Nika Prevc

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Nika Prevc
File:2022-03-13 Wintersport, Skisprung-Weltcup der Frauen in Oberhof 1DX 7249 by Stepro.jpg
Prevc in 2022
Personal information
Born (2005-03-15) 15 March 2005 (age 21)[1]
Kranj, Slovenia
Sport
SportSkiing
ClubSK Triglav Kranj
World Cup career
Seasons2022–present
Indiv. starts90
Indiv. podiums40
Indiv. wins26
Team starts6
Team podiums2
Team wins1
Overall titles2 (2024, 2025)
Raw Air titles1 (2025)
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)236 m (774 ft) Women's world record
Vikersund, 14 March 2025
Medal record
Representing File:Flag of Slovenia.svg Slovenia
Women's ski jumping
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2025 Trondheim Individual NH
Gold medal – first place 2025 Trondheim Individual LH
Silver medal – second place 2025 Trondheim Mixed LH
European Games
Silver medal – second place 2023 Kraków-Małopolska Individual NH
Silver medal – second place 2023 Kraków-Małopolska Individual LH
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Kraków-Małopolska Mixed NH
World Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Zakopane Individual NH
Gold medal – first place 2022 Zakopane Team NH
Gold medal – first place 2023 Whistler Mixed NH
Silver medal – second place 2022 Zakopane Mixed NH
Silver medal – second place 2023 Whistler Individual NH
Silver medal – second place 2023 Whistler Team NH
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Lahti Team NH
European Youth Winter Olympic Festival
Gold medal – first place 2022 Vuokatti Individual
Gold medal – first place 2022 Vuokatti Mixed team
Gold medal – first place 2023 Friuli-Venezia Giulia Individual
Gold medal – first place 2023 Friuli-Venezia Giulia Team
Gold medal – first place 2023 Friuli-Venezia Giulia Mixed team
Updated on 21 December 2025

Nika Prevc (born 15 March 2005) is a Slovenian ski jumper.[2] She is one of the most successful women's ski jumpers of all time with two overall FIS Ski Jumping World Cup titles, two individual gold medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, and three gold medals at the FIS Nordic Junior World Ski Championships. Prevc has also won 26 individual World Cup events, the third-most behind only Sara Takanashi and Maren Lundby. In addition, she holds the record for the most points won in a women's World Cup season (1,933), and the joint record for the most consecutive wins (10) and total wins (15) in a single World Cup season.

Prevc is the current women's world record holder with 236 metres (774 ft), set in Vikersund on 14 March 2025.

Career

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Early career

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Prevc made her official ski jumping debut on 5 August 2018, at the age of 13, at the FIS Ski Jumping Alpen Cup competition in Klingenthal. She finished in 29th place out of 55 competitors.[3] Almost exactly a year later, on 4 August 2019, she achieved her first Alpen Cup victory at the same venue.[4]

In the 2020–21 Alpen Cup season, Prevc became the overall winner of the competition with 597 points out of 8 events; she also finished outside the top three only twice.[5] In the same season, she also made her debut in the FIS Ski Jumping Continental Cup, where she finished seventh overall.[6]

World Cup debut, first podium and youth world champion (2021–2023)

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Prevc competing in Hinzenbach in February 2023, where she won her first World Cup podium.

Prevc made her debut in the top-tier FIS Ski Jumping World Cup in November 2021, aged 16, in Nizhny Tagil.[7] She finished her inaugural match in 23rd place, which was enough for her first World Cup points.[8]

Prevc won several gold medals at junior level in 2022. She won the individual gold at the 2022 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival, in addition to gold in the mixed team event.[9] Prevc also became the junior world champion at the 2022 Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in Zakopane, where she also won gold in the women's team event and a silver medal in the mixed team event with the Slovenia national team.[10]

In February 2023, she finished on the World Cup podium for the first time after finishing third in Hinzenbach.[11]

World Cup domination and records (2023–present)

