Eva Pinkelnig completed her first jumps from a mobile ski jump at the age of 24 . After several training sessions and a victory in the Austria Cup, she was accepted into the ÖSV squad in summer 2014 . As a result, Peeing quit her previous job as an educator in order to focus on top-class sport.
At the international level, she made her debut at the FIS Cup in Villach in July 2014 and consistently jumped among the top 15 during this and at the subsequent competition in Hinterzarten . With the points she achieved, the then 26-year-old had met the formal requirements for a World Cup start. This took place on December 5, 2014 in Lillehammer, Norway . In the jumping from Lysgårdsbakken she finished 15th. On February 20, 2015, she reached eighth place in her World Cup debut in Falun on the normal hill.
Her debut season 2014/15 was very successful, but her seventh place in the overall World Cup was outshone by the overall victory of Daniela Iraschko-Strolz. The second season 2015/16 ended Eva Pinkelnig in the good midfield, 2016/17 she only scored a single point.
After largely missing out on the 2017/18 season due to an injury and its aftermath, she made a successful comeback in 2018 by finishing in the middle of the first two competitions on the normal hill in Lillehammer with a seventh and a tenth place the world's best. On December 2nd, she surpassed this performance with fourth place on the large hill. In the two subsequent competitions in Premanon , France , she reached positions 18 and 12. In January 2019, she finished fifth and four and twelve and four respectively at the World Cup competitions in Sapporo and Yamagata . At the team competition held on January 19th on the normal hill in Yamagata, she and Jacqueline Seifriedsberger , Chiara Hölzl and Daniela Iraschko-Stolz took second place behind the German team.
On December 7, 2019, the then 31-year-old Pissing finished second behind the Norwegian winner Maren Lundby on the large hill in Lillehammer , which should be the start of a series of strong results. She reached the climax in January 2020 with her first World Cup victory in Sapporo , Japan , when she was already in the lead after the first round with 18.3 points over second-placed Maren Lundby. She also won the competition immediately following in Yamagata , Japan , where she was able to achieve the first ever World Cup victory with the Austrian team and, despite a shortened run, achieved two maximum distances. At the end of the weekend, Pinkelnig won her third World Cup victory in a row and was part of the first Austrian double victory in a World Cup competition.
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