Daniela Iraschko-Stolz ( Iraschko; born 21 November 1983) is an Austrian former

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 fin ...

and

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

. She is one of the ski jumping's most successful female athletes, having won the 2014/15 women's World Cup season, and has the third most individual female World Cup wins – 12 – as of March 2017. From 2003 to 2023 she held the women's ski flying world record of , and was the first woman to reach 200 m. In football, she has played at the highest levels of the domestic women's game.

Career

Ski jumping

Iraschko-Stolz has competed in ski jumping since 2000. She is best known for her three individual victories at the

Holmenkollen Ski Festival The Holmenkollen Ski Festival ( or ) is a traditional annual Nordic skiing event in Holmenkollen, Oslo, Norway. The full official name of the event is Holmenkollen FIS World Cup Nordic. History It takes place in March and has been arranged every ...

(2000, 2001, 2003). In 2009–10 she won the women's Continental Cup. She won the gold medal at the

2007 Winter Universiade The 2007 Winter Universiade, the XXIII Winter Universiade, took place in Turin, Italy from January 17 to 27, 2007. Opening ceremony The Opening Ceremony of the XXIII Winter Universiade Torino 2007 was held with a cast of acrobats, circus perform ...

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, gold at the 2011 Ski Jumping World Championships in

Holmenkollen Holmenkollen () is a mountain and a neighbourhood in the Vestre Aker borough of Oslo, Norway. It goes up to above sea level and is well known for its international skiing competitions. Etymology The name is a compound of the farm name and the ...

, and silver at the

2014 Winter Olympics The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially called the XXII Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Sochi 2014 (), were an international winter multi-sport event that was held from 7 to 23 February 2014 in Sochi, Russia. Opening ro ...

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. She has nine individual wins at the World Cup level and finished second overall in the first-ever women's World Cup season in 2011/12. On 29 January 2003, Iraschko-Stolz became the first woman to fly over 200 metres during practice for a World Cup event on the

ski flying Ski flying is a winter sport discipline derived from ski jumping, in which much greater distances can be achieved. It is a form of competitive individual sport, individual Nordic skiing where athletes descend at high speed along a specially de ...

hill in Kulm, a women's world record which still stands today. Due to being injured, she was unable to compete in the Nordic World Championships 2013. In 2014, she won a silver medal in the normal hill competition at the

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. At the Nordic World Ski Championship 2015 in

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, she won a bronze medal in the normal hill competition. At the Nordic World Ski Championship 2017 in

Lahti Lahti (; ) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Päijät-Häme. It is located in the Finnish Lakeland. The population of Lahti is approximately , while the Lahti sub-region, sub-region has a population of approximately . It is the mo ...

, she won together with

Michael Hayböck Michael "Michi" Hayböck (; born 5 March 1991) is an Austrian former Ski jumping, ski jumper. Career He took his first World Cup win on 6 January 2015 in Bischofshofen in the final event of the 2014–15 Four Hills Tournament, Four Hills Tourname ...

, Jacqueline Seifriedsberger, and

Stefan Kraft Stefan Kraft (born 13 May 1993) is an Austrian ski jumper. He is one of the most successful ski jumpers of all time, having won the Ski Jumping World Cup and Ski Flying World Cup overall titles three times each, the Four Hills Tournament once ...

the silver medal in the mixed team competition.

Football

Iraschko started playing

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

at a young age and started her career at WSV Eisenerz in 1993. In 2003 she moved to the

Bundesliga The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany and the highest level of the German football league system. The Bundesliga comprises 18 teams ...

side Innsbrucker AC, and after the dissolution of the women's team in 2006 she moved to

Wacker Innsbruck FC Wacker Innsbruck was an Austrian association football club from Innsbruck, Tyrol. History The ''Fußball-Club Wacker'' ("Valiant") ''Innsbruck'' was established in 1915 by Jakob Hanspeter, Benedikt Hosp, Josef Leitner, Josef Albrecht and o ...

. In 2008, 2009 and 2010 she became Austrian runner-up with the team behind the champions

SV Neulengbach SV Neulengbach is an Football in Austria, Austrian association football club from Neulengbach. The club was founded in 1923, and in 1996 expanded to include a women's football section. While the men always played in the lower leagues of Austria, ...

, in 2009 and 2012 she was in the

Austrian Cup The Austrian Cup (), known as UNIQA ÖFB Cup for sponsorship purposes, is an annual football competition held by the Austrian Football Association, the ÖFB. During the 2008–09 season, Austria Wien won the tournament for a record 27th time. Wo ...

final.

Honours and statistics

Ski Jumping World Cup

Standings

Wins

Austrian football

With

: *2x

finalist: 2009, 2012 *3x

Austrian Bundesliga The Bundesliga ( , "Federal League"), also known as Admiral Bundesliga for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Austria and the highest level of the Austrian football league system. The competition decides the A ...

runner-up: 2008, 2009, 2010

Personal life

She married her partner in 2013.Michael Shields (29 January 2014
Ski jumping-Austria's Iraschko dreams of Olympic flight
Reuters

References

External links

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