Jernej Damjan (born May 28, 1983 in Ljubljana ) is a Slovenian ski jumper . He starts for the SSK Sam Ihan. His biggest single success so far is the victory on the large hill at the Winter Universiade 2003 in Tarvisio . He also won one silver and three bronze medals with the Slovenian team at ski jumping and ski flying world championships . In 2014 he won the Ski Jumping Grand Prix .
Career
Jernej Damjan first stepped into the international limelight at the Continental Cup competitions in Bischofshofen on January 12th and 13th, 2002. After jumping past the points in the first competition on Saturday as 33rd, he achieved his first two Continental Cup points on Sunday 29th. Two months later, Yamagata, Japan celebrated his first victory in this series of competitions. At the Winter Universiade 2003 in Tarvisio , he not only won the gold medal on the large hill, but also achieved second place in the team competition with the Slovenian team. After he had won his second Continental Cup on February 15, 2004 in Westby , he was then used for the first time in the World Cup on January 10, 2004 in Liberec .
Damjan won bronze at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2005 in Oberstdorf with the team from the normal hill. In February 2006 he took part in the Winter Olympics for the first time in Turin . In the individual competitions, he took 35th place on the normal hill and 28th place on the large hill. With the Slovenian team, he was tenth.
He achieved his first podium in the World Cup on February 10, 2007 in Willingen , where he finished third. On February 17th, 2008, he achieved his best result to date in the Willingen individual competition with second place. There were also four fifth places in the 2007/08 season . As a result, he was ranked 15th in the World Cup as the best Slovene. At the 2009 Slovenian Championships in Kranj , he won the bronze medal in both individual and team competitions. In the 2009/10 season he was able to prove an increasing form after he had only finished 37th in the overall World Cup in the 2008/09 season.
At the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver , Damjan retired from the normal hill as 38th level on points with Lukáš Hlava and from the large hill as 33rd after the first round.
At the Slovenian Championships 2010 in Kranj Damjan won the silver medal in both the individual and the team.
At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo , Norway , he won the bronze medal in the team competition with the Slovenian team. He was able to repeat this success a year later at the Ski Flying World Championships 2012 in Vikersund . On August 24, 2013 Damjan achieved his first victory in a Grand Prix competition while jumping in Hakuba, Japan, tied with Noriaki Kasai . After a second place followed in Nizhny Tagil and two in Almaty in the same summer , he finished second in the overall ranking of the Ski Jumping Grand Prix 2013 behind Andreas Wellinger .
Damjan achieved his first World Cup victory on January 18, 2014 in the team competition in Zakopane . Just one week later, on January 26, 2014, he won his first World Cup victory in an individual competition in Sapporo, Japan . The day before, he had jumped on the podium in second place on the same hill. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , he took ninth place on the normal hill and 17th place on the large hill in the individual competitions. With the Slovenian team, he was fifth. At the end of the season he achieved his best place in the overall World Cup ranking with 13th place. He drew attention again in the summer of 2014: A victory in the jumping in Almaty and three further podium finishes (2 × in Hakuba and once in Almaty) brought him the first overall Grand Prix victory at the end of the 2014 summer season . In the 2014/15 World Cup season , he again achieved a podium finish in third place in Engelberg . He also jumped into the top ten several times. In the overall World Cup, he finished 14th in the top 15 for the second time in a row.
After he was still active in Grand Prix in summer 2015 , he was not used in the World Cup the following winter and only started in the Continental Cup . At the Slovenian Championships 2016 in Planica Damjan won the gold medal in the individual competition ahead of Domen Prevc and Nejc Dežman and the silver medal in the team competition with David Krapež , Miha Kveder and Tilen Bartol . After this success he was back in the Slovenian World Cup team in the 2016/17 season . His best result of the season was 13th place in ski flying in Oberstdorf . He also took part in the 2017 Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti . He finished 32nd on the normal hill and 21st on the large hill individually. With the Slovenian team, he was fifth.
At the second individual competition of the 2017/18 World Cup season in Ruka , Finland , he surprisingly secured his second individual World Cup victory ahead of Johann André Forfang and Andreas Wellinger . The Four Hills Tournament 2017/18 he finished after the seats 14, 13, 5 and 17 in tenth overall, what was his until then best finish in the tour standings. At the Ski Flying World Championships 2018 in Oberstdorf he finished 15th in the individual and won the silver medal in team jumping together with Anže Semenič , Domen Prevc and Peter Prevc as second behind Norway. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , he was part of the five-man Slovenian squad and was used in all three competitions. In the individual competition on the normal hill he took 28th place and in the individual competition on the large hill he took 16th place. With the Slovenian team, he was fifth in the team competition on the large hill .
Damjan was canceled for the 2019/20 season due to a serious arm injury. At the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne , Damjan supported the participating ski jumpers as a role model and symbolic figure.
successes
World Cup victories in individual
| No. |
date |
place |
Type
|
| 1. |
January 26, 2014 |
Japan Sapporo
|
Large hill
|
| 2. |
November 26, 2017 |
Finland Kuusamo
|
Large hill
|
World Cup victories in the team
| No. |
date |
place |
Type
|
| 1. |
January 18, 2014 |
Poland Zakopane
|
Large hill
|
| 2. |
January 31, 2015 |
Germany Willingen
|
Large hill
|
Individual Grand Prix victories
| No. |
date |
place |
Type
|
| 1. |
August 24, 2013 |
Japan Hakuba
|
Large hill
|
| 2. |
20th September 2014 |
Kazakhstan Almaty
|
Large hill
|
Continental Cup wins in singles
| No. |
date |
place |
Type
|
| 1. |
March 14, 2002 |
Japan Yamagata
|
Normal hill
|
| 2. |
February 15, 2004 |
United States Westby
|
Normal hill
|
| 3. |
January 9, 2011 |
Japan Sapporo
|
Large hill
|
| 4th |
December 13, 2013 |
Norway Rena
|
Normal hill
|
statistics
World Cup placements
Grand Prix placements
Web links
Individual evidence
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^ Result: Ski jumping Olympic Games Vancouver (CAN) HS106 men . www.sports-reference.com. Retrieved March 10, 2013.
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↑ Olympic Winter Games - Men's HS140 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
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^ National title for Robert Kranjec . berkutschi.com. March 3, 2010. Retrieved March 5, 2010.
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^ "Austria celebrates team hat trick in Vikersund" at www.berkutschi.com , accessed on February 26, 2012.
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↑ Prevc beaten: Damjan surprisingly Slovenian champion , on skispringen.com, from December 22, 2016. Accessed on December 25, 2016.
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↑ Michał Grzela: Koniec sezonu dla Jerneja Damjana. In: skijumping.pl. December 18, 2019, accessed December 18, 2019 (Polish).
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↑ Athlete Role Models for Lausanne 2020 announced. July 29, 2019, accessed January 30, 2020 (American English).
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