Stefan Kraft

Stefan Kraft
Kraft in 2019
Country	Austria
Born	(1993-05-13) 13 May 1993 (age 31) Schwarzach im Pongau, Austria
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Ski club	SV Schwarzach
Personal best	253.5 m (832 ft) Vikersund, 18 March 2017
World Cup career
Seasons	2012–present
Indiv. starts	324
Indiv. podiums	125
Indiv. wins	45
Team starts	63
Team podiums	44
Team wins	16
Overall titles	3 (2017, 2020, 2024)
Four Hills titles	1 (2015)
Ski Flying titles	3 (2017, 2020, 2023)
Raw Air titles	3 (2017, 2022, 2024)
Medal record Representing   Austria Men's ski jumping Olympic Games 2022 Beijing Team LH World Championships 2017 Lahti Individual NH 2017 Lahti Individual LH 2021 Oberstdorf Individual LH 2015 Falun Team LH 2017 Lahti Mixed team NH 2019 Seefeld Team LH 2019 Seefeld Mixed team NH 2021 Oberstdorf Team LH 2015 Falun Individual NH 2017 Lahti Team LH 2019 Seefeld Individual NH 2021 Oberstdorf Mixed team NH 2023 Planica Team LH Men's ski flying World Championships 2024 Bad Mitterndorf Individual 2024 Bad Mitterndorf Team 2016 Bad Mitterndorf Individual 2016 Bad Mitterndorf Team 2022 Vikersund Individual
Updated on 16 February 2025.

Stefan Kraft (born 13 May 1993) is an Austrian ski jumper. He is one of the most successful ski jumpers of all time, having won the Ski Jumping World Cup and Ski Flying World Cup overall titles three times each, the Four Hills Tournament once and Raw Air Tournament three times, and three individual gold medals at the World Championships. Since March 2017, he has held the ski flying world record of 253.5 metres (832 ft).

Career

Kraft's debut in FIS Ski Jumping World Cup took place in January 2012 in Bischofshofen. He has three world cup wins and won 2014/15 Four Hills Tournament overall. ^[1] His personal best and world record is 253.5 meters set in Vikersund in 2017, ^[2] only half a meter away from Dimitry Vassiliev's 254-meter jump, the longest to date. At FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2015 in Falun, he won the silver medal from Men's team large hill event and bronze from Individual normal hill event.

In March 2017, he clinched his first overall FIS Ski Jumping World Cup title. ^[3]

World Cup results

Kraft in Zakopane 2013.

Season titles

• 6 titles – (3 overall, 3 ski flying)

Season
	Discipline
2016/17	Overall
	Ski flying
2019/20	Overall
	Ski flying
2022/23	Ski flying
2023/24	Overall

Season standings

Season				Tour Standings
	Overall	4H	SF	RA	W6	T5	P7
2011/12	—	67	—	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
2012/13	31	40	32	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
2013/14	10	27	29	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
2014/15			7	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
2015/16	6	5	7	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
2016/17		6			N/A	N/A	N/A
2017/18	4	20	4	4	—	N/A	4
2018/19		17	8		7	N/A	12
2019/20		5		8		4	N/A
2020/21	17	8	22	N/A	15	N/A	17
2021/22	5	26			N/A	N/A	6
2022/23		6			N/A	N/A
2023/24					N/A	N/A	4
2024/25	3		18		N/A	N/A

Wins

No.	Season	Date	Location	Hill	Size
1	2014/15	29 December 2014	Oberstdorf	Schattenbergschanze HS137	LH
2		15 January 2015	Wisła	Malinka HS134	LH
3		8 March 2015	Lahti	Salpausselkä HS130	LH
4	2015/16	24 January 2016	Zakopane	Wielka Krokiew HS134	LH
5	2016/17	30 December 2016	Oberstdorf	Schattenbergschanze HS137	LH
6		4 February 2017	Oberstdorf	Heini-Klopfer-Skiflugschanze HS225	FH
7		5 February 2017	Oberstdorf	Heini-Klopfer-Skiflugschanze HS225	FH
8		15 February 2017	Pyeongchang	Alpensia Ski Jumping Centre HS140	LH
9		12 March 2017	Oslo	Holmenkollbakken HS134	LH
10		16 March 2017	Trondheim	Granåsen HS140	LH
11		24 March 2017	Planica	Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS225	FH
12		26 March 2017	Planica	Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS225	FH
13	2018/19	20 January 2019	Zakopane	Wielka Krokiew HS140	LH
14		26 January 2019	Sapporo	Ōkurayama HS137	LH
15		27 January 2019	Sapporo	Ōkurayama HS137	LH
16		12 March 2019	Lillehammer	Lysgårdsbakken HS140	LH
17	2019/20	8 December 2019	Nizhny Tagil	Tramplin Stork HS134	LH
18		2 February 2020	Sapporo	Ōkurayama HS137	LH
19		16 February 2020	Tauplitz	Kulm HS235	FH
20		22 February 2020	Râșnov	Râșnov Ski Jump HS97	NH
21		28 February 2020	Lahti	Salpausselkä HS130	LH
22	2021/22	11 December 2021	Klingenthal	Vogtland Arena HS140	LH
23		25 February 2022	Lahti	Salpausselkä HS130	LH
24		3 March 2022	Lillehammer	Lysgårdsbakken HS140	LH
25		19 March 2022	Oberstdorf	Heini-Klopfer-Skiflugschanze HS235	FH
26	2022/23	27 November 2022	Ruka [a]	Rukatunturi HS142	LH
27		21 January 2023	Sapporo	Ōkurayama HS137	LH
28		12 March 2023	Oslo	Holmenkollbakken HS134	LH
29		19 March 2023	Vikersund	Vikersundbakken HS240	FH
30		1 April 2023	Planica	Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS240	FH
31	2023/24	25 November 2023	Ruka	Rukatunturi HS142	LH
32		26 November 2023	Ruka	Rukatunturi HS142	LH
33		2 December 2023	Lillehammer	Lysgårdsbakken HS98	NH
34		3 December 2023	Lillehammer	Lysgårdsbakken HS140	LH
35		17 December 2023	Engelberg	Gross-Titlis HS140	LH
36		6 January 2024	Bischofshofen	Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze HS142	LH
37		21 January 2024	Zakopane	Wielka Krokiew HS140	LH
38		11 February 2024	Lake Placid	MacKenzie Intervale Complex HS128	LH
39		17 February 2024	Sapporo	Ōkurayama HS137	LH
40		25 February 2024	Oberstdorf	Heini-Klopfer-Skiflugschanze HS235	FH
41		9 March 2024	Oslo	Holmenkollbakken HS134	LH
42		13 March 2024	Trondheim	Granåsen HS138	NH
43		17 March 2024	Vikersund	Vikersundbakken HS240	FH
44	2024/25	29 December 2024	Oberstdorf	Oberstdorf HS137	LH
45		4 January 2025	Innsbruck	Bergiselschanze HS128	LH

