Stefan Kraft (ski jumper)
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![]() Kraft at the 2015 Grand Prix in Hinzenbach |
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birthday | 13th May 1993 (age 27) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Schwarzach im Pongau , Austria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
size | 170 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 56 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
job | Army athlete | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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society | SV Schwarzach | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National squad | since 2005 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pers. Best | 253.5 m ![]() |
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status | active | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Debut in the World Cup | January 6, 2012 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World Cup victories (individual) | 21 ( details ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World Cup victories (team) | details ) | 5 (|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Overall World Cup | 2016/17 , 2019/20 ) | 1. (|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ski flying world cup | 2016/17 , 2019/20 ) | 1. (|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Four Hills Tournament | 2014/15 ) | 1. (|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Raw Air | 2017 ) | 1. (|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ski jumping Grand Prix | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Debut in the Grand Prix | October 1, 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Grand Prix victories (individual) | details ) | 1 (|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Overall Grand Prix | 2016 ) | 4th (|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Debut in the COC | February 5, 2011 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
COC wins (individual) | details ) | 7 (|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Overall ranking COC | 13. ( 2011/12 , 2012/13 ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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last change: March 12, 2020 |
Stefan Kraft (born May 13, 1993 in Schwarzach im Pongau ) is an Austrian ski jumper . In 2016/17 and 2019/20 he won both the overall World Cup and the Ski Flying World Cup . In 2017 he was crowned double world champion on normal and large hill in Lahti . In addition, he won the Four Hills Tournament 2014/15 as well as seven other World Championship medals. Since March 18, 2017, he has held the ski flying world record at 253.5 meters .
Career
Kraft, who starts for the SV Schwarzach club, came to ski jumping at the age of ten. There he trained with Christian Wallner. Two years later he made his international debut in the first FIS jumping competitions after finishing sixth overall at the Austria Cup in 2005. From 2008 Kraft started in the Alpencup, before he got his first place in the FIS-Cup in January 2009 in Eisenerz .
At the 2010 Alpine Cup, he consistently achieved good placements, mostly even on the podium. He won the last competition in Hinterzarten on January 15, 2011. He was then nominated by the Association for the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in Otepää , Estonia , and won silver in the individual and gold in the team with Michael Hayböck , Markus Schiffner and Thomas Lackner . He set a new hill record on the Tehvandi hill with 100 meters. After the Junior World Championships he was appointed to the Continental Cup squad and was able to win the first competition in Brotterode . In the second competition he was eighth. Kraft also started in the Continental Cup in Iron Mountain , Kranj and Zakopane and scored points.
In the 2011 summer season, Kraft mainly started in the Continental Cup, where he finished second in Courchevel on July 30, 2011. On October 1, 2011 in Hinzenbach , he was used for the first time in the Summer Grand Prix and was able to score his first two Grand Prix points there straight away as 29th.
World Cup debut
Kraft made his World Cup debut on January 6, 2012 at the final competition of the Four Hills Tournament 2011/12 , when he was 54th in Bischofshofen . In January 2013 he again won his first World Cup points in the course of the Four Hills Tournament on Bergisel in 23rd place. Exactly one year after his World Cup debut, Kraft achieved his first podium in the World Cup with third place in his third World Cup competition in Bischofshofen. Only 2 days later, on January 8th, 2013, he set a new hill record in the qualifying event on the Malinka hill in Wisła with a jump of 139 meters. At the Junior World Championships 2013 in Liberec , Czech Republic , he finished third behind Jaka Hvala and Klemens Murańka , but missed another medal with the Austrian team in fourth. Kraft celebrated his ski flying debut on the Heini-Klopfer ski jumping hill in Oberstdorf on February 16, 2013, and immediately took a strong eleventh place.
First World Cup victory
Kraft achieved his first victory in the World Cup in the opening competition of the Four Hills Tournament 2014/15 on December 29, 2014 in Oberstdorf .
On January 4th, 2015 he set a new hill record with 137.0 meters in Innsbruck , which was improved to 138.0 meters on the same day by his team-mate Michael Hayböck . Two days later he won the overall ranking of the tour in Bischofshofen . At the World Cup competition on March 14, 2015 in Trondheim, he led after the first round. In the second run, his bond broke and he almost fell. With that he lost the overall World Cup lead to the winner of the day Severin Freund, who later became the overall World Cup winner.