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The 2023–24 season marked a breakthrough in her career. On 16 December 2023 in Engelberg, Prevc achieved her first individual World Cup victory after finishing above her countrywoman Ema Klinec.[12] She then clinched the overall ranking of the inaugural 'Two Nights Tour' with a victory in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and a fifth-place finish in Oberstdorf,[13] and took the lead in the overall World Cup standings after a victory in Villach in January 2024.[14] Prevc finished the season in first place with 1,454 points, winning 7 out of 24 events. She became the fourth Slovenian ski jumper to win the overall World Cup title after Primož Peterka, her brother Peter Prevc, and Nika Križnar.[15]

In the 2024–25 season, Prevc again won the overall ranking of the Two Nights Tour with World Cup victories in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Oberstdorf.[16] On 13 March 2025 in Oslo, she officially retained the overall World Cup title after going on a seven-match winning streak, becoming the third woman after Sara Takanashi and Maren Lundby to win more than one World Cup title.[17][18] The next day, Prevc set a women's world record at 236 metres (774 ft) during the training session at the ski flying hill in Vikersund.[19] At the 2024–25 World Cup season finale in Lahti, she broke several records. In the final match of the season, Prevc won by a record points margin over the runner-up, after having a 51.4-point lead over second-place finisher Selina Freitag. She also set the record for the most points scored in a women's World Cup season with 1,933, surpassing the 1,909 points set by Lundby in the 2018–19 season. Additionally, she finished the season with ten consecutive World Cup victories, tying Takanashi's record set in 2015–16. She also tied another record held by Takanashi for the most World Cup victories in a single season, with fifteen.[20][21]

At the 2025 Nordic World Ski Championships in Trondheim, Prevc became world champion in both women's individual events (normal hill and large hill), becoming the first woman to win two individual gold medals at the same championship.[22][23] In addition, she also won a silver medal in the mixed team event together with Klinec, Anže Lanišek and her brother Domen Prevc.[24]

Personal life

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Prevc was born in Kranj to Božidar and Julijana Prevc; the family has since been living in the village of Dolenja Vas. She has three brothers and a sister.[25][26] All three of her brothers, Peter, Cene and Domen, are also ski jumpers.[25][27] Her father, who owns a furniture business, is an international ski jumping referee.[28]

Major tournament results

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FIS Nordic Junior World Ski Championships

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Year Normal hill Team NH Mixed team
Finland Lahti 2021 11 3 —
Poland Zakopane 2022 1 1 2
Canada Whistler 2023 2 2 1

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships

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Year Normal hill Large hill Team NH Mixed team
Slovenia Planica 2023 17 40 4 —
Norway Trondheim 2025 1 1 4 2

World Cup

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Standings

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Season Position Points
2021–22 22 199
2022–23 19 366
2023–24 1 1,454
2024–25 1 1,933

Individual wins

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No. Season Date Location Hill Hill size
1 2023–24 16 December 2023   Switzerland Engelberg Gross-Titlis-Schanze Large HS140
2 30 December 2023   Germany Garmisch-Partenkirchen Große Olympiaschanze Large HS142
3 3 January 2024   Austria Villach Villacher Alpenarena Normal HS98
4 4 January 2024   Austria Villach Villacher Alpenarena Normal HS98
5 19 January 2024   Japan Zaō Yamagata Normal HS102
6 28 January 2024   Slovenia Ljubno Savina Normal HS94
7 13 March 2024   Norway Trondheim Granåsen Large HS138
8 2024–25 23 November 2024   Norway Lillehammer Lysgårdsbakken Large HS140
9 21 December 2024   Switzerland Engelberg Gross-Titlis-Schanze Large HS140
10 31 December 2024   Germany Garmisch-Partenkirchen Große Olympiaschanze Large HS142
11 1 January 2025   Germany Oberstdorf Schattenbergschanze Large HS137
12 24 January 2025   Japan Zaō Yamagata Normal HS102
13 7 February 2025   United States Lake Placid MacKenzie Intervale Large HS128
14 8 February 2025   United States Lake Placid MacKenzie Intervale Large HS128
15 15 February 2025   Slovenia Ljubno Savina Normal HS94
16 16 February 2025   Slovenia Ljubno Savina Normal HS94
17 22 February 2025   Austria Hinzenbach Aigner-Schanze Normal HS90
18 23 February 2025   Austria Hinzenbach Aigner-Schanze Normal HS90
19 13 March 2025   Norway Oslo Holmenkollbakken Large HS134
20 15 March 2025   Norway Vikersund Vikersundbakken Flying HS240
21 20 March 2025   Finland Lahti Salpausselkä Large HS130
22 21 March 2025   Finland Lahti Salpausselkä Large HS130
23 2025–26 30 November 2025   Sweden Falun Lugnet Large HS132
24 5 December 2025   Poland Wisła Malinka Large HS134
25 13 December 2025   Germany Klingenthal Vogtland Arena Large HS140
26 21 December 2025   Switzerland Engelberg Gross-Titlis-Schanze Large HS140

