Jan Hörl (born 16 October 1998) 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 fin ...

and Olympic champion from the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing Hörl's

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 ...

debut took place in Innsbruck on January 4th 2019 where he finished 29th. On 5 December 2021 he won his first individual World Cup competition in

Wisła Wisła (; german: Weichsel; cs, Visla) is a town in Cieszyn County, Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland, with a population of about 11,132 (2019), near the border with Czech Republic. It is situated in the Silesian Beskids mountain range in th ...

, Poland. On February 14th 2022, he achieved his biggest success when Jan Hörl, together with

Stefan Kraft Stefan Kraft (born 13 May 1993) is an Austrian ski jumper. He is one of the most successful contemporary athletes in ski jumping, having won the Ski Jumping World Cup and Ski Flying World Cup overall titles twice each, the Four Hills Tourname ...

, Daniel Huber and Manuel Fettner, won the team competition gold medal in Beijing 2022.

World Cup

His best season has been the 2021-22 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, where he finished 9th in the overall ranking with 662 points and achieved his first individual World Cup win in

and finished 3rd on the Paul-Außerleitner-Schanze in his hometown

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 c ...

. Hörl has won three team competitions this season in

and

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. He also finished first in the large hill team competition in

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Individual victories

team victories

Season standings

References

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* 1998 births Living people Austrian male ski jumpers FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in ski jumping 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 21st-century Austrian people {{Austria-wintersport-bio-stub