Primož Peterka

Primož Peterka
Primož Peterka in Zakopane 2009
nation	Slovenia
birthday	February 28, 1979
place of birth	Moravče ,  Yugoslavia
size	182 cm
Career
society	SK Triglav Kranj
National squad	since 1996
Pers. Best	212 m ( Planica 2000)
status	resigned
End of career	2011
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 × JWM medals 0 × 1 × 1 × OPA medals 0 × 0 × 1 × National medals 3 × 3 × 0 ×
winter Olympics bronze 2002 Salt Lake City team  Nordic World Ski Championships bronze 2005 Oberstdorf Team NH  Nordic Junior Ski World Championships silver 1996 Asiago K90 bronze 1996 Asiago Team K90  Nordic ski games from the OPA bronze 1994 Planica singles  Slovenian championships gold 2007 Kranj team gold 2008 Kranj Team 1 silver 2008 Kranj Team 2 silver 2008 Kranj singles gold 2009 Kranj team silver 2009 Ljubno team
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	04th January 1996
World Cup victories (individual)	15 ( details )
Overall World Cup	01. ( 1996/97 , 1997/98 )
Ski flying world cup	01. ( 1996/97 )
Jump World Cup	01. ( 1997/98 )
Four Hills Tournament	01. ( 1996/97 )
Nordic Tournament	14th (2002)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 14th 9 6th  Ski flying 1 1 1  Team jumping 0 2 0
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Debut in the Grand Prix	August 19, 1995
Overall Grand Prix	07th ( 2004 )

Primož Peterka (born February 28, 1979 in Moravče , Yugoslavia ) is a former Slovenian ski jumper and today's ski jumping coach.

Peterka had his most successful period in the mid-1990s: In the 1996/97 season he won the overall World Cup and the Four Hills Tournament , and he was able to defend the overall World Cup in the 1997/98 season. He won a total of 15 world cup competitions.

Career

Early years and first successes

Peterka started ski jumping at the age of seven and made his international debut in the winter of 1994/95 as part of the Ski Jumping Continental Cup . In his first season he reached the points several times and finished the season with 60 points in 116th place overall. He also started in the Continental Cup in the 1995/96 season . After good performances there, Peterka made his debut in the ski jumping World Cup as part of the Four Hills Tournament in Innsbruck in 1995/96 . As eighth, the Slovenian jumped straight into the top ten. In the following competition in Bischofshofen he found himself again in the top 10 in ninth place. Then Peterka remained in the senior national team and celebrated his first World Cup victory in Zakopane three weeks later on the Wielka Krokiew . In the second competition on the following day, he was second on the podium behind Andreas Goldberger .

At the following Junior World Championship in Asiago in 1996 , Peterka won silver in the individual on the normal hill behind Michael Uhrmann . Together with Matija Stegnar , Jaka Grosar and Peter Žonta , he also won the bronze medal in team jumping behind Germany and Austria . In March 1996, in addition to third place in Lahti , Peterka also secured another World Cup victory on the Lugnet hill in Falun . A little later, he finished his first World Cup season in tenth place in the overall World Cup standings.

Overall World Cup winner 1996 to 1998

In the new season 1996/97 Peterka started with a fourth place in Lillehammer . In Kuusamo he celebrated another World Cup victory just a few days later. He was also successful in Harrachov . The 1996/97 Four Hills Tournament began Peterka with seventh place on the Schattenbergschanze in Oberstdorf . In Garmisch-Partenkirchen , he jumped the competition and won. After he achieved two more podium places in Innsbruck and Bischofshofen, he was finally able to win the tour. With this victory behind him, days later he traveled to Engelberg , Switzerland, where he also won both competitions on the Gross-Titlis-Schanze . After his first victory in ski flying on the Kulm , he was one of the favorites for medals at the 1997 Nordic World Ski Championships in Trondheim in March . In the individual on the normal hill, however, he missed the leap into the top of the world and only achieved a weak 31st place. He was also unable to convince his teammates and only ended up in sixth place in the team competition on the large hill. In the individual on the large hill Peterka was able to improve significantly, but also missed a top 10 place in 13th. Although he found it difficult to get back to his old form in Lahti and was 44th without a World Cup point, he celebrated another clear World Cup victory in Falun. After a short time, after winning further points, he also won the overall World Cup. He repeated this success in the following season. He secured four more World Cup victories in the winter of 1997/98 .

At the 1998 Ski Flying World Championships in Oberstdorf, Peterka finished sixth before jumping into the top 10 three times at his first Winter Olympics in Nagano in 1998 . So he finished fifth and sixth in the individual competitions and tenth with the team. Before that, when he was only 18 years old, he had carried the flag of Slovenia at the opening ceremony.

In the summer of 1998 Peterka started for the fourth time at the Summer Grand Prix . In the end he reached 21st place overall .

Performance slump in winter 1998/99

Peterka started the 1998/99 season with 14th and eighth in Lillehammer. As a result, however, he mostly clearly missed the top 10 and only found himself in the middle of the field. Even at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1999 in Ramsau am Dachstein , he had no chance of winning a medal. Also in the Continental Cup, in which he occasionally competed in jumping, Peterka remained without major successes. In the 1999/00 season he even clearly missed the points in some World Cups and was therefore no longer part of the Slovenian senior squad for some World Cups. In the end he only came in 67th place in the overall World Cup ranking. In the Continental Cup, too, it was only 51st place at the end of the season.

