Nika Prevc
Slovenian ski jumper (born 2005)
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Nika Prevc (born 15 March 2005) is a Slovenian ski jumper.[2] She is one of the most successful women's ski jumpers of all time with three overall FIS Ski Jumping World Cup titles, two individual gold medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, and three medals (one gold) at the Winter Olympics. Prevc has also won 40 individual World Cup events, the second-most behind only Sara Takanashi. In addition, she holds the record for most points won in a women's World Cup season (2,676), the record for most wins in a single World Cup season (18), and the joint record for most consecutive wins in a single World Cup season (10).
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| Born | 15 March 2005[1] Kranj, Slovenia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Ski jumping | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | SK Triglav Kranj | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Seasons | 2022–present | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Indiv. starts | 113 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Indiv. podiums | 60 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Indiv. wins | 40 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team starts | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team podiums | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team wins | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Overall titles | 3 (2024, 2025, 2026) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Raw Air titles | 1 (2025) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 242.5 m (796 ft)  Planica, 27 March 2026 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Prevc is the current women's world record holder with 242.5 metres (796 ft), set in Planica on 27 March 2026.[3]
Career
Early career
Prevc made her official ski jumping debut on 5 August 2018, at the age of 13, at the FIS Ski Jumping Alpen Cup competition in Klingenthal. She finished in 29th place out of 55 competitors.[4] Almost exactly a year later, on 4 August 2019, she achieved her first Alpen Cup victory at the same venue.[5]
In the 2020–21 Alpen Cup season, Prevc became the overall winner of the competition with 597 points out of 8 events; she also finished outside the top three only twice.[6] In the same season, she also made her debut in the FIS Ski Jumping Continental Cup, where she finished seventh overall.[7]
World Cup debut, first podium and youth world champion (2021–2023)
Prevc made her debut in the top-tier FIS Ski Jumping World Cup in November 2021, aged 16, in Nizhny Tagil.[8] She finished her inaugural match in 23rd place, which was enough for her first World Cup points.[9]
Prevc won several gold medals at junior level in 2022. She won the individual gold at the 2022 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival, in addition to gold in the mixed team event.[10] Prevc also became the junior world champion at the 2022 Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in Zakopane, where she also won gold in the women's team event and a silver medal in the mixed team event with the Slovenia national team.[11]
In February 2023, she finished on the World Cup podium for the first time after finishing third in Hinzenbach.[12]
World Cup overall titles, records and Olympic debut (2023–present)
The 2023–24 season marked a breakthrough in her career. On 16 December 2023 in Engelberg, Prevc achieved her first individual World Cup victory after finishing above her countrywoman Ema Klinec.[13] She then clinched the overall ranking of the inaugural 'Two Nights Tour' with a victory in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and a fifth-place finish in Oberstdorf,[14] and took the lead in the overall World Cup standings after a victory in Villach in January 2024.[15] Prevc finished the season in first place with 1,454 points, winning 7 out of 24 events. She became the fourth Slovenian ski jumper to win the overall World Cup title after Primož Peterka, her brother Peter Prevc, and Nika Križnar.[16]
In the 2024–25 season, Prevc again won the overall ranking of the Two Nights Tour with World Cup victories in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Oberstdorf.[17] On 13 March 2025 in Oslo, she officially retained the overall World Cup title after going on a seven-match winning streak, becoming the third woman after Sara Takanashi and Maren Lundby to win more than one World Cup title.[18][19] The next day, Prevc set a women's world record at 236 metres (774 ft) during the training session at the ski flying hill in Vikersund.[20] At the 2024–25 World Cup season finale in Lahti, she broke several records. In the final match of the season, Prevc won by a record points margin over the runner-up, after having a 51.4-point lead over second-place finisher Selina Freitag. She also set the record for the most points scored in a women's World Cup season with 1,933, surpassing the 1,909 points set by Lundby in the 2018–19 season. Additionally, she finished the season with ten consecutive World Cup victories, tying Takanashi's record set in 2015–16. She also tied another record held by Takanashi for the most World Cup victories in a single season, with fifteen.[21][22]