Double world champion, world record holder and overall world cup winner 2017
At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2017 in Lahti , Kraft became the first Austrian double world champion in ski jumping. He won on both the normal and the large hill ahead of the German Andreas Wellinger . He also won the silver medal with the mixed team and the bronze medal on the large hill with the team at the end of the World Championships. Thus Kraft won four medals at the World Championships in Lahti in 2017 alone (2 × gold, 1 × silver, 1 × bronze). In the history of the Nordic World Ski Championships, only his two compatriots Thomas Morgenstern (3 × gold, 1 × silver) and Gregor Schlierenzauer (3 × gold) had been even more successful in a single world championship participation in 2011 in Oslo .
On March 18, 2017, he set a new ski flying world record of 253.5 meters in the team competition at Vikersundbakken . He exceeded the previous record set by Norwegian Robert Johansson in the same competition by 1.5 meters and the two-year-old record of his compatriot Anders Fannemel by two meters. He landed another success with the newly introduced Raw Air series, a tour that took place in Norway from March 10th to 19th, which he won just ahead of Kamil Stoch and received 60,000 euros in prize money. At the last season's competition, ski flying on March 26th in Planica , Kraft was able to secure both the overall World Cup ranking and the individual ranking in ski flying with his eighth win of the season.
In February 2018 he took part in the Olympic Winter Games for the first time in Pyeongchang, South Korea . He competed in all three ski jumping competitions. In the individual competition on the normal hill he was ranked 13th and in the individual competition on the large hill he was ranked 18th. With the Austrian team he finished fourth on the large hill and thus fell short of his expectations at the entire winter games.
At the 2019 World Championships in Seefeld in Tirol , he and his teammates Philipp Aschenwald , Michael Hayböck and Daniel Huber won the silver medal in the team competition behind the German team. In the individual competitions he won the bronze medal on the normal hill behind the two Poles Dawid Kubacki and Kamil Stoch . He benefited from the onset of snowfall, which made the inrun track significantly slower after his second jump and thus hit the leaders of the first round in particular. Even the Austrian association president Peter Schröcksnadel spoke of a lottery and criticized sticking to the schedule: “We were lucky. We won a bronze in the lottery and we're happy about that. It was a crazy jump and not regular for me. (...) If you had to wait a little longer you could have covered the heaviest snowfall, the quick pulling through just for television was not the right thing to do. ”He finished sixth on the large hill. In the final mixed team competition he was runner-up behind the German team together with Eva Pinkelnig , Philipp Aschenwald and Daniela Iraschko-Stolz .
successes
World Cup victories in individual
No. | date | place | Type |
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1. | December 29, 2014 |
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Large hill |
2. | 15th January 2015 |
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Large hill |
3. | March 8, 2015 |
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Large hill |
4th | January 24, 2016 |
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Large hill |
5. | December 30, 2016 |
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Large hill |
6th | 4th February 2017 |
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Ski jump |
7th | 5th February 2017 |
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Ski jump |
8th. | 15th February 2017 |
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Large hill |
9. | March 12, 2017 |
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Large hill |
10. | March 16, 2017 |
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Large hill |
11. | March 24, 2017 |
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Ski jump |
12. | March 26, 2017 |
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Ski jump |
13. | January 20, 2019 |
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Large hill |
14th | January 26, 2019 |
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Large hill |
15th | January 27, 2019 |
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Large hill |
16. | March 12, 2019 |
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Large hill |
17th | December 8, 2019 |
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Large hill |
18th | February 2, 2020 |
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Large hill |
19th | February 16, 2020 |
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Ski jump |
20th | February 22, 2020 |
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Normal hill |
21st | February 28, 2020 |
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Large hill |
World Cup victories in the team
No. | date | place | Type |
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1. | March 1, 2014 |
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Large hill |
2. | March 22, 2014 |
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Large hill |
3. | March 11, 2017 |
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Large hill |
4th | February 9, 2019 |
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Large hill |
5. | 23rd November 2019 |
