From 1996 Krismayer was part of the Austrian team for the Ski Jumping Continental Cup (COC). In his first season he was able to jump to 27th place overall with 342 points. At the Junior World Championship in 1997 in Canadian Canmore , he won the individual competition of the K89 ski jump bronze medal behind the Norwegian Wilhelm Brenna and the Finnish Jussi Hautamäki . He also won bronze in team jumping with Thomas Hörl , Karl-Heinz Dorner and Wolfgang Loitzl . After successfully starting the 1997/98 Continental Cup season, he made his debut in the ski jumping World Cup on December 8, 1997 in Villach . He jumped from the normal hill to 45th place. The 1997/98 season he finished shortly afterwards with 707 COC points in second place in the overall Continental Cup ranking. At the end of February 1998 he was part of the Austrian team for the World Cup ski flying in Vikersund . On the first day he was able to win his first World Cup points by finishing 23rd. So he finished 80th in the overall World Cup ranking at the end of the 1997/98 World Cup season. In the ski flying ranking he came 42nd. In the following season he started again in three World Cup competitions in Harrachov and Sapporo , where he again succeeded in winning World Cup points in Harrachov. He finished the 1998/99 Continental Cup season in 9th place overall. After a rather unsuccessful 1999/2000 season , Krismayer ended his active ski jumping career in 2000.