Stefan Kraft (born 13 May 1993) is an Austrian

ski jumper Ski jumping is a winter sport in which competitors aim to achieve the farthest jump after sliding down on their skis from a specially designed curved ramp. Along with jump length, competitor's aerial style and other factors also affect the fina ...

. He is one of the most successful contemporary athletes in ski jumping, having won the

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 Internation ...

and Ski Flying World Cup overall titles twice each, the

Four Hills Tournament The Four Hills Tournament (german: link=no, Vierschanzentournee) or the German-Austrian Ski Jumping Week (german: link=no, Deutsch-Österreichische Skisprung-Woche) is a ski jumping event composed of four World Cup events and has taken place in ...

and Raw Air Tournament once each, and three individual gold medals at the

World Championships A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ...

. Since March 2017, he has held the ski flying world record of .

Career

Kraft's debut in

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 Internation ...

took place in January 2012 in

Bischofshofen Bischofshofen () is a town in the district of St. Johann im Pongau in the Austrian federal state of Salzburg. It is an important traffic junction located both on the Salzburg-Tyrol Railway line and at the Tauern Autobahn, a major highway route cr ...

. He has two world cup wins and won 2014/15 Four Hills Tournament overall. His personal best and world record is 253.5 meters set in Vikersund in 2017, only half a meter away from

Dimitry Vassiliev Dimitry Viktorovich Vassiliev (russian: link=no, Дмитрий Викторович Васильев, born 26 December 1979) is a Russian former ski jumper who has competed at World Cup level from 1998 to 2021. World Cup career Vassiliev made ...

's 254 meter jump, the longest to date. At

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2015 The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2015 took place between 18 February and 1 March 2015 in Falun, Sweden. This was the fourth time the event is held there, having previously been held there in 1954, 1974 and 1993. In 1980, one World Ski Cha ...

Falun Falun () is a city and the seat of Falun Municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden, with 37,291 inhabitants in 2010. It is also the capital of Dalarna County. Falun forms, together with Borlänge, a metropolitan area with just over 100,000 inhabita ...

he won the silver medal from Men's team large hill event and bronze from Individual normal hill event. In March 2017, he clinched his first overall

title.

World Cup results

2017-10-03 FIS SGP 2017 Klingenthal Stefan Kraft Flug

Stefan Kraft – World Cup Zakopane (2013)

Season titles

* 4 titles – (2 Overall, 2 Ski flying)

Season standings

Wins

Individual starts (237)

Podiums

Ski jumping world record

Current world record longest standing ski jump in the world.

Olympic results

World Championships

* 12 medals – (3 gold, 5 silver, 4 bronze)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kraft, Stefan 1993 births Living people Austrian male ski jumpers FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in ski jumping People from St. Johann im Pongau District Ski jumpers at the 2018 Winter Olympics Ski jumpers at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic ski jumpers of Austria Olympic gold medalists for Austria Olympic medalists in ski jumping Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics World record setters in ski flying Sportspeople from Salzburg (state) 21st-century Austrian people