Stefan Kraft (ski jumper)

Stefan Kraft
Kraft at the 2015 Grand Prix in Hinzenbach
nation	Austria
birthday	13th May 1993 (age 27)
place of birth	Schwarzach im Pongau , Austria
size	170 cm
Weight	56 kg
job	Army athlete
Career
society	SV Schwarzach
National squad	since 2005
Pers. Best	253.5 m ( Vikersund 2017)
status	active
Medal table
World Cup medals 2 × 4 × 3 × SFWM medals 0 × 0 × 2 × JWM medals 1 × 1 × 2 × National medals 2 × 6 × 2 ×
Nordic World Ski Championships silver 2015 Falun team bronze 2015 Falun Normal hill gold 2017 Lahti Normal hill gold 2017 Lahti Large hill silver 2017 Lahti Mixed team bronze 2017 Lahti team silver 2019 Seefeld team silver 2019 Seefeld Mixed team bronze 2019 Seefeld Normal hill  Ski flying world championships bronze 2016 Bad Mitterndorf singles bronze 2016 Bad Mitterndorf team  Ski jumping junior world championship gold 2011 Otepää team silver 2011 Otepää singles bronze 2012 Erzurum team bronze 2013 Liberec singles  Austrian championships silver 2015 Tschagguns Normal hill gold 2015 Innsbruck Large hill gold 2016 Villach Normal hill bronze 2016 Villach team silver 2016 Bischofshofen Large hill silver 2017 iron ore Normal hill silver 2017 iron ore team silver 2017 Bischofshofen Large hill silver 2018 Villach Normal hill bronze 2016 Bischofshofen Large hill
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	0January 6, 2012
World Cup victories (individual)	21 ( details )
World Cup victories (team)	05 ( details )
Overall World Cup	01. ( 2016/17 , 2019/20 )
Ski flying world cup	01. ( 2016/17 , 2019/20 )
Four Hills Tournament	01. ( 2014/15 )
Raw Air	01. ( 2017 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 16 23 19th  Ski flying 5 3 5  Team jumping 5 8th 12
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Debut in the Grand Prix	0October 1, 2010
Grand Prix victories (individual)	01 ( details )
Overall Grand Prix	04th ( 2016 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 1 2 1  Team jumping 0 0 1
Ski Jumping Continental Cup (COC)
Debut in the COC	0February 5, 2011
COC wins (individual)	07 ( details )
Overall ranking COC	13. ( 2011/12 , 2012/13 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 7th 6th 2
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.

Kraft at the 2019 World Cup in Seefeld

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
01.	December 29, 2014	Oberstdorf	Large hill
02.	15th January 2015	Wisła	Large hill
03.	March 8, 2015	Lahti	Large hill
04th	January 24, 2016	Zakopane	Large hill
05.	December 30, 2016	Oberstdorf	Large hill
06th	4th February 2017	Oberstdorf	Ski jump
07th	5th February 2017	Oberstdorf	Ski jump
08th.	15th February 2017	Pyeongchang	Large hill
09.	March 12, 2017	Oslo	Large hill
10.	March 16, 2017	Trondheim	Large hill
11.	March 24, 2017	Planica	Ski jump
12.	March 26, 2017	Planica	Ski jump
13.	January 20, 2019	Zakopane	Large hill
14th	January 26, 2019	Sapporo	Large hill
15th	January 27, 2019	Sapporo	Large hill
16.	March 12, 2019	Lillehammer	Large hill
17th	December 8, 2019	Nizhny Tagil	Large hill
18th	February 2, 2020	Sapporo	Large hill
19th	February 16, 2020	Bad Mitterndorf	Ski jump
20th	February 22, 2020	Râşnov	Normal hill
21st	February 28, 2020	Lahti	Large hill

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	Type
1.	March 1, 2014	Lahti	Large hill
2.	March 22, 2014	Planica	Large hill
3.	March 11, 2017	Oslo	Large hill
4th	February 9, 2019	Lahti	Large hill
5.	23rd November 2019	Wisła	Large hill

