Peter Prevc

Prevc was born in Kranj to Božidar and Julijana Prevc; the family has since been living in the village of Dolenja Vas. He has two brothers and two sisters and is the oldest of five children.^[6][7] Both his brothers, Domen and Cene, and one of his sisters, Nika, are also FIS Ski Jumping World Cup jumpers.^[6] His father owns a furniture business and is also an international ski jumping referee.^[8] When younger, he trained cross-country skiing and also tried ski jumping. His mother is a librarian.^[9]

Prevc attended the first half of his elementary school education in Selca, the second half in Železniki, and gymnasium in Kranj.^[10] At the age of nine, Prevc started training in ski jumping at the Bregarca K25 hill, located in Dolenja Vas.^[11] At the Junior World Ski Championships in February 2009, he finished 6th in the individual and 5th in the team event.^[12]

2009–10 to 2012–13: World Cup debut and early seasons

Prevc made his World Cup debut in the 2009–10 season, finishing 22nd in Lillehammer, Norway, on 5 December 2009. In January 2010, at the Junior World Championships, Prevc won silver at the individual and bronze at the team event.^[12]

In February 2010, he was a member of the Slovenian team 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, Prevc finished 8th in the team large hill event.^[13] He finished the World Cup season in the 35th place in the overall standings.^[12]

In the 2010–11 season, Prevc first participated at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo. Together with 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.^[14]

In March 2011, Prevc made his ski flying debut in Planica. In the sky flying team event, Prevc won his first World Cup podium, third place. In the overall standings, he finished the season in 24th place.^[12]

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 Kranjec, 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.^[15] He needed surgery which meant 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.^[12]

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^[16] and a bronze medal at the individual normal hill event.^[17]

At the season's last two events 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.^[12] At the end of the year, Prevc was voted the Slovenian Sportsman of the Year for the first time.^[14]

2013–14 and 2014–15: The runner-up

In the 2013–14 season, Prevc recorded his first individual World Cup win in Kulm. Prevc won the season's ski flying title with second place at the same venue since there were only two scheduled ski flying events. 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,^[18] where he remained for the next couple of events.

At the end of the season, he finished second 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.^[12]

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.^[13] At the FIS Ski Flying World Championships 2014, he took bronze after the last two out of four jumps were cancelled.^[12]

The 2014–15 season was very successful for Prevc, with three wins and eleven 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.^[3] 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.^[19] Prevc spent a couple of weeks at the top of the standings during the season. In the end, he had the same number of points as Severin Freund of Germany, but the overall title went to Freund because of the higher number of victories during the season (9 for Freund and 3 for Prevc).^[20] Prevc defended the ski flying title.^[12]

At the 2015 World Championships, Prevc finished fourth on the large hill, thirteenth on the normal hill, and sixth with the Slovenian team at the team event. Prevc took two third places at the 2014–15 Four Hills Tournament, which secured him a third place in the overall tournament standing.^[12]

2015–16: The record-breaking season

In the 2015–16 season, Prevc won 15 out of 29 World Cup events, the Four Hills Tournament, and the overall and ski flying titles.^[12]

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.^[21] 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.^[22]

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.^[23]

On 14 February in Vikersund, Prevc won the event despite sliding upon landing (he remained on his feet nevertheless), which rarely happens in ski jumping.^[24] 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 by 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).^[25][26] By winning the ski flying title, Prevc became the first ski jumper to win the title for three years in a row.^[27][28]

2016–17

At the first event of the 2016–17 season in Ruka, Finland, Prevc, who was leading after the first series, fell upon landing in the second series and finished third. His brother Domen scored his first World Cup victory on that occasion.^[29] Throughout December, Prevc was struggling with his jumps,^[30] fell again upon landing at the first event in Engelberg^[31] and did not reach the final round at the second event.^[31] After the Four Hill Tournament, where he finished 14th, Prevc skipped the events in Wisla.^[32] Following the break, his results started to improve again. Prevc was the best individual in the team event in Zakopane, where the Slovenian team finished third.^[33] The team event in Willingen saw, for the first time, all three Prevc brothers representing Slovenia; together with Tepeš, they finished fourth.^[34] On 11 February, he won his only event of the season in Sapporo; it was a double win with Maciej Kot.^[35] Prevc's best result at the World Championships was a fourth place in the mixed event. He collected five more top 10 World Cup finishes by the end of the season. He finished 9th in the overall and 5th both in the sky flying and in the inaugural Raw Air standings.^[12]

Winter Olympics

Year	Place	Individual		Team
		Normal	Large	Men	Mixed
2010	Vancouver	7	16	8	N/A
2014	Sochi			5	N/A
2018	Pyeongchang	12	10	5	N/A
2022	Beijing	4	10

