Peter Prevc

Peter Prevc
Prevc with his first World Cup overall crystal globe trophy in Planica, 2016
Country	Slovenia
Born	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	49
Team podiums	16
Yellow bibs	33
Indiv. starts	167
Team starts	33
Overall titles	1 (2016)
Four Hills titles	1 (2016)
Ski Flying titles	3 (2014, 2015, 2016)
Medal record Men's ski jumping Olympic Games 2014 Sochi Individual NH 2014 Sochi Individual LH FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 Val di Flemme 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 20 March 2016.

Peter Prevc (Slovene: [péːtər préːút͡s]; born 20 September 1992) is a Slovenian ski jumper and one of the most successful contemporary athletes in the sport. He is the winner of the 2016 Ski Jumping World Cup, having finished 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); 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 up 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 and will be eligible for Athlete of the Year, an award to be voted at the end of the year.^[6] For the month of March 2016, he defeated Chen Aisen (diving), Trayvon Bromell (track and field), Buddy Hield (basketball), Jaromír Jágr (ice hockey) and Lee McCoy (golf).^[7][8]

Professional career

Early career

Together with his friends Prevc started ski jumping when he was nine years old. He took his first jumps with regular skis at the Bregarca K25 hill, which is still standing near his home in the Dolenja Vas village.^[9] Here is a rare VHS home video footage of his first ski jumping steps at his home hill Bregarca in December 2001.^[10] When he was ten years old his father signed him up to »SK Triglav Kranj« ski jumping club.^[11] His father is international judge for ski jumps and two of his younger brothers and a sister are good ski jumpers, too.

World Cup debut

Prevc made his World Cup debut in the 2010 season, with finishing 22nd in Lillehammer, Norway, on 5 December 2009. That season, he finished at 35th place in the overall standings. He also represented Slovenia at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, where he finished 7th in the individual normal hill, 8th in the team large hill, and 16th in the individual large hill events.

2010/11 season

In 2011 Prevc first participated at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo where he took a bronze medal at the team large hill event with the Slovenian teammates. Prevc made his ski flying debut in Planica where he reached his first world cup podium. He took 3rd place in ski flying team event for Slovenia. He finished 24th in overall. He was a member of the Slovenian Sports Team of the Year, together with his teammates Robert Kranjec, Jernej Damjan and Jurij Tepeš as voted by the Association of Slovene sports journalists.

2012 and 2013 seasons

In Hinzenbach, 2015

In 2012 he took first ever World Cup team victory for Slovenia at ski flying team event in Oberstdorf. He jumped 225.5 meters (which would equal the Harri Olli's hill record) on this team event but he landed hard and fell and injured his shoulder. He finished the season and missed out SFWC 2012 in Vikersund.

In 2013 he won three World Cup team events in Zakopane, Willingen and Planica. His set his personal best jump at 230 metres in Vikersund. At FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in Val di Fiemme he took silver medal at individual large hill event^[12] and bronze medal at individual normal hill event.^[13] Prevc reached his first World Cup individual podium in Planica where he was second at the flying hill.

2013/14 season

In 2014 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 on the top of the World Cup overall standings for the first time in his career,^[14] where he remained for the next couple of events. At the end of the season he finished 2nd in the overall rankings. 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 at that time.

Prevc won silver medal at 2014 Winter Olympics at the normal hill event and bronze medal at large hill event. At the FIS Ski Flying World Championships 2014 he took bronze after the last two jumps were cancelled.

2014/15 season

The 2014/15 season was very successful for Prevc. He won 3 events and added 11 more podiums in the World Cup. He was at the top of the standings for a while and at the end of the season, 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 higher number of victories during the season (9 for Freund and 3 for Prevc).^[15] Prevc defended the ski flying title. In addition, he won two team events and one third place with the Slovenian team.

On 14 February 2015, Prevc set a ski flying world record in Vikersund with a 250 m (820 ft) jump. This was beaten the following day with a 251.5 metres (825 ft) jump by Anders Fannemel.^[16] 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 the hill record with 248.5 m.^[17] At the 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 2016 season by winning 15 out of 29 World Cup events, the Four Hills Tournament, and the overall and ski flying titles. The victory in Engelberg on 19 December was special, since he and his younger brother Domen Prevc both finished on the podium as the first pair of brothers in World Cup history,^[18] a feat they repeated a few weeks later in Sapporo. With three wins and one third place, Prevc won the prestigious 2016 Four Hills Tournament with all-time highest score of 1139.4 points (winning 7 of 8 rounds; also a record) and the first Slovenian ski jumper to do so since Primož Peterka in the 1996/97 season.^[19]

On 16 January in Kulm Prevc became 2016 ski flying world champion after three rounds while fourth round was cancelled because of strong wind. He set two hill records.

