Nika Prevc (born 15 March 2005) is a Slovenian ski jumper.[2] She is one of the most successful women's ski jumpers of all time with two overall FIS Ski Jumping World Cup titles, two individual gold medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, and three gold medals at the FIS Nordic Junior World Ski Championships. Prevc has also won 22 individual World Cup events, the third-most behind only Sara Takanashi and Maren Lundby. In addition, she holds the record for the most points won in a women's World Cup season (1,933), and the joint record for the most consecutive wins (10) and total wins (15) in a single World Cup season.
Prevc is the current women's world record holder with 236 metres (774ft), set in Vikersund on 14 March 2025.
Career
Early career
Prevc made her official ski jumping debut on 5 August 2018, at the age of 13, at the FIS Ski Jumping Alpen Cup competition in Klingenthal. She finished in 29th place out of 55 competitors.[3] Almost exactly a year later, on 4 August 2019, she achieved her first Alpen Cup victory at the same venue.[4]
In the 2020–21 Alpen Cup season, Prevc became the overall winner of the competition with 597 points out of 8 events; she also finished outside the top three only twice.[5] In the same season, she also made her debut in the FIS Ski Jumping Continental Cup, where she finished seventh overall.[6]
World Cup debut, first podium and youth world champion (2021–2023)
Prevc competing in Hinzenbach in February 2023, where she won her first World Cup podium.
Prevc made her debut in the top-tier FIS Ski Jumping World Cup in November 2021, aged 16, in Nizhny Tagil.[7] She finished her inaugural match in 23rd place, which was enough for her first World Cup points.[8]
Prevc won several gold medals at junior level in 2022. She won the individual gold at the 2022 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival, in addition to gold in the mixed team event.[9] Prevc also became the junior world champion at the 2022 Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in Zakopane, where she also won gold in the women's team event and a silver medal in the mixed team event with the Slovenia national team.[10]
In February 2023, she finished on the World Cup podium for the first time after finishing third in Hinzenbach.[11]
World Cup domination and records (2023–present)
The 2023–24 season marked a breakthrough in her career. On 16 December 2023 in Engelberg, Prevc achieved her first individual World Cup victory after finishing above her countrywoman Ema Klinec.[12] She then clinched the overall ranking of the inaugural 'Two Nights Tour' with a victory in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and a fifth-place finish in Oberstdorf,[13] and took the lead in the overall World Cup standings after a victory in Villach in January 2024.[14] Prevc finished the season in first place with 1,454 points, winning 7 out of 24 events. She became the fourth Slovenian ski jumper to win the overall World Cup title after Primož Peterka, her brother Peter Prevc, and Nika Križnar.[15]
In the 2024–25 season, Prevc again won the overall ranking of the Two Nights Tour with World Cup victories in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Oberstdorf.[16] On 13 March 2025 in Oslo, she officially retained the overall World Cup title after going on a seven-match winning streak, becoming the third woman after Sara Takanashi and Maren Lundby to win more than one World Cup title.[17][18] The next day, Prevc set a women's world record at 236 metres (774ft) during the training session at the ski flying hill in Vikersund.[19] At the 2024–25 World Cup season finale in Lahti, she broke several records. In the final match of the season, Prevc won by a record points margin over the runner-up, after having a 51.4-point lead over second-place finisher Selina Freitag. She also set the record for the most points scored in a women's World Cup season with 1,933, surpassing the 1,909 points set by Lundby in the 2018–19 season. Additionally, she finished the season with ten consecutive World Cup victories, tying Takanashi's record set in 2015–16. She also tied another record held by Takanashi for the most World Cup victories in a single season, with fifteen.[20][21]
At the 2025 Nordic World Ski Championships in Trondheim, Prevc became world champion in both women's individual events (normal hill and large hill), becoming the first woman to win two individual gold medals at the same championship.[22][23] In addition, she also won a silver medal in the mixed team event together with Klinec, Anže Lanišek and her brother Domen Prevc.[24]
Personal life
Prevc was born in Kranj to Božidar and Julijana Prevc; the family has since been living in the village of Dolenja Vas. She has three brothers and a sister.[25][26] All three of her brothers, Peter, Cene and Domen, are also ski jumpers.[25][27] Her father, who owns a furniture business, is an international ski jumping referee.[28]
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