Stefan Kraft

Stefan Kraft
Stefan Kraft
	Kraft in 2018
Country	Austria
Born	13 May 1993; Schwarzach im Pongau,; Austria
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Ski club	SV Schwarzach
Personal best	253.5 m (832 ft) ; Vikersund, 18 March 2017
World Cup career
Seasons	2012–present
Individual wins	21
Team wins	5
Indiv. podiums	71
Team podiums	25
Indiv. starts	196
Team starts	43
Overall titles	2 (2017, 2020)
Four Hills titles	1 (2015)
Ski Flying titles	2 (2017, 2020)
Raw Air titles	1 (2017)
Men's ski jumping
World Championships
Men's ski flying
World Championships
	Updated on 12 March 2020.

Stefan Kraft (born 13 May 1993) is an Austrian ski jumper. He is one of the most successful contemporary athletes in ski jumping, having won the Ski Jumping World Cup and Ski Flying World Cup overall titles twice each, the Four Hills Tournament and Raw Air Tournament once each, and two individual gold medals at the World Championships. Since March 2017, he has held the ski flying world record of 253.5 metres (832 ft).

Career

Kraft's debut in FIS Ski Jumping World Cup took place in January 2012 in Bischofshofen. He has two world cup wins and won 2014/15 Four Hills Tournament overall.[1] His personal best and world record is 253.5 meters set in Vikersund in 2017, only half a meter away from Dimitry Vassiliev's 254 meter jump, the longest to date. At FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2015 in Falun he won the silver medal from Men's team large hill event and bronze from Individual normal hill event.

World Cup results

Kraft in Klingenthal 2017.

Kraft in Zakopane 2013.

Season titles

4 titles – (2 Overall, 2 Ski flying)

Season
	Discipline
2016/17	Overall
	Ski flying
2019/20	Overall
	Ski flying

Season standings

Season				Tour Standings
Season	Overall	4H	SF	RA	W5	T5	P7
2011/12	—	67	—	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
2012/13	31	40	32	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
2013/14	10	27	29	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
2014/15			7	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
2015/16	6	5	7	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
2016/17		6			N/A	N/A	N/A
2017/18	4	20	4	4	—	N/A	4
2018/19		17	8		7	N/A	12
2019/20		5		8		4	N/A

Wins

No.	Season	Date	Location	Hill	Size
1	2014/15	29 December 2014	Oberstdorf	Schattenbergschanze HS137 (night)	LH
2		15 January 2015	Wisła	Malinka HS134 (night)	LH
3		8 March 2015	Lahti	Salpausselkä HS130	LH
4	2015/16	24 January 2016	Zakopane	Wielka Krokiew HS134 (night)	LH
5	2016/17	30 December 2016	Oberstdorf	Schattenbergschanze HS137 (night)	LH
6		4 February 2017	Oberstdorf	Heini-Klopfer-Skiflugschanze HS225 (night)	FH
7		5 February 2017	Oberstdorf	Heini-Klopfer-Skiflugschanze HS225	FH
8		15 February 2017	Pyeongchang	Alpensia Ski Jumping Centre HS140 (night)	LH
9		12 March 2017	Oslo	Holmenkollbakken HS134	LH
10		16 March 2017	Trondheim	Granåsen HS140 (night)	LH
11		24 March 2017	Planica	Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS225	FH
12		26 March 2017	Planica	Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS225	FH
13	2018/19	20 January 2019	Zakopane	Wielka Krokiew HS140 (night)	LH
14		26 January 2019	Sapporo	Ōkurayama HS137 (night)	LH
15		27 January 2019	Sapporo	Ōkurayama HS137	LH
16		12 March 2019	Lillehammer	Lysgårdsbakken HS140 (night)	LH
17	2019/20	8 December 2019	Nizhny Tagil	Tramplin Stork HS134 (night)	LH
18		2 February 2020	Sapporo	Ōkurayama HS137	LH
19		16 February 2020	Tauplitz	Kulm HS235	FH
20		22 February 2020	Râșnov	Râșnov Ski Jump HS97	NH
21		28 February 2020	Lahti	Salpausselkä HS130 (night)	LH

Individual starts (196)


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

2011/12																																0
2011/12	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	q	54	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–						0

2012/13																																202
2012/13	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	23	3	28	11	–	–	–	–	–	–	19	11	38	6	14	42	27	22					202

2013/14																																539
2013/14	14	q	22	25	25	19	12	13	50	30	12	20	33	21	21	22	24	16	15	7	5	2	4	9	11	8	13	9				539

2014/15																																1578
2014/15	2	13	13	17	11	4	3	6	9	1	6	2	3	2	1	2	2	4	7	6	2	5	–	–	1	3	9	10	5	3	4	1578

2015/16																																1006
2015/16	6	4	14	22	27	7	8	7	9	11	4	4	1	–	–	2	5	6	2	11	8	3	11	4	21	22	10	12	10			1006

2016/17																																1665
2016/17	9	4	3	3	8	6	3	1	3	18	25	2	4	–	2	1	1	3	3	1	2	1	1	5	1	1						1665

2017/18																																881
2017/18	3	13	4	3	12	13	3	4	31	24	4	9	15	–	–	3	2	8	2	5	3	2										881

2018/19																																1349
2018/19	21	26	10	5	20	8	12	3	49	2	3	4	2	1	1	1	6	3	7	4	11	10	2	1	3	3	14	17				1349

2019/20																																1659
2019/20	21	4	7	1	2	2	18	4	13	4	4	2	2	2	11	2	2	1	4	3	1	3	1	1	2	8	17					1659

Podiums

	Medals			Total
Season	Podiums

2011/12	-	-	-	-
2012/13	-	-	1	1
2013/14	-	1	-	1
2014/15	3	6	4	13
2015/16	1	2	1	4
2016/17	8	3	6	17
2017/18	0	3	5	8
2018/19	4	3	5	12
2019/20	5	8	2	15
Total	21	26	24	71

Ski jumping world record

Current world record longest standing ski jump in the world.

Date	Hill	Location	Metres	Feet
18 March 2017	Vikersundbakken HS225	Vikersund, Norway	253.5	832

Olympic results

Year
Year	Age	Normal hill	Large hill	Team
2018 Pyeongchang	24	13	18	4

World Championships

Year
Year	Normal Hill	Large Hill	Team (men)	Team (mixed)
2013 Val di Fiemme	33	8	–	–
2015 Falun	3	5	2	4
2017 Lahti	1	1	3	2
2019 Seefeld	3	6	2	2

References

"Stefan Kraft wins 4-Hills, Michael Hayboeck takes win in Bischofshofen" (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. Retrieved 7 January 2015.

External links

Stefan Kraft at the International Ski Federation

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[1] "Stefan Kraft wins 4-Hills, Michael Hayboeck takes win in Bischofshofen" (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. Retrieved 7 January 2015.