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships

Year	Place	Individual		Team
		Normal	Large	Men	Mixed
2011	Oslo	17	25		6
2013	Val di Fiemme			6	8
2015	Falun	13	4	6	5
2017	Lahti	11	9	5	4
2019	Seefeld	24	16	6	4
2021	Oberstdorf	—	16	5	—
2023	Planica	did not participate

FIS Ski Flying World Championships

Year	Place	Individual	Team
2010	Planica	did not participate
2012	Vikersund
2014	Harrachov		N/A
2016	Bad Mitterndorf		4
2018	Oberstdorf	6
2020	Planica	—	4
2022	Vikersund	4
2024	Bad Mitterndorf	26

Standings

Season	Overall	4H	SF	RA	NT
2009–10	35	41	—	N/A	10
2010–11	24	13	36	N/A	N/A
2011–12	15	20	18	N/A	N/A
2012–13	7	8	5	N/A	N/A
2013–14		4		N/A	N/A
2014–15				N/A	N/A
2015–16				N/A	N/A
2016–17	9	14	5	5	N/A
2017–18	15	21	8	10	N/A
2018–19	29	46	25	12	N/A
2019–20	8	8	28	7	N/A
2020–21	23	9	15	N/A	N/A
2021–22	15	20	4	—	N/A
2022–23	25	19	49	—	N/A
2023–24	5	18			N/A
Source:[36]

Individual wins

No.	Season	Date	Location	Hill	Size
1	2013–14	12 January 2014	Tauplitz/Bad Mitterndorf	Kulm HS200	FH
2		25 January 2014	Sapporo	Ōkurayama HS134	LH
3		23 March 2014	Planica	Bloudkova velikanka HS139	LH
4	2014–15	24 January 2015	Sapporo	Ōkurayama HS134	LH
5		14 February 2015	Vikersund	Vikersundbakken HS225	FH
6		20 March 2015	Planica	Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS225	FH
7	2015–16	13 December 2015	Nizhny Tagil	Tramplin Stork HS134	LH
8		19 December 2015	Engelberg	Gross-Titlis-Schanze HS137	LH
9		20 December 2015	Engelberg	Gross-Titlis-Schanze HS137	LH
10		1 January 2016	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Große Olympiaschanze HS140	LH
11		3 January 2016	Innsbruck	Bergiselschanze HS130	LH
12		6 January 2016	Bischofshofen	Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze HS140	LH
13		10 January 2016	Willingen	Mühlenkopfschanze HS145	LH
14		30 January 2016	Sapporo	Ōkurayama HS134	LH
15		10 February 2016	Trondheim	Granåsen HS140	LH
16		13 February 2016	Vikersund	Vikersundbakken HS225	FH
17		14 February 2016	Vikersund	Vikersundbakken HS225	FH
18		27 February 2016	Almaty	Sunkar HS140	LH
19		28 February 2016	Almaty	Sunkar HS140	LH
20		17 March 2016	Planica	Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS225	FH
21		20 March 2016	Planica	Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS225	FH
22	2016–17	11 February 2017	Sapporo	Ōkurayama HS137	LH
23	2019–20	9 March 2020	Lillehammer	Lysgårdsbakken HS140	LH
24	2023–24	22 March 2024	Planica	Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS240	FH
Source:[37]

Individual starts

winner (1); second (2); third (3); did not compete (–); failed to qualify (q)

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	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																																	1,312
	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																																	1,729
	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																																	2,303
	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																																	716
	3	7	22	30	9	26	33	10	11	19	23	–	–	13	9	6	4	1	6	13	4	16	7	6	10	6
2017–18																																	416
	20	23	13	40	15	16	14	41	8	23	8	6	3	20	20	–	46	7	8	14	15	8
2018–19																																	179
	–	–	–	–	–	35	16	18	q	–	–	40	53	–	–	–	–	–	–	q	20	40	3	26	12	16	10	19
2019–20																																	789
	15	28	8	8	8	12	2	21	12	9	5	17	7	22	18	10	7	4	8	33	20	4	16	18	15	1	5
2020–21																																	230
	30	29	18	36	13	14	33	17	13	11	12	21	13	31	12	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	19	11	23
2021–22																																	460
	–	–	11	6	21	25	41	25	29	19	38	28	21	16	13	12	8	16	20	8	25	–	–	–	8	12	2	3
2022–23																																	274
	17	16	13	15	33	14	26	13	22	39	14	7	17	15	13	6	38	29	31	20	31	46	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
2023–24																																	1,071
	13	6	19	10	12	11	16	15	9	9	31	9	5	20	20	13	–	–	9	8	2	2	14	2	8	11	2	5	8	4	1	6
Source:[38]

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