Peter Prevc

Peter Prevc

Prevc in Hinzenbach, 2016
Country  Slovenia
Born (1992-09-20) 20 September 1992
Kranj, Slovenia
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Ski club SK Triglav Kranj
Personal best 250 m (820 ft)
Vikersund, 14 Feb 2015
World Cup career
Seasons 2010–present
Individual wins 21
Team wins 9
Indiv. podiums 50
Team podiums 16
Yellow bibs 33
Indiv. starts 170
Team starts 34
Overall titles 1 (2016)
Four Hills titles 1 (2016)
Ski Flying titles 3 (2014, 2015, 2016)
Medal record
Men's ski jumping
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 0 1 1
World Championships 0 1 2
Ski Flying World Championships 1 0 1
Total 1 2 4
Olympic Games
2014 Sochi Individual NH
2014 Sochi Individual LH
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
2013 Val di Fiemme Individual LH
2011 Oslo Team LH
2013 Val di Flemme Individual NH
Men's ski flying
FIS Ski Flying World Championships
2016 Bad Mitterndorf Individual
2014 Harrachov Individual
Updated on 4 December 2016.

Peter Prevc (Slovene: [péːtər préːút͡s]; born 20 September 1992) is a Slovenian ski jumper. One of the most successful contemporary athletes in the sport, he is the winner of the 2016 Ski Jumping World Cup, having finished as the runner-up in 2014 and 2015. His other career accomplishments include winning the 2016 Four Hills Tournament; the 2016 Ski Flying World Championships; three consecutive Ski Flying World Cup titles (2014, 2015 and 2016); silver and bronze medals at the 2014 Winter Olympics; silver and bronze at the 2013 Ski Jumping World Championships; bronze at the 2014 Ski Flying World Championships; and bronze with the Slovenian national team at the 2011 Ski Jumping World Championships.

Prevc is a former world record holder, being the first athlete in history to land a jump of 250 metres (820 ft), which still stands as the Slovenian national distance record. An expert in ski flying, he has 33 jumps over 230 m (750 ft) and 12 jumps over 240 m (790 ft); these totals are by far the most of anyone in both categories. On 20 March 2015 in Planica, Prevc became one of the few ski jumpers in history to achieve a "perfect jump", with all five judges giving him the maximum style points of 20.[1] On 17 March 2016, also in Planica, Prevc achieved the most individual wins in a single season, with 14;[2] this was followed on 20 March with 15, now the all-time record.

In 2013, 2014, and 2015, Prevc was named the Slovenian Sportsperson of the Year.[3][4][5] Prevc was voted Athlete of the Month at the United States Sports Academy for April 2016 and will be eligible for Athlete of the Year, an award to be voted on at the end of the year.[6]

Professional career

World Cup debut

Prevc made his World Cup debut in the 2009/10 season, finishing 22nd in Lillehammer, Norway, on 5 December 2009. That season, he finished at 35th place in the overall standings.[7] Prevc also represented Slovenia at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, where he finished 7th in the individual normal hill and 16th in the individual large hill. Together with Robert Kranjec, Primož Pikl, and Mitja Mežnar, he finished 8th in the team large hill event.[8]

2010/11 season

In the 2010/11 season, Prevc first participated at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo. Together with Robert Kranjec, Jernej Damjan, and Jurij Tepeš, he won a bronze medal at the team large hill. At the end of the year, the ski jumping team was voted the Slovenian Sports Team of the Year by the Association of Slovene sports journalists.[9] In March 2011, Prevc made his ski flying debut in Planica. In the sky flying team event, Prevc won his first World Cup podium, a third place. In the overall standings, he finished the season in 24th place.[7]

2011/12 season

In the 2011/12 season, Prevc recorded four top 10 finishes. In February, Prevc was a member of the team that won the first ever World Cup team victory for Slovenia at the ski flying team event in Oberstdorf, together with Robert Kranjec, Jurij Tepeš, and Jure Šinkovec. Prevc jumped 225.5 meters (which would equal the hill record) in the one-series event but fell hard after the landing and injured his shoulder.[10] He required an operation which meant that he had to finish the season early and also missed out the Ski Flying World Championships in Vikersund. Although he missed the last five events of the season, Prevc finished 15th in the overall standings.[7]

