Domen Prevc (born 4 June 1999) is a Slovenian

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Career

2015: World Cup debut

Prevc competed in the

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. He made an individual

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debut on 22 November 2015 in

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with eighth place. He needed only four World Cup starts to reach his first podium on 19 December 2015 in

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where he took second place. At that event, Domen and

Peter Prevc Peter Prevc (; born 20 September 1992) is a Slovenian ski jumper. He won the 2016 Ski Jumping World Cup overall title and four Olympic medals, including gold at the 2022 Winter Olympics in the mixed team event. He also won the 2016 Four Hill ...

shared a podium as the first brothers in the World Cup history.

2016: First win and yellow bib

Prevc won his first World Cup individual event on 25 November 2016 at the 2016–17 season opening in Kuusamo/Ruka, and therefore wore yellow bib as the World Cup overall leader for the first time in his career. Soon after that he won another three December World Cup individual events in Klingenthal, Lillehammer and Engelberg.

2017: Ski flying debut

On 28 January 2017 in

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, together with his brothers Cene and Peter, he represented the Slovenian national team in the team event of the World Cup. Despite his age, he competed for the first time in his career at the

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event in

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on 3 February 2017. On 19 March 2017 in

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, he improved his personal best jump to 243.5 metres (798 ft).

Personal life

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. Both his brothers,

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and Cene, and one of his sisters, Nika, are also

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jumpers. His father, who owns a furniture business, is also an international ski jumping referee.

World Cup

Standings

Individual victories

Individual starts

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Prevc, Domen 1999 births Living people Sportspeople from Kranj Slovenian male ski jumpers Prevc family 21st-century Slovenian people