Domen Prevc (born 4 June 1999) is a Slovenian
ski jumper.
Career
2015: World Cup debut
Prevc competed in the
2015 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival
The 2015 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival was held in Vorarlberg, Austria and Liechtenstein between 25 and 30 January 2015. It was the first time that two countries become hosts in a European Youth Olympic Festival.
Sports
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. He made an individual
World Cup debut on 22 November 2015 in
Klingenthal with eighth place. He needed only four World Cup starts to reach his first podium on 19 December 2015 in
Engelberg where he took second place. At that event, Domen and
Peter Prevc 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
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and Engelberg.
2017: Ski flying debut
On 28 January 2017 in
Willingen, 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
ski flying event in
Oberstdorf on 3 February 2017. On 19 March 2017 in
Vikersund, he improved his personal best jump to 243.5 metres (798 ft).
Personal life
Prevc was born in
Kranj
Kranj (, german: Krainburg) is the third-largest city in Slovenia, with a population of 37,941 (2020). It is located approximately northwest of Ljubljana. The centre of the City Municipality of Kranj and of the traditional region of Upper Carniol ...
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,
Peter and
Cene, and one of his sisters,
Nika, are also
FIS Ski Jumping World Cup 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
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1999 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Kranj
Slovenian male ski jumpers
Prevc family
21st-century Slovenian people