2012/13 season

In the 2012/13 season, Prevc won three World Cup team events in Zakopane, Willingen, and Planica. At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in Val di Fiemme, Prevc won a silver medal at the individual large hill event[11] and a bronze medal at the individual normal hill event.[12] At the last two events of the season in Planica, Prevc reached his first two individual World Cup podiums, a second and a third place. He finished the season 7th in the overall standings.[7] At the end of the year, Prevc was voted the Slovenian Sportman of the Year for the first time.[9]

2013/14 season

In the 2013/14 season, Prevc recorded his first individual World Cup win in Kulm. With a second place at the same venue, Prevc won the season's ski flying title since there were only two scheduled ski flying events in the season. He went on to win in Sapporo which brought him to the top of the World Cup overall standings for the first time in his career,[13] where he remained for the next couple of events. At the end of the season, he finished 2nd in the overall rankings, after Kamil Stoch of Poland. Prevc also won the last world cup event of the season in Planica, accumulating three wins and eleven podiums in total which was his most successful season until then.

At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Prevc won a silver medal at the normal hill event and a bronze medal at the large hill event.[8] At the FIS Ski Flying World Championships 2014, he took bronze after the last two out of four jumps were cancelled.[7]

2014/15 season

The 2014/15 season was very successful for Prevc, with 3 wins and 11 more podiums in the World Cup. In addition, he won two team events and one third place with the Slovenian team. On 14 February 2015, Prevc set a new ski flying world record in Vikersund with a 250 m (820 ft) jump. This record was beaten the following day with a 251.5 metres (825 ft) jump by Anders Fannemel.[14] On 20 March in Planica, Prevc achieved a "perfect jump" with all style referees awarding him maximum 20 points. At the same event, he also set a new hill record with 248.5 m.[15] Prevc spent a couple of weeks at the top of the standings during the season. At the end, he shared the same number of points in the first place with Severin Freund of Germany. However, the overall title went to Freund because of the higher number of victories during the season (9 for Freund and 3 for Prevc).[16] Prevc defended the ski flying title.[7]

At the 2015 World Championships, Prevc finished 4th on the large hill, 13th on the normal hill, and 6th with the Slovenian team at the team event. Prevc took two 3rd places at the 2014–15 Four Hills Tournament which secured him a 3rd place in the overall tournament standing.

2015/16 season

Prevc in Titisee-Neustadt, 2016

Prevc dominated the 2015/16 season by winning 15 out of 29 World Cup events, winning the Four Hills Tournament, and the overall and ski flying titles.[7]

On 19 December in Engelberg, Peter and his younger brother Domen Prevc both finished on the podium as the first pair of brothers in World Cup history.[17] With three wins and one third place, Prevc won the 2016 Four Hills Tournament, thus becoming the second Slovenian ski jumper to win the Tournament after Primož Peterka in the 1996/97 season.[18]

On 16 January at the Ski Flying World Championships in Kulm, Prevc became the ski flying world champion. The event consisted of three rounds as the fourth round was cancelled because of strong wind. He set two hill records during the competition.[19] Slovenian team finished 4th.

On 14 February in Vikersund Prevc slided the ground with his back, but remained on his feet and won the event.[20] By winning the second event in Almaty on 28 February, Prevc secured his first World Cup title, six events before the end of the season. At the end of the season, Prevc broke several statistical records. He won the highest number of points, victories, and podium finishes in a single season (2303 points, 15 victories and 22 podiums in total, the previous records being 2083 points, 13 victories, and 20 podiums of Gregor Schlierenzauer from the 2008/09 season). Other records include the point difference between the first and the second in the overall standings (813), the best average of points per event (79.4), and the highest number of points in the Four Hills Tournament (1139.4). By winning the ski flying title, Prevc became the first ski jumper to win the title for three years in a row.[21]

World Cup

Standings

Season Overall SF 4H RA NT
2009/10 35 – 41 N/A 10
2010/11 24 36 13 N/A N/A
2011/12 15 18 20 N/A N/A
2012/13 7 5 8 N/A N/A
2013/14 2nd, silver medalist(s) 1st, gold medalist(s) 4 N/A N/A
2014/15 2nd, silver medalist(s) 1st, gold medalist(s) 3rd, bronze medalist(s) N/A N/A
2015/16 1st, gold medalist(s) 1st, gold medalist(s) 1st, gold medalist(s) N/A N/A
2016/17 7 N/A

