992) is a Slovenian ski jumper. His career achievements include winning a silver and bronze medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics; silver and bronze at the 2013 World Championships; bronze at the 2014 Ski Flying World Championships; and bronze with the Slovenian national team at the 2011 World Championships. At World Cup level, Prevc finished second in both the 2014 and 2015 seasons, and currently leads the 2016 standings. In 2016, Prevc also won the Four Hills Tournament.

In 2013, 2014 and 2015, Prevc was named Slovenian athlete of the year.[1][2][3] He is the first ski jumper to have landed a jump of 250 meters, a world record which he set in Vikersund on 14 February 2015; however, the record was surpassed by Anders Fannemel the following day. On 20 March 2015 in Planica, Prevc became one of the few ski jumpers in history to achieve a "perfect jump", with all five judges giving him the maximum style marks of 20.[4]

Career

Early career

Together with his friends, Prevc started ski jumping when he was nine years old. He took his first jumps with regular skis at K-25 hill, known as "Bregarca", still standing near his home in Dolenja Vas. When he was ten, his father signed him up to "SK Triglav Kranj" ski jumping club.[5]

World Cup debut

In 2009 Prevc made a debut in world cup on 5 December 2009 in Lillehammer, Norway where he finished 22nd. In overall he finished at 35th place. He also debuted at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver he finished 7th in the individual normal hill, 8th in the team large hill, and 16th in the individual large hill events.

2011 season

In 2011 Prevc made a debut at FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo where he took a bronze medal at the Team Large Hill event.[6] He made his sky flying debut in Planica 2011 where reached his first world cup podium. He took 3rd place in Ski-Flying Team event for Slovenia. He finished 24th in overall. That year, he was a member of Slovenian Sports Team of the Year, voted by Association of Slovene sports journalists, together with his teammates Robert Kranjec, Jernej Damjan, and Jurij Tepeš.

2012 and 2013 seasons

In 2012 he took first ever World Cup team victory for Slovenia at Ski-Flying Team event in Oberstdorf. On this team event he jumped 225.5 meters (which would equal the Harri Olli's hill record) but he landed hard and fell and injured his shoulder. He finished the season and missed out SFWC in Vikersund.

In 2013 he won three World Cup team events in Zakopane, Willingen and Planica. His set his personal best jump at 230 meters in Vikersund. At FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in Val di Fiemme he took silver medal at individual large hill event[7] and bronze medal at individual normal hill event.[8] Prevc reached his first World Cup podium in Planica, a second place at the flying hill.

2014 season

In 2014 Prevc recorded his first individual World Cup win in Kulm. With a second place at the same venue, Prevc won the season's ski flying title - since there were only two scheduled ski flying events in the season. He went on to win in Sapporo, which brought him on the top of the World Cup standings,[9] where he remained for the next couple of events. At the end, he finished 2nd in the overall standings, after Kamil Stoch of Poland. Prevc also won the last event of the season, in Planica, accumulating 3 wins and 11 podiums altogether in his most successful season to the date. At the 2014 Winter Olympics, Prevc won silver at the normal hill and bronze at large hill. At the 2014 Ski-Flying World Championships, Prevc won bronze after the last two jumps were cancelled due to bad weather.

2015 season

The 2014/15 season was very successful for Prevc. He won 3 events and added 11 more podiums in the World Cup. He was at the top of the standings for a while and at the end of the season, he shared the same number of points in the first place with Severin Freund of Germany. However, the overall title went to Freund because of higher number of victories during the season (9 for Freund and 3 for Prevc).[10] Prevc defended the Ski Flying title. In addition, he won two team events and one third place with the Slovenian team. On 14 February 2015, Prevc set a ski flying world record in Vikersund with a 250 m (820 ft) jump. This was beaten the following day with a 251.5 metres (825 ft) jump by Anders Fannemel.[11] On 20 March in Planica, Prevc achieved a "perfect jump" with all style referees awarding him maximum 20 points. At the same event, he also set the hill record with 248.5 m.[12] At the World Championships, Prevc finished 4th on the large hill, 13th on the normal hill and 6th with the Slovenian team at the team event. At the Four Hills Tournament, Prevc won two 3rd places which secured him a 3rd place in the overall tournament standing.

2016 season

Prevc started the 2016 season with finishing on the podium in 6 of seven events. The victory in Engelberg on 19 December was special, since he and his younger brother Domen Prevc both finished on the podium as the first pair of brothers in World Cup history.[13] With three wins and one third place, Prevc won the prestigius 2016 Four Hills Tournament with all-time highest score of 1139.4 points and the first Slovenian ski jumper to do so after Primož Peterka in the 1996/97 season.[14]

World Cup

Standings

Season Overall SF 4H NT
2009/10 35 – 41 10
2010/11 24 36 13 N/A
2011/12 15 18 20 N/A
2012/13 7 5 8 N/A
2013/14 2nd 1st 4 N/A
2014/15 2nd 1st 3rd N/A
2015/16 1st 1st N/A

