Daniela Iraschko-Stolz
Austrian ski jumper (born 1983)
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Daniela Iraschko-Stolz (née Iraschko; born 21 November 1983) is an Austrian former ski jumper and footballer.
Iraschko-Stolz in 2014 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 21 November 1983 Eisenerz, Austria |
| Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) |
| Sport | |
| Country | Austria |
| Sport | Skiing |
| Club | WSV Eisenerz |
| World Cup career | |
| Seasons | 2012–present |
| Indiv. starts | 136 |
| Indiv. podiums | 53 |
| Indiv. wins | 16 |
| Team starts | 8 |
| Team podiums | 7 |
| Team wins | 3 |
| Overall titles | 1 (2015) |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal bests | 200 m (660 ft) (656 ft) Kulm, 29 January 2003 |
Medal record | |
| Updated on 13 March 2022 | |
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 21 November 1983 | ||
| Place of birth | Eisenerz, Austria | ||
| Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||
| Position(s) | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1993–2003 | WSV Eisenerz | ||
| 2003–2006 | Innsbrucker AC | ||
| 2006–2017 | Wacker Innsbruck | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 17 December 2022 | |||
She is one of the ski jumping's most successful female athletes, having won the 2014/15 women's World Cup season, and has the third most individual female World Cup wins – 12 – as of March 2017. From 2003 to 2023 she held the women's ski flying world record of 200 m (660 ft), and was the first woman to reach 200 m.[1] She is considered a pioneer in the discipline of women's ski jumping having made her first jump at the age of 12 in the year 1995.[2]
In football, she has played at the highest levels of the domestic women's game.
Career
Ski jumping
Iraschko-Stolz has competed in ski jumping since 2000. She is best known for her three individual victories at the Holmenkollen Ski Festival (2000, 2001, 2003). In 2009–10 she won the women's Continental Cup.[3] She won the gold medal at the 2007 Winter Universiade in Turin, gold at the 2011 Ski Jumping World Championships in Holmenkollen, and silver at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. She has nine individual wins at the World Cup level and finished second overall in the first-ever women's World Cup season in 2011/12.
On 29 January 2003, Iraschko-Stolz became the first woman to fly over 200 metres during practice for a World Cup event on the ski flying hill in Kulm,[4] a women's world record which stood until 2023.[citation needed]
Due to being injured, she was unable to compete in the Nordic World Championships 2013.
In 2014, she won a silver medal in the normal hill competition at the Winter Olympics in Sochi.[5]
At the Nordic World Ski Championship 2015 in Falun, she won a bronze medal in the normal hill competition.[6] At the Nordic World Ski Championship 2017 in Lahti, she won together with Michael Hayböck, Jacqueline Seifriedsberger, and Stefan Kraft the silver medal in the mixed team competition.
She last competed in the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games & retired from the sport in 2023 at the age of 39.[2]
Football
Iraschko started playing association football at a young age[7] and started her career at WSV Eisenerz in 1993. In 2003 she moved to the Bundesliga side Innsbrucker AC, and after the dissolution of the women's team in 2006 she moved to Wacker Innsbruck.[8][9] In 2008, 2009 and 2010 she became Austrian runner-up with the team behind the champions SV Neulengbach, in 2009 and 2012 she was in the Austrian Cup final.[10]
Her last match was in 2016 where she played as a striker for FC Wacker (FC Wacker Innsbruck).[citation needed]
Honours and statistics
Ski Jumping World Cup
Standings
Wins
| No. | Season | Date | Location | Hill | Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2011/12 | 4 February 2012 |  Hinzenbach | Aigner-Schanze HS94 | NH |
| 2 | 5 February 2012 | Hinzenbach | Aigner-Schanze HS94 | NH | |
| 3 | 2012/13 | 9 December 2012 |  Sochi | RusSki Gorki HS106 | NH |
| 4 | 2013/14 | 25 January 2012 |  Planica | Normal hill HS104 | NH |
| 5 | 26 January 2012 | Planica | Normal hill HS104 | NH | |
| 6 | 2014/15 | 24 January 2015 |  Oberstdorf | Schattenbergschanze HS106 | NH |
| 7 | 25 January 2015 | Oberstdorf | Schattenbergschanze HS106 | NH | |
| 8 | 31 January 2015 | Hinzenbach | Aigner-Schanze HS94 | NH | |
| 9 | 7 February 2015 |  Râșnov | Trambulina Valea Cărbunării HS100 | NH | |
| 10 | 15 February 2015 | Ljubno | Savina Ski Jumping Center HS95 | NH | |
| 11 | 2015/16 | 12 December 2015 | Nizhny Tagil | Tramplin Stork HS97 | NH |
| 12 | 14 February 2016 | Ljubno | Savina Ski Jumping Center HS95 | NH | |
| 13 | 2017/18 | 28 January 2018 | Ljubno | Savina Ski Jumping Center HS94 | NH |
| 14 | 2018/19 | 12 January 2019 |  Sapporo | Ōkurayama HS137 | LH |
| 15 | 18 January 2019 | Zaō | Yamagata HS102 | NH | |
| 16 | 10 March 2019 |  Oslo | Holmenkollbakken HS134 | LH |
Austrian football
With Wacker Innsbruck:
- 2x Austrian Cup finalist: 2009, 2012
- 3x Austrian Bundesliga runner-up: 2008, 2009, 2010
Personal life
She married her partner in 2013.[11]
