Sara Marita Kramer (born 25 October 2001) is a Dutch-born Austrian

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Biography

Kramer was born in the Netherlands, but moved from

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in Austria aged 6 when her parents started a pancake restaurant. This was documented for Dutch television program ''Ik Vertrek'' (''I'm leaving''). Kramer made her debut – representing Austria – in the

FIS Ski Jumping World Cup The FIS Ski Jumping World Cup is the world's highest level of ski jumping and the FIS Ski Flying World Cup as the subdivisional part of the competition. It was founded by Torbjørn Yggeseth for the 1979/80 season and organized by the Internatio ...

in 2017. She won three gold medals in the

2020 Nordic Junior World Ski Championships The FIS Nordic Junior and U23 World Ski Championships 2020 took place in Oberwiesenthal, Germany from 29 February to 8 March 2020. This was the 43rd Junior World Championships and the 15th Under-23 World Championships in nordic skiing. New comp ...

. She has also won eight individual events and three team events in the World Cup, as well as two individual third places. Kramer qualified for the 2022 Winter Olympics and was considered one of the gold medal favorites, but tested positive for COVID-19 on 30 January, one day before the Austrian team was leaving to Beijing, and was not allowed to fly to China even though she had no symptoms. She was leading the ranking of the

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before the Olympics and won 7 out of 11 events. Eventually, she won the individual World Cup that year.

Major tournament results

FIS World Nordic Ski Championships

World Cup

Standings

Wins

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kramer, Marita 2001 births Living people Austrian female ski jumpers Austrian people of Dutch descent FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in ski jumping