Individual starts (324)

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	32	Points
2011/12																																	0
	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	q	54	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
2012/13																																	202
	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	23	3	28	11	–	–	–	–	–	–	19	11	38	6	14	42	27	22
2013/14																																	539
	14	q	22	25	25	19	12	13	50	30	12	20	33	21	21	22	24	16	15	7	5	2	4	9	11	8	13	9
2014/15																																	1578
	2	13	13	17	11	4	3	6	9	1	6	2	3	2	1	2	2	4	7	6	2	5	–	–	1	3	9	10	5	3	4
2015/16																																	1006
	6	4	14	22	27	7	8	7	9	11	4	4	1	–	–	2	5	6	2	11	8	3	11	4	21	22	10	12	10
2016/17																																	1665
	9	4	3	3	8	6	3	1	3	18	25	2	4	–	2	1	1	3	3	1	2	1	1	5	1	1
2017/18																																	881
	3	13	4	3	12	13	3	4	31	24	4	9	15	–	–	3	2	8	2	5	3	2
2018/19																																	1349
	21	26	10	5	20	8	12	3	49	2	3	4	2	1	1	1	6	3	7	4	11	10	2	1	3	3	14	17
2019/20																																	1659
	21	4	7	1	2	2	18	4	13	4	4	2	2	2	11	2	2	1	4	3	1	3	1	1	2	8	17
2020/21																																	429
	32	–	–	–	–	–	–	6	28	8	4	9	3	–	5	23	6	19	16	10	5	–	23	29	17
2021/22																																	1069
	q	3	4	7	3	1	26	9	14	12	q	23	24	17	–	22	9	25	6	1	3	1	8	3	1	3	6	11
2022/23																																	1790
	3	5	2	1	8	3	4	6	5	18	4	14	3	5	1	18	2	3	8	13	16	3	–	2	1	2	8	2	1	2	1	3
2023/24																																	2149
	1	1	1	1	2	9	3	1	3	6	6	1	2	1	39	6	24	1	1	4	3	1	49	8	1	3	5	1	1	2	7	4
2024–25																																	1027
	4	4	3	2	7	3	11	9	14	3	1	8	1	3	7	29	7	12	4	9	14	6	5

Podiums

Season	Podiums
	Medals			Total
2011/12	-	-	-	-
2012/13	-	-	1	1
2013/14	-	1	-	1
2014/15	3	6	4	13
2015/16	1	2	1	4
2016/17	8	3	6	17
2017/18	-	3	5	8
2018/19	4	3	5	12
2019/20	5	8	2	15
2020/21	-	-	1	1
2021/22	4	-	5	9
2022/23	5	6	6	17
2023/24	13	3	4	20
Total	43	35	40	118

Ski jumping world record

Current world record longest standing ski jump in the world.

Date	Hill	Location	Metres	Feet
18 March 2017	Vikersundbakken HS225	Vikersund, Norway	253.5	832

Olympic results

Year
	Age	Normal hill	Large hill	Team	Mixed Team
2018 Pyeongchang	24	13	18	4	–
2022 Beijing	28	10	13	1	5

World Championships

• 13 medals – (3 gold, 5 silver, 5 bronze)

Year
	Normal Hill	Large Hill	Team (men)	Team (mixed)
2013 Val di Fiemme	33	8	–	–
2015 Falun	3	5	2	4
2017 Lahti	1	1	3	2
2019 Seefeld	3	6	2	2
2021 Oberstdorf	10	1	2	3
2023 Planica	4	6	3	4

Notes

1. Tied with Halvor Egner Granerud

References

1. "Stefan Kraft wins 4-Hills, Michael Hayboeck takes win in Bischofshofen" (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
2. "Austria's Stefan Kraft breaks world record after landing 253.5m ski jump". Guinness World Records. 22 March 2017. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
3. Gayle, Everton (26 March 2017). "Stefan Kraft wins ski jumping world cup title". euronews. Retrieved 27 October 2020.

External links

• Stefan Kraft at FIS (ski jumping)
• Stefan Kraft at Olympedia