Return to the top of the world

For the 2000/01 season , Peterka was able to improve its form again and increasingly showed good top 20 results again. This enabled him to qualify for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and jump from the normal hill of the Utah Olympic Park Jumps to a very good tenth place at the start. He was also able to prove his current form on the large hill with rank 15. With the team he finished the team competition in third place and won his first and only Olympic medal with the bronze medal. At the Team World Cup in Lahti, he and the team achieved another podium a little later in second place.

At the following World Ski Flying Championships in 2002 in Harrachov, Peterka flew in 12th place. The 2001/02 season he finished shortly after in 25th place in the overall World Cup standings. In summer 2002 Peterka celebrated his first podium places in this series with two second places as part of the Continental Cup in Velenje . In the context of the Ski Jumping Grand Prix 2002 , however, he was unable to achieve top placements and, after only being able to win points in Courchevel and Lahti, only finished 46th in the overall ranking.

Primož Peterka 2003

Peterka started the 2002/03 season surprisingly well . So he celebrated his 13th World Cup victory in Kuusamo. His 14th and last victory finally followed on New Year's Day as part of the Four Hills Tournament 2002/03 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. This success was followed by further top 10 placements, including several fourth places. After Peterka was again without an individual medal at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2003 in Val di Fiemme as 18th on the normal hill and 15th on the large hill, he finished the World Cup season in March as seventh overall. He also achieved this place in the overall ranking of the 2003 Ski Jumping Grand Prix in summer. He celebrated another podium place in the team competition in Hinterzarten as third.

Another drop in performance and end of career

In the following years Peterka was only able to achieve good results at World Cups in isolated cases. Nevertheless, he was still part of the Slovenian squad and jumped in the World and Continental Cup. At the ski flying world championship in Planica in 2006 , he only landed on the weak 31st place in individual flying . Even in team flying, which was carried out for the first time, he and the team did not get past sixth place. Although he subsequently remained without great success, Peterka was again part of the Slovenian squad at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2005 in Oberstdorf. Surprisingly, he won the bronze medal in the team competition on the normal hill together with Jure Bogataj , Rok Benkovič and Jernej Damjan . In the team competition on the large hill, the team narrowly missed another medal in fourth.

Primož Peterka 2008

In the 2006/07 season, Peterka started mostly in the Continental Cup and only rarely in the World Cup. For the 2007/08 season , however, he managed to return to the senior national squad after he was able to jump to a very good fourth place with the team at the opening team world cup in Kuusamo. At the beginning of the 2008/09 season he again had a rising form curve and came more often into the points. However, the good form came to an end quickly, so that Peterka contested his last World Cup in February 2009 in Willingen . It was also his premature end of the season.

In the summer of 2009 he was only used in Kranj as part of the Continental Cup, but also disappointed and only finished 27th. At the Slovenian Championship in Kranj in 2009 he won the gold medal in team competition with Robert Kranjec , Peter Prevc and Jaka Oblak . In the individual competition he was twelfth in the end. In January 2010 Peterka tried again to fight in the national team and started in the FIS Cup . Despite mixed results in Harrachov, he joined the B squad in February and started again in the Continental Cup for a few competitions. A return to his top form, however, was subsequently denied, so that he competed in his last international jumping competition in February 2011. In March 2011, on the sidelines of the competitions in Planica, Slovenia, he announced his retirement from active competitive sports. At the beginning of July 2011 he officially said goodbye with jumps on the edge of the Continental Cup in his home town of Kranj.

Career as a ski jumping trainer

Shortly after the announcement of his resignation, Peterka began working as a ski jumping trainer. In May 2011 he got the job as assistant coach of the Slovenian women's national team for the 2011/12 season . In January 2019, his contract with the Slovenian Ski Association was terminated as Peterka moved to Turkey as a coach . The cooperation between him and the Turkish Ski Association only lasted until the end of the 2019/20 season, after which Peterka did not extend his contract.

successes

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	Type
1.	January 29, 1996	Zakopane	Large hill
2.	March 13, 1996	Falun	Normal hill
3.	December 8, 1996	Kuusamo	Large hill
4th	December 15, 1996	Harrachov	Large hill
5.	January 1, 1997	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Large hill
6th	January 11, 1997	Engelberg	Large hill
7th	January 12, 1997	Engelberg	Large hill
8th.	February 9, 1997	Tauplitz / Bad Mitterndorf	Ski jump
9.	March 13, 1997	Falun	Large hill
10.	January 18, 1998	Zakopane	Large hill
11.	March 3, 1998	Lahti	Large hill
12.	March 11, 1998	Falun	Large hill
13.	March 15, 1998	Oslo	Large hill
14th	November 29, 2002	Kuusamo	Large hill
15th	January 1, 2003	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Large hill