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Large hill |
Individual Grand Prix victories
No. | date | place | Type |
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1. | September 12, 2015 |
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Large hill |
Continental Cup wins in singles
No. | date | place | Type |
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1. | February 5, 2011 |
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Large hill |
2. | January 28, 2012 |
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Large hill |
3. | December 8, 2012 |
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Large hill |
4th | December 9, 2012 |
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Large hill |
5. | December 27, 2012 |
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Large hill |
6th | 3rd February 2013 |
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7th | September 9, 2017 |
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Large hill |
statistics
World Cup placements
season | space | Points |
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2012/13 | 31. | 202 |
2013/14 | 10. | 539 |
2014/15 | 3. | 1578 |
2015/16 | 6th | 1006 |
2016/17 | 1. | 1665 |
2017/18 | 4th | 881 |
2018/19 | 2. | 1349 |
2019/20 | 1. | 1659 |
Grand Prix placements
season | space | Points |
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2011 | 84. | 2 |
2012 | 61. | 13 |
2013 | 75. | 11 |
2014 | 26th | 87 |
2015 | 7th | 240 |
2016 | 4th | 304 |
2017 | 24. | 105 |
2018 | 21st | 94 |
2019 | 30th | 76 |
Four Hills Tournament placements
season | space | Points |
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2011/12 | 67. | 82.5 |
2012/13 | 40. | 480.2 |
2013/14 | 27. | 723.6 |
2014/15 | 1. | 1106.7 |
2015/16 | 5. | 1036.2 |
2016/17 | 6th | 926.5 |
2017/18 | 20th | 859.1 |
2018/19 | 17th | 881.6 |
2019/20 | 5. | 1086.0 |
Raw air placements
season | space | Points |
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2017 | 1. | 2298.1 |
2018 | 4th | 2480.9 |
2019 | 2. | 2458.6 |
Continental Cup placements
season | space | Points |
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2010/11 | 27. | 241 |
2011/12 | 13. | 483 |
2012/13 | 13. | 591 |
2013/14 | 70. | 96 |
2016/17 | 70. | 120 |
2017/18 | 50. | 180 |
Hill records
place | country | Expanse | set up on | Record up |
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Wisła |
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139.0 m ( HS : 134 m) |
January 8, 2013 | current |
Nizhny Tagil |
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138.0 m ( HS : 134 m) |
December 14, 2014 | December 13, 2015 |
innsbruck |
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137.0 m ( HS : 130 m) |
January 4, 2015 | January 4, 2015 |
Sapporo |
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144.0 m ( HS : 137 m) |
February 12, 2017 | January 26, 2019 |
Pyeongchang |
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113.5 m ( HS : 109 m) |
16th February 2017 | current |
Vikersund |
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253.5 m ( HS : 225 m)![]() |
18th March 2017 | current |
Planica |
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251.0 m ( HS : 225 m) |
March 25, 2017 | March 25, 2017 |
Ruka |
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147.5 m ( HS : 142 m) |
November 25, 2017 | current |
Râşnov |
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103.0 m (HS: 97 m) |
February 22, 2020 | current |
Web links
- Stefan Kraft in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Stefan force on Olympic.org - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
- Stefan Kraft's website
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Stefan Kraft . old.junior-jumping.de. Retrieved on February 8, 2011. ( 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.
- ↑ Gold and silver for Salzburg ski jumpers . salzburg.orf.at. Retrieved February 8, 2011.
- ↑ SKIJUMPING.de: Stefan Kraft victorious in Brotterode . www.skijumping.de. Retrieved February 8, 2011.
- ↑ Continental Cup results overview at www.fis-ski.com , accessed on December 27, 2011.
- ↑ Grand Prix results overview at www.fis-ski.com , accessed on December 27, 2011.
- ↑ Schlierenzauer wins in final thriller - sport.ORF.at ( German ) . Accessed on January 7, 2013.
- ↑ Kraft in Wisla-Quali with hill record - sport.ORF.at ( German ) Accessed on January 8, 2013.
- ^ "Jaka Hvala is crowned junior world champion" at www.berkutschi.com, accessed on February 1, 2013.
- ↑ "JWM title also for Slovenian men" at www.berkutschi.com, accessed on February 1, 2013.
- ↑ Richard Freitag wins home victory in Oberstdorf / Kraft with a successful debut at skispringen.com, accessed on February 16, 2013.
- ↑ FIS Ski Jumping World Cup presented by Viessmann. 13th World Cup Competition. Innsbruck (AUT). Large Hill KO. Official Results. (PDF) Fédération Internationale de Ski, January 4, 2015, accessed on January 4, 2015 .
- ↑ Trimmed Eagles: The Flops of the Winter Games in Pyeongchang. In: Tiroler Tageszeitung Online. February 25, 2018, accessed March 20, 2020 .
- ↑ "World Championships in Seefeld: Bronze for Stefan Kraft from the normal hill" , at www.nachrichten.at, accessed on March 18, 2019.
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SURNAME | Kraft, Stefan |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian ski jumper |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 13, 1993 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwarzach im Pongau , Austria |