Wins

No. Season Date Location Hill Size
1 2013/14 12 January 2014 Austria Tauplitz/Bad Mitterndorf Kulm HS200 FH
2 25 January 2014 Japan Sapporo Ōkurayama HS134 (night) LH
3 23 March 2014 Slovenia Planica Bloudkova velikanka HS139 LH
4 2014/15 24 January 2015 Japan Sapporo Ōkurayama HS134 (night) LH
5 14 February 2015 Norway Vikersund Vikersundbakken HS225 (night) FH
6 20 March 2015 Slovenia Planica Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS225 FH
7 2015/16 13 December 2015 Russia Nizhny Tagil Tramplin Stork HS134 (night) LH
8 19 December 2015 Switzerland Engelberg Gross-Titlis-Schanze HS137 LH
9 20 December 2015 Switzerland Engelberg Gross-Titlis-Schanze HS137 LH
10 1 January 2016 Germany Garmisch-Partenkirchen Große Olympiaschanze HS140 LH
11 3 January 2016 Austria Innsbruck Bergiselschanze HS130 LH
12 6 January 2016 Austria Bischofshofen Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze HS140 (night) LH
13 10 January 2016 Germany Willingen Mühlenkopfschanze HS145 LH
14 30 January 2016 Japan Sapporo Ōkurayama HS134 (night) LH
15 10 February 2016 Norway Trondheim Granåsen HS140 (night) LH
16 13 February 2016 Norway Vikersund Vikersundbakken HS225 (night) FH
17 14 February 2016 Norway Vikersund Vikersundbakken HS225 FH
18 27 February 2016 Kazakhstan Almaty Sunkar HS140 (night) LH
19 28 February 2016 Kazakhstan Almaty Sunkar HS140 (night) LH
20 17 March 2016 Slovenia Planica Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS225 FH
21 20 March 2016 Slovenia Planica Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS225 FH

Individual starts (170)

Season 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Points
2009/10 106
– 22 31 q 26 27 32 28 36 q – – – – 14 26 – – – 17 14 19 14
2010/11 218
12 25 32 31 32 39 17 12 27 11 18 – – – – 23 11 12 18 24 q – – 16 21 17
2011/12 400
16 24 23 14 21 42 20 31 19 11 20 21 13 4 6 35 7 13 10 4 8 – – – – –
2012/13 744
10 9 15 13 q 14 6 18 10 5 15 26 11 15 9 26 5 5 20 7 4 18 13 6 15 2 3
2013/14 1312
21 12 23 14 27 11 15 8 3 18 6 2 2 1 5 2 1 2 7 3 2 4 6 4 45 11 3 1
2014/15 1729
5 9 4 5 2 5 9 5 12 3 3 11 4 4 2 4 1 3 2 4 3 7 1 16 4 17 2 2 3 1 2
2015/16 2303
2 11 2 2 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 3 1 6 1 4 1 1 5 9 4 1 1 5 2 1 2 1
2016/17 105
3 7 22

Personal life

Prevc was born in Kranj but has since been living in a small village called Dolenja Vas. Prevc is the oldest of five children and his family is closely connected to ski jumping. His father is an international skip jumping referee[22] and his two younger brothers, Domen and Cene Prevc, have already made their World Cup debuts. Sister Nika is training ski jumping as well.[23][24]

Prevc attended the first half of his elementary school education in Selca and the second half in Železniki. He then continued at a grammar school in Kranj. Prevc started training ski jumping at the age of nine, first at the Bregarca K25 hill, which is still standing in Dolenja Vas.[25] Prevc is viewed as a modest and hardworking person and is a role model for the youth.[26][27]

Outside of ski jumping Prevc enjoys following football and is a declared supporter of Slovenian club NK Maribor.[28][29]