Individual starts

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Key
1 Winner
2 Runner-up
3 Third place
— Did not compete
q Failed to qualify
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 32 33
2021–22 Nizhny Tagil Nizhny Tagil Lillehammer Lillehammer Klingenthal Klingenthal Ramsau am Dachstein Ljubno ob Savinji Ljubno ob Savinji Willingen Willingen Hinzenbach Hinzenbach Lillehammer Lillehammer Oslo Oslo Oberhof Oberhof
23 38 11 25 25 26 — 11 7 11 13 — — — — — — 11 12
2022–23 Wisła Wisła Lillehammer Lillehammer Titisee-Neustadt Villach Villach Ljubno ob Savinji Ljubno ob Savinji Error creating thumbnail: Error creating thumbnail: Error creating thumbnail: Error creating thumbnail: Hinterzarten Hinterzarten Willingen Willingen Hinzenbach Hinzenbach Error creating thumbnail: Error creating thumbnail: Oslo Oslo Lillehammer Lillehammer Lahti
25 28 7 32 28 16 12 26 32 24 q 17 8 — — — — 3 5 13 7 13 23 22 24 14
2023–24 Lillehammer Lillehammer Engelberg Engelberg Garmisch-Partenkirchen Oberstdorf Villach Villach Error creating thumbnail: Error creating thumbnail: Error creating thumbnail: Ljubno ob Savinji Ljubno ob Savinji Willingen Willingen Hinzenbach Hinzenbach Lahti Oslo Oslo Trondheim Trondheim Vikersund Planica
10 17 7 1 1 5 1 1 10 10 1 2 1 15 2 4 2 10 6 2 5 1 11 3
2024–25 Lillehammer Lillehammer Zhangjiakou Zhangjiakou Engelberg Garmisch-Partenkirchen Oberstdorf Villach Villach Error creating thumbnail: Error creating thumbnail: Error creating thumbnail: Error creating thumbnail: Willingen Lake Placid, New York Lake Placid, New York Ljubno ob Savinji Ljubno ob Savinji Hinzenbach Hinzenbach Oslo Vikersund Lahti Lahti
1 11 3 5 1 1 1 2 3 11 6 1 3 6 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
2025–26 Lillehammer Lillehammer Falun Falun Wisła Wisła Klingenthal Klingenthal Engelberg Engelberg Garmisch-Partenkirchen Oberstdorf Villach Villach Ljubno ob Savinji Ljubno ob Savinji Zhangjiakou Zhangjiakou Error creating thumbnail: Error creating thumbnail: Error creating thumbnail: Error creating thumbnail: Willingen Willingen Hinzenbach Hinzenbach Lahti Lahti Oslo Oslo Vikersund Vikersund Planica
15 3 2 1 q[a] 1 2 1 2 1
Notes
  1. ^ Disqualified in the qualifiers

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