Individual Grand Prix victories

No.	date	place	Type
1.	September 12, 2015	Almaty	Large hill

Continental Cup wins in singles

No.	date	place	Type
1.	February 5, 2011	Brotterode	Large hill
2.	January 28, 2012	Bischofshofen	Large hill
3.	December 8, 2012	Almaty	Large hill
4th	December 9, 2012	Almaty	Large hill
5.	December 27, 2012	Engelberg	Large hill
6th	3rd February 2013	Planica	Large hill
7th	September 9, 2017	Stams	Large hill

statistics

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
2012/13	31.	0202
2013/14	10.	0539
2014/15	03.	1578
2015/16	06th	1006
2016/17	01.	1665
2017/18	04th	0881
2018/19	02.	1349
2019/20	01.	1659

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
2011	84.	002
2012	61.	013
2013	75.	011
2014	26th	087
2015	07th	240
2016	04th	304
2017	24.	105
2018	21st	094
2019	30th	076

Four Hills Tournament placements

season	space	Points
2011/12	67.	0082.5
2012/13	40.	0480.2
2013/14	27.	0723.6
2014/15	01.	1106.7
2015/16	05.	1036.2
2016/17	06th	0926.5
2017/18	20th	0859.1
2018/19	17th	0881.6
2019/20	05.	1086.0

Raw air placements

season	space	Points
2017	1.	2298.1
2018	4th	2480.9
2019	2.	2458.6

Continental Cup placements

season	space	Points
2010/11	27.	241
2011/12	13.	483
2012/13	13.	591
2013/14	70.	096
2016/17	70.	120
2017/18	50.	180

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
Wisła	Poland	139.0 m ( HS : 134 m)	January 8, 2013	current
Nizhny Tagil	Russia	138.0 m ( HS : 134 m)	December 14, 2014	December 13, 2015
innsbruck	Austria	137.0 m ( HS : 130 m)	January 4, 2015	January 4, 2015
Sapporo	Japan	144.0 m ( HS : 137 m)	February 12, 2017	January 26, 2019
Pyeongchang	South Korea	113.5 m ( HS : 109 m)	16th February 2017	current
Vikersund	Norway	253.5 m ( HS : 225 m)	18th March 2017	current
Planica	Slovenia	251.0 m ( HS : 225 m)	March 25, 2017	March 25, 2017
Ruka	Finland	147.5 m ( HS : 142 m)	November 25, 2017	current
Râşnov	Romania	103.0 m (HS: 97 m)	February 22, 2020	current

Web links

Commons : Stefan Kraft  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 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

1. ↑ ^{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.  
2. ↑ Gold and silver for Salzburg ski jumpers . salzburg.orf.at. Retrieved February 8, 2011.
3. ↑ SKIJUMPING.de: Stefan Kraft victorious in Brotterode . www.skijumping.de. Retrieved February 8, 2011.
4. ↑ Continental Cup results overview at www.fis-ski.com , accessed on December 27, 2011.
5. ↑ Grand Prix results overview at www.fis-ski.com , accessed on December 27, 2011.
6. ↑ Schlierenzauer wins in final thriller - sport.ORF.at ( German ) . Accessed on January 7, 2013.
7. ↑ Kraft in Wisla-Quali with hill record - sport.ORF.at ( German ) Accessed on January 8, 2013.
8. ^ "Jaka Hvala is crowned junior world champion" at www.berkutschi.com, accessed on February 1, 2013.
9. ↑ "JWM title also for Slovenian men" at www.berkutschi.com, accessed on February 1, 2013.
10. ↑ Richard Freitag wins home victory in Oberstdorf / Kraft with a successful debut at skispringen.com, accessed on February 16, 2013.
11. ↑ 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 . 
12. ↑ Trimmed Eagles: The Flops of the Winter Games in Pyeongchang. In: Tiroler Tageszeitung Online. February 25, 2018, accessed March 20, 2020 . 
13. ↑ "World Championships in Seefeld: Bronze for Stefan Kraft from the normal hill" , at www.nachrichten.at, accessed on March 18, 2019.