In the same season, Prevc became world champion in both women's individual events (normal hill and large hill) at the 2025 Nordic World Ski Championships in Trondheim, therefore becoming the first woman to win two individual gold medals at the same championship.[23][24] In addition, she also won a silver medal in the mixed team event together with Klinec, Anže Lanišek and her brother Domen Prevc.[25]
Prevc made her Winter Olympics debut in 2026, serving as a flag bearer for Slovenia with her brother Domen at the opening ceremony.[26][27] After winning the silver medal in the women's normal hill event, she joined two of her brothers (Peter and Cene) as Olympic medallists in ski jumping.[28] A few days later, she won gold with the Slovenian team in the mixed team competition, along with her brother Domen, Lanišek and Nika Vodan. This made the Prevc siblings the third family with at least four siblings to each win an Olympic medal.[29]
Personal life
Prevc was born in Kranj to Božidar and Julijana Prevc; the family has since been living in the village of Dolenja Vas. She has three brothers and a sister.[30][31] All three of her brothers, Peter, Cene and Domen, are also ski jumpers.[30][32] Her father, who owns a furniture business, is an international ski jumping referee.[33]
Major tournament results
Winter Olympics
| Year | Normal hill | Large hill | Mixed team |
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 Milano Cortina 2026 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
| Year | Normal hill | Large hill | Team NH | Mixed team |
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 Planica 2023 | 17 | 40 | 4 | — |
 Trondheim 2025 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
FIS Nordic Junior World Ski Championships
| Year | Normal hill | Team NH | Mixed team |
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 Lahti 2021 | 11 | 3 | — |
 Zakopane 2022 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
 Whistler 2023 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
World Cup results
Overall standings
Individual wins
| No. | Season | Date | Location | Hill | Hill size | |
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| 1 | 2023–24 | 16 December 2023 |  Engelberg | Gross-Titlis-Schanze | Large | HS140 |
| 2 | 30 December 2023 |  Garmisch-Partenkirchen | Große Olympiaschanze | Large | HS142 | |
| 3 | 3 January 2024 |  Villach | Villacher Alpenarena | Normal | HS98 | |
| 4 | 4 January 2024 | Villach | Villacher Alpenarena | Normal | HS98 | |
| 5 | 19 January 2024 |  Zaō | Yamagata | Normal | HS102 | |
| 6 | 28 January 2024 | Ljubno | Savina | Normal | HS94 | |
| 7 | 13 March 2024 | Trondheim | Granåsen | Large | HS138 | |
| 8 | 2024–25 | 23 November 2024 | Lillehammer | Lysgårdsbakken | Large | HS140 |
| 9 | 21 December 2024 | Engelberg | Gross-Titlis-Schanze | Large | HS140 | |
| 10 | 31 December 2024 | Garmisch-Partenkirchen | Große Olympiaschanze | Large | HS142 | |
| 11 | 1 January 2025 | Oberstdorf | Schattenbergschanze | Large | HS137 | |
| 12 | 24 January 2025 | Zaō | Yamagata | Normal | HS102 | |
| 13 | 7 February 2025 |  Lake Placid | MacKenzie Intervale | Large | HS128 | |
| 14 | 8 February 2025 | Lake Placid | MacKenzie Intervale | Large | HS128 | |
| 15 | 15 February 2025 | Ljubno | Savina | Normal | HS94 | |
| 16 | 16 February 2025 | Ljubno | Savina | Normal | HS94 | |
| 17 | 22 February 2025 | Hinzenbach | Aigner-Schanze | Normal | HS90 | |
| 18 | 23 February 2025 | Hinzenbach | Aigner-Schanze | Normal | HS90 | |
| 19 | 13 March 2025 | Oslo | Holmenkollbakken | Large | HS134 | |
| 20 | 15 March 2025 | Vikersund | Vikersundbakken | Flying | HS240 | |
| 21 | 20 March 2025 | Lahti | Salpausselkä | Large | HS130 | |
| 22 | 21 March 2025 | Lahti | Salpausselkä | Large | HS130 | |
| 23 | 2025–26 | 30 November 2025 |  Falun | Lugnet | Large | HS132 |
| 24 | 5 December 2025 | Wisła | Malinka | Large | HS134 | |
| 25 | 13 December 2025 | Klingenthal | Vogtland Arena | Large | HS140 | |
| 26 | 21 December 2025 | Engelberg | Gross-Titlis-Schanze | Large | HS140 | |
| 27 | 31 December 2025 | Garmisch-Partenkirchen | Große Olympiaschanze | Large | HS142 | |
| 28 | 5 January 2026 | Villach | Villacher Alpenarena | Normal | HS98 | |
| 29 | 6 January 2026 | Villach | Villacher Alpenarena | Normal | HS98 | |
| 30 | 10 January 2026 | Ljubno | Savina | Normal | HS94 | |
| 31 | 11 January 2026 | Ljubno | Savina | Normal | HS94 | |
| 32 | 16 January 2026 |  Zhangjiakou | Snow Ruyi | Large | HS140 | |
| 33 | 17 January 2026 | Zhangjiakou | Snow Ruyi | Large | HS140 | |
| 34 | 24 January 2026 | Sapporo | Ōkurayama | Large | HS137 | |
| 35 | 25 January 2026 | Sapporo | Ōkurayama | Large | HS137 | |
| 36 | 28 February 2026 | Hinzenbach | Aigner-Schanze | Normal | HS90 | |
| 37 | 5 March 2026 | Lahti | Salpausselkä | Large | HS130 | |
| 38 | 6 March 2026 | Lahti | Salpausselkä | Large | HS130 | |
| 39 | 14 March 2026 | Oslo | Holmenkollbakken | Large | HS134 | |
| 40 | 28 March 2026 | Planica | Letalnica bratov Gorišek | Flying | HS240 | |
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- Disqualified in the qualifiers