Wins

No. Season Date Location Hill Size
1 2013/14 12 January 2014 Austria Tauplitz/Bad Mitterndorf Kulm HS 200 FH
2 25 January 2014 Japan Sapporo Ōkurayama HS 134 (night) LH
3 23 March 2014 Slovenia Planica Bloudkova velikanka HS 139 LH
4 2014/15 24 January 2015 Japan Sapporo Ōkurayama HS 134 (night) LH
5 14 February 2015 Norway Vikersund Vikersundbakken HS 225 (night) FH
6 20 March 2015 Slovenia Planica Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS 225 FH
7 2015/16 13 December 2015 Russia Nizhny Tagil Tramplin Stork HS 134 (night) LH
8 19 December 2015 Switzerland Engelberg Gross-Titlis-Schanze HS 137 LH
9 20 December 2015 Switzerland Engelberg Gross-Titlis-Schanze HS 137 LH
10 1 January 2016 Germany Garmisch-Partenkirchen Große Olympiaschanze HS 140 LH
11 3 January 2016 Austria Innsbruck Bergiselschanze HS 130 LH
12 6 January 2016 Austria Bischofshofen Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze HS 140 (night) LH
13 10 January 2016 Germany Willingen Mühlenkopfschanze HS 145 LH

Individual starts (150)

Season 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Points
2009/10 Kuusamo Lillehammer Lillehammer Engelberg Engelberg Engelberg Oberstdorf Garmisch-Partenkirchen Innsbruck Bischofshofen Bad Mitterndorf Bad Mitterndorf Sapporo Sapporo Zakopane Zakopane Oberstdorf Klingenthal Willingen Lahti Kuopio Lillehammer Oslo 106
– 22 31 q 26 27 32 28 36 q – – – – 14 26 – – – 17 14 19 14
2010/11 Kuusamo Kuopio Lillehammer Lillehammer Engelberg Engelberg Engelberg Oberstdorf Garmisch-Partenkirchen Innsbruck Bischofshofen Harrachov Harrachov Sapporo Sapporo Zakopane Zakopane Zakopane Willingen Klingenthal Oberstdorf Vikersund Vikersund Lahti Planica Planica 218
12 25 32 31 32 39 17 12 27 11 18 – – – – 23 11 12 18 24 q – – 16 21 17
2011/12 Kuusamo Lillehammer Lillehammer Harrachov Harrachov Engelberg Engelberg Oberstdorf Garmisch-Partenkirchen Innsbruck Bischofshofen Bad Mitterndorf Bad Mitterndorf Zakopane Zakopane Sapporo Sapporo Predazzo Predazzo Willingen Oberstdorf Lahti Trondheim Oslo Planica Planica 400
16 24 23 14 21 42 20 31 19 11 20 21 13 4 6 35 7 13 10 4 8 – – – – –
2012/13 Lillehammer Lillehammer Kuusamo Krasnaja Polana Krasnaja Polana Engelberg Engelberg Oberstdorf Garmisch-Partenkirchen Innsbruck Bischofshofen Wisła Zakopane Sapporo Sapporo Vikersund Vikersund Harrachov Harrachov Klingenthal Oberstdorf Lahti Kuopio Trondheim Oslo Planica Planica 744
10 9 15 13 q 14 6 18 10 5 15 26 11 15 9 26 5 5 20 7 4 18 13 6 15 2 3
2013/14 Klingenthal Kuusamo Lillehammer Lillehammer Titisee-Neustadt Titisee-Neustadt Engelberg Engelberg Oberstdorf Garmisch-Partenkirchen Innsbruck Bischofshofen Tauplitz Tauplitz Wisła Zakopane Sapporo Sapporo Willingen Willingen Falun Lahti Lahti Kuopio Trondheim Oslo Planica Planica 1312
21 12 23 14 27 11 15 8 3 18 6 2 2 1 5 2 1 2 7 3 2 4 6 4 45 11 3 1
2014/15 Klingenthal Kuusamo Kuusamo Lillehammer Lillehammer Nizhny Tagil Nizhny Tagil Engelberg Engelberg Oberstdorf Garmisch-Partenkirchen Innsbruck Bischofshofen Tauplitz Wisła Zakopane Sapporo Sapporo Willingen Willingen Titisee-Neustadt Titisee-Neustadt Vikersund Vikersund Lahti Kuopio Trondheim Oslo Oslo Planica Planica 1729
5 9 4 5 2 5 9 5 12 3 3 11 4 4 2 4 1 3 2 4 3 7 1 16 4 17 2 2 3 1 2
2015/16 Klingenthal Lillehammer Lillehammer Nizhny Tagil Nizhny Tagil Engelberg Engelberg Oberstdorf Garmisch-Partenkirchen Innsbruck Bischofshofen Willingen Zakopane Sapporo Sapporo Oslo Trondheim Vikersund Vikersund Lahti Kuopio Almaty Almaty Wisła Wisła Titisee-Neustadt Titisee-Neustadt Planica Planica 1024
2 11 2 2 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 1

Personal life

Prevc was born in Kranj but has since been living in a small village Dolenja Vas. He comes from a large family and is the oldest of five children: his two younger brothers, Domen and Cene Prevc, are also ski jumpers. Nika, one of his two younger sisters, is also a ski jumper. He attended the first half of elementary school education in Selca and the second half in Železniki. He continued his education at economy gymnasium in Kranj where he got his high school diploma.

Outside of ski jumping Prevc enjoys following football and is a declared supporter of Slovenian football club NK Maribor.[15][16]

References

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  13. ↑ http://www.rtvslo.si/sport/zimski-sporti/zgodovinsko-dvojna-zmaga-bratov-prevc/381532
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External links

Records
Preceded by World's longest ski jump
14 February 2015 – 15 February 2015		 Succeeded by
Anders Fannemel
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