Robert Kranjec

Robert Kranjec (born 16 July 1981) is a Slovenian former ski jumper.

Robert Kranjec
Country Slovenia
Born (1981-07-16) 16 July 1981
Ljubljana, SR Slovenia,
SFR Yugoslavia
Height175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Personal best244 m (801 ft)
Vikersund, 25 February 2012
World Cup career
Seasons1998
2000–2016
2018–2019
Individual wins7
Team wins8
Indiv. podiums27
Team podiums16
Indiv. starts325
Team starts51
Ski Flying titles2 (2010, 2012)
Medal record
Men's ski jumping
Olympic Games
2002 Salt Lake City Team LH
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
2011 OsloTeam LH
Men's ski flying
FIS Ski Flying World Championships
2012 VikersundIndividual
2012 VikersundTeam

Career

He won a bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City in the Team Large Hill event. He belongs to the world's best active ski flying athletes. On 25 February 2012, he won the FIS Ski Flying World Championships 2012 and thus became the Slovenia's third World Champion in ski jumping and the first in ski flying. He also set a new national record.[1]

Kranjec was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia.[2] His first victory in a World Cup competition was at Kuusamo, Finland in 2005. The following years he could not reach any top results except for ski flying competitions. In 2010 he celebrated his second World Cup victory at Tauplitz, Austria. After two more successful ski flying competitions at Tauplitz and Oberstdorf, in which he achieved the second place each time, he won the ski flying World Cup in the 2009–10 season.

In the 2011–12 season, Kranjec became the World Champion in ski flying and won the bronze medal in team competition at the FIS Ski Flying World Championships 2012. In the same season, Kranjec won his second ski flying World Cup title.[3]

He retired from ski jumping in March 2019.[4]

World Cup

Standings
Season Overall 4H SF RA W5 P7 NT JP
1997/98 ———N/AN/AN/A——
1999/00 ———N/AN/AN/A——
2000/01 ———N/AN/AN/A—N/A
2001/02 1623N/AN/AN/AN/A7N/A
2002/03 1725N/AN/AN/AN/A15N/A
2003/04 4647N/AN/AN/AN/A36N/A
2004/05 4558N/AN/AN/AN/A32N/A
2005/06 1628N/AN/AN/AN/A—N/A
2006/07 2737N/AN/AN/AN/A35N/A
2007/08 2528N/AN/AN/AN/A30N/A
2008/09 23317N/AN/AN/A12N/A
2009/10 1014N/AN/AN/A12N/A
2010/11 18218N/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
2011/12 914N/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
2012/13 621N/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
2013/14 11289N/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
2014/15 262921N/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
2015/16 1342N/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
2017/18 49—27——20N/AN/A
2018/19 —————60N/AN/A

Wins
No. Season Date Location Hill Size
1 2005/0626 November 2005   KuusamoRukatunturi HS142 (night)LH
2 2009/109 January 2010   Tauplitz/Bad MitterndorfKulm HS200FH
3 2011/1215 January 2012   Tauplitz/Bad MitterndorfKulm HS200FH
4 16 March 2012   PlanicaLetalnica bratov Gorišek HS215FH
5 2012/1327 January 2013   VikersundVikersundbakken HS225FH
6 2015/1612 February 2016   VikersundVikersundbakken HS225 (night)FH
7 18 March 2016   PlanicaLetalnica bratov Gorišek HS225FH

References
  1. "Kranjec svetovni prvak v smučarskih poletih" [Kranjec Is the World Champion in Ski Flying]. Delo.si (in Slovenian). 25 February 2012.
  2. "Dobitniki Bloudkovih priznanj za leto 2002" [Bloudek Award winner of 2002] (PDF). Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Slovenia (in Slovenian). 2002. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
  3. S. J.; Ž. K. (18 March 2012). "Kranjec s 100. slovenskimi stopničkami do malega globusa" [Kranjec with 100th podium finish for Slovenia to Crystal Globe] (in Slovenian). RTV Slovenija. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
  4. Lopatič, Jaka (20 March 2019). "Robert Kranjec se je odločil: Konec je! #video" (in Slovenian). Siol. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
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