Continental Cup wins in singles

No.	date	place	Type
1.	February 11, 1996	Westby	Normal hill
2.	June 28, 1997	Velenje	Normal hill
3.	June 27, 1998	Velenje	Normal hill
4th	June 28, 1998	Velenje	Normal hill
5.	June 26, 1999	Velenje	Normal hill

statistics

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
1995/96	10.	0670
1996/97	01.	1402
1997/98	01.	1253
1998/99	27.	0192
1999/00	67.	0013
2001/02	25th	0180
2002/03	07th	0805
2003/04	45.	0064
2004/05	34.	0104
2005/06	32.	0151
2006/07	81.	0006th
2007/08	40.	0072
2008/09	47.	0040

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
1995	62.	140
1996	30th	026th
1997	19th	069
1998	21st	068
1999	40.	013
2002	46.	008th
2003	07th	122
2004	25th	058
2005	41.	030th
2006	57.	020th
2008	70.	009

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
Falun	Sweden	105.0 m ( HS : 100 m)	March 13, 1996	current
Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Germany	117.5 m ( HS : 140 m)	January 1, 1997	January 1, 1997
Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Germany	118.0 m ( HS : 140 m)	January 1, 1997	December 31, 1997
Lahti	Finland	129.0 m ( HS : 130 m)	March 7, 1998	February 17, 2001
Falun	Sweden	128.0 m ( HS : 134 m)	March 11, 1998	March 13, 2002
innsbruck	Austria	125.0 m ( HS : 130 m)	January 3, 2002	January 3, 2002

Awards

For his successes, Peterka was named Slovenian Sportsman of the Year in 1997 and 1998 .

Private

Peterka has been married to Renata Bohinc , Miss Slovenia from 1996, since May 10, 2003 and has three children. He has lived in Kranj with his family since 2000. Two sports documentaries have been made about Peterka during his career. Already in 1997, the director Beno Hvala made the film Vleci, Primož ( German  Flieg, Primož ), which described his life and early years. In 2002, the director Vlado Škafar shot the film Peterka: leto odločitve ( German  Peterka: year of decision ), in which his performance slump at the time and the way back to the top of the world are discussed. Shortly after the end of his career in 2011, the documentary filmmaker Tomaža Kovšce published a documentary entitled Skoki so moje življenje ( German  ski jumping is my life ).

Web links

Commons : Primož Peterka  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Primož Peterka in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Primož Peterka in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Primoz Peterka on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
• Primoz Peterka in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Results Primož Peterka in the database of wyniki-skoki.hostingasp.pl
• Web site Primoz Peterka (English)
• Primož Peterka on skokinarciarskie.pl (Polish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FIS Junior World Ski Championships 1996 - Men's Team K90 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on January 25, 2015
2. ↑ FIS Junior World Ski Championships 1996 - Men's Team K90 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on January 25, 2015
3. ^ FIS World Ski Championships 1997 - Men's K90 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on January 25, 2015
4. ↑ FIS World Ski Championships 1997 - Men's Team K120 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on January 25, 2015
5. ↑ FIS World Ski Championships 1997 - Men's K120 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on January 25, 2015
6. ↑ FIS Ski-Flying World Championships 1998 - Men's K180 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on January 25, 2015
7. ↑ Slovenia ( English ) Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on June 22, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 25, 2015. 
8. ↑ FIS Ski-Flying World Championships 2002 - Men's K180 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on January 25, 2015
9. ↑ ^{a b} Peterka ends wild rollercoaster ride . Mercury Online. March 26, 2009. Retrieved January 25, 2015.
10. ↑ FIS World Ski Championships 2003 - Men's K95 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on January 25, 2015
11. ↑ FIS World Ski Championships 2003 - Men's K120 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on January 25, 2015
12. ↑ FIS Ski-Flying World Championships 2004 - Men's K185 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on January 25, 2015
13. ↑ FIS Ski-Flying World Championships 2004 - Men's Team K185 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on January 25, 2015
14. ↑ FIS World Ski Championships 2005 - Men's Team HS100 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on January 25, 2015
15. ↑ FIS World Ski Championships 2005 - Men's Team HS137 in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on January 25, 2015
16. ↑ Primož Peterka: Nič, to je to. Konec ever! . RTV Slovenija. March 17, 2011. Retrieved January 25, 2015.
17. ↑ Official farewell poster on the edge of the COC in Kranj  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
18. ↑ Primož Peterka skočil še zadnjič ( Slovenian ) Smucka.com. July 2, 2011. Retrieved January 25, 2015.
19. ↑ Slovenia announces squad for 2012 - Peterka assistant for women . Skispringen-News.de. May 27, 2011. Retrieved January 25, 2015.
20. ^ Slovenian teams for the 2011/12 season
21. ↑ Primož Peterka prekinil pogodbo s SZS. Odhaja v Turčijo. In: siol.net. January 29, 2019, accessed February 9, 2019 (Slovenian). 
22. ↑ Jaka Lopatic: Zgodba Peterke v Turčiji se depending končala. In: siol.net. July 8, 2019, accessed July 8, 2019 (Slovenian). 
23. ↑ Page on the Slovenian Sportsmen of the Year at the Association of Slovenian Sports Journalists ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.