On 14 February in Vikersund Prevc slided the ground with his back, but remained on his feet and won the event,^[20] becoming the first ski jumper to do so with falling or touching the ground upon landing after Andreas Goldberger in 1995^[21] and Martin Schmitt in 1999.^[22]

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 in a single season (2303, the previous record being 2083 of Gregor Schlierenzauer from the 2008/09 season) and also recorded the highest number of victories and podium finishes in a season (15 victories and 22 podiums in total, the previous records being 13 victories and 20 podiums from Schlierenzauer's 2008/09 season).^[23] The point difference between the first and the second, 813 points, was also a record. He also broke the record of the best average of points per event (79.4 points per event) and he won the highest number of points in the Four Hills Tournament ever (1139.4 points).

By winning the ski flying title, Prevc became the first ski jumper to win the title for three years in a row.

World Cup

Standings

Season	Overall	SF	4H	NT
2009/10	35	–	41	10
2010/11	24	36	13	N/A
2011/12	15	18	20	N/A
2012/13	7	5	8	N/A
2013/14			4	N/A
2014/15				N/A
2015/16				N/A

Wins

No.	Season	Date	Location	Hill	Size
1	2013/14	12 January 2014	Tauplitz/Bad Mitterndorf	Kulm HS 200	FH
2		25 January 2014	Sapporo	Ōkurayama HS 134 (night)	LH
3		23 March 2014	Planica	Bloudkova velikanka HS 139	LH
4	2014/15	24 January 2015	Sapporo	Ōkurayama HS 134 (night)	LH
5		14 February 2015	Vikersund	Vikersundbakken HS 225 (night)	FH
6		20 March 2015	Planica	Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS 225	FH
7	2015/16	13 December 2015	Nizhny Tagil	Tramplin Stork HS 134 (night)	LH
8		19 December 2015	Engelberg	Gross-Titlis-Schanze HS 137	LH
9		20 December 2015	Engelberg	Gross-Titlis-Schanze HS 137	LH
10		1 January 2016	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Große Olympiaschanze HS 140	LH
11		3 January 2016	Innsbruck	Bergiselschanze HS 130	LH
12		6 January 2016	Bischofshofen	Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze HS 140 (night)	LH
13		10 January 2016	Willingen	Mühlenkopfschanze HS 145	LH
14		30 January 2016	Sapporo	Ōkurayama HS 134 (night)	LH
15		10 February 2016	Trondheim	Granåsen HS 140 (night)	LH
16		13 February 2016	Vikersund	Vikersundbakken HS 225 (night)	FH
17		14 February 2016	Vikersund	Vikersundbakken HS 225	FH
18		27 February 2016	Almaty	Sunkar HS 140 (night)	LH
19		28 February 2016	Almaty	Sunkar HS 140 (night)	LH
20		17 March 2016	Planica	Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS 225	FH
21		20 March 2016	Planica	Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS 225	FH

Individual starts (167)

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

Personal life

Prevc was born in Kranj but has since been living in a small village Dolenja Vas. He comes from a large family and is the oldest of five children: his two younger brothers, Domen and Cene Prevc, are also ski jumpers. Nika, one of his two younger sisters, is also a ski jumper.^[24] He attended the first half of elementary school education in Selca and the second half in Železniki. He continued his education at economy gymnasium in Kranj where he got his high school diploma.

Outside of ski jumping Prevc enjoys following football and is a declared supporter of Slovenian football club NK Maribor.^[25][26]

References

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. "March Athlete of the Month Ballot". United States Sports Academy. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
8. "Voting Open for Academy Athlete of the Month for March". United States Sports Academy. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
9. "Gospod inženir, skakalnica je narejena" [Mr. engineer, hill is ready] (in Slovenian). Delo. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
10. "First ski jumps of Peter Prevc in December 2001". YouTube. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
11. "Peter Prevc biography" (in Slovenian). gorenjci.si. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
12. "Individual large hill event at FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2013" (PDF). International Ski Federation. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
13. "Individual normal hill event at FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2013" (PDF). International Ski Federation. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
14. "Peter Prevc took a clear win in Sapporo". International Ski Federation. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
15. "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.
16. "Ski jump: watch Anders Fannemel set the new world record". The Telegraph. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
17. "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.
18. "Zgodovinsko: dvojna zmaga bratov Prevc" [First time in world cup history two brothers on podium] (in Slovenian). RTV Slovenia. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
19. "Slovenija navdušena: kralj Peter šampionsko dokončal delo" [Slovenia in trans: King Peter finished the job as super champion] (in Slovenian). RTV Slovenia. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
20. "Peter Prevc 249 m in Vikersund". youtube. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
21. "Andreas Goldberger 196 m in Oberstdorf". youtube. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
22. "Martin Schmitt 219 m in Oberstdorf". youtube. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
23. "Prevc: taka sezona se bo težko še kdaj ponovila" [Prevc: it will be very hard to repeat this season ever again] (in Slovenian). RTV Slovenia. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
24. "Nika Prevc po stopinjah svojih bratov" [Nika Prevc is following her brothers footsteps] (in Slovenian). Ekipa. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
25. "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.
26. "Peter Prevc: Samo za Olimpijo ne" [Peter Prevc: Only for Olimpija no]. Ekipa. Retrieved 8 October 2015.

External links

• Peter Prevc at the International Ski Federation