References

General
Specific
  1. ↑ "Popolno: Rekord in zmaga Prevca, Tepeš drugi!" [Perfect: Record and win for Prevc, Tepeš second] (in Slovenian). RTV Slovenia. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
  2. ↑ "Ski Jumping: Prevc breaks record for season wins!". euronews. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
  3. ↑ "Športniki leta Mazejeva, Prevc in hokejska reprezentanca" [Sportsperson of the year are Maze, Prevc and hockey national team] (in Slovenian). RTV Slovenia. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
  4. ↑ "Športnik leta: zmagovalci Tina Maze, Peter Prevc in hokejska reprezentanca" [Sportsperson of the year: Wins for Tina Maze, Peter Prevc and hockey national team] (in Slovenian). Delo. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
  5. ↑ "Športniki leta Tina Maze, Peter Prevc in slovenski odbojkarji" [Sportperson of the year Tina Maze, Peter Prevc and Slovenian volleyball team] (in Slovenian). RTV Slovenia. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
  6. ↑ "Ski jumper, tennis player voted Academy Athletes of the Month for March". blog.al.com. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "PREVC Peter - Biographie". Data.fis-ski.com. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  8. 1 2 "Peter Prevc Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at". Sports-reference.com. 20 September 1992. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  9. 1 2 "Športnik leta | DŠNS". Dsns.si. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  10. ↑ "Video: Kljub nesrečnemu Prevcu skakalci pisali zgodovino :: Prvi interaktivni multimedijski portal, MMC RTV Slovenija". RTV Slovenija. 19 February 2012. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  11. ↑ "Individual large hill event at FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2013" (PDF). International Ski Federation. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
  12. ↑ "Individual normal hill event at FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2013" (PDF). International Ski Federation. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
  13. ↑ "Peter Prevc took a clear win in Sapporo". International Ski Federation. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
  14. ↑ "Ski jump: watch Anders Fannemel set the new world record". The Telegraph. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
  15. ↑ "Norišnica v Planici: dvojna zmaga Slovenije, Prevc Freundu diha za ovratnik" [Frenzy in Planica: double win for Slovenia, Prevc very close to Freund in overall ranking] (in Slovenian). Siol. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  16. ↑ "Dvojna slovenska zmaga z grenkim priokusom: Tepeš prvi in Prevc drugi, Freundu globus" [Bitter double win for Slovenia: Tepeš first, Prevc second and overall title for Freund] (in Slovenian). Delo. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  17. ↑ "Zgodovinsko: dvojna zmaga bratov Prevc" [First time in world cup history two brothers on podium] (in Slovenian). RTV Slovenija. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
  18. ↑ "Slovenija navdušena: kralj Peter šampionsko dokončal delo" [Slovenia in trans: King Peter finished the job as super champion] (in Slovenian). RTV Slovenija. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
  19. ↑ M.R. (16 January 2016). "Prevc z novim rekordom Kulma svetovni prvak!" (in Slovenian). RTV Slovenija. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  20. ↑ T. O.; S. J. (14 February 2016). "Ljubezen med Prevcem in Vikersundom: Peter slavil kljub padcu" (in Slovenian). RTV Slovenija. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  21. ↑ "Prevc: taka sezona se bo težko še kdaj ponovila" [Prevc: it will be very hard to repeat this season ever again] (in Slovenian). RTV Slovenija. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  22. ↑ "Oče Petra Prevca bo v Oslu pod dodatnim drobnogledom". siol.net. 20 January 2016. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  23. ↑ "Mama Petra Prevca: Strah me je! A ne na zaletišču, nekje drugje". Ekipa24.si. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  24. ↑ "Nika Prevc po stopinjah svojih bratov" [Nika Prevc is following her brothers footsteps] (in Slovenian). Ekipa. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
  25. ↑ "Gospod inženir, skakalnica je narejena" [Mr. engineer, hill is ready] (in Slovenian). Delo. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
  26. ↑ Agata Rakovec Kurent/revija Avenija (19 February 2016). "Peter Prevc: 'Jaz nimam meja'". Svet24.si. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  27. ↑ Avtor: Nika Vistoropski. "Peter Prevc: Vsako leto požiram večji cmok" (in (Slovene)). Slovenskenovice.si. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  28. ↑ "Prevc: Trenutno imam na nočni omarici knjigo Dajte Gogiju žogo!" [Prevc: Currently there is a book Dajte Gogiju žogo on my night table!]. Slovenian Press Agency. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  29. ↑ "Peter Prevc: Samo za Olimpijo ne" [Peter Prevc: Never for Olimpija]. Ekipa. Retrieved 8 October 2015.

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Preceded by
Johan Remen Evensen		 World's longest ski jump
250 m (820 ft)
14 February 2015 – 15 February 2015 		Succeeded by
Anders Fannemel
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