Nika Prevc (born 15 March 2005) is a Slovenian

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 ...

. She is one of the most successful women's ski jumpers of all time with two overall

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 Internationa ...

titles, two individual gold medals at the

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships is a biennial Nordic skiing event organized by the International Ski Federation (FIS). The World Championships was started in 1925 for men and opened for women's participation in 1954. World Championship eve ...

, and three gold medals at the

FIS Nordic Junior World Ski Championships The FIS Nordic Junior World Ski Championships is an annual nordic skiing event organized by the International Ski Federation (FIS). The Junior World Championships was started in 1977 and was first hosted in Sainte-Croix, Switzerland. The Junior ...

. Prevc has also won 22 individual World Cup events, the third-most behind only

Sara Takanashi (born 8 October 1996) is a Japanese ski jumper. She is one of the most successful female ski jumpers to date, as well as one of the most successful athletes in the history of the sport, having won four World Cup overall titles (an all-time fema ...

and

Maren Lundby Maren Lundby (born 7 September 1994) is a retired Norwegian ski jumper. She is one of the most successful ski jumpers in the history of the sport, having won three consecutive World Cup overall titles (an all-time record shared with Adam Małysz ...

. In addition, she holds the record for the most points won in a women's World Cup season (1,933), and the joint record for the most consecutive wins (10) and total wins (15) in a single World Cup season. Prevc is the current women's world record holder with , set in

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on 14 March 2025.

Career

Early career

Prevc made her official ski jumping debut on 5 August 2018, at the age of 13, at the

FIS Ski Jumping Alpen Cup The FIS Ski Jumping Alpen Cup (known as Alpen Cup) is a ski jumping tournament held in Alps yearly by the International Ski Federation since 1990. History The first season of this competition took place in the 1990/91 season. The summer season was ...

competition in

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. She finished in 29th place out of 55 competitors. Almost exactly a year later, on 4 August 2019, she achieved her first Alpen Cup victory at the same venue. In the 2020–21 Alpen Cup season, Prevc became the overall winner of the competition with 597 points out of 8 events; she also finished outside the top three only twice. In the same season, she also made her debut in the

FIS Ski Jumping Continental Cup The FIS Ski Jumping Continental Cup is a series of ski jumping competitions arranged yearly by the International Ski Federation. It is considered the second level of international ski jumping, ranking below the World Cup and not counting Grand P ...

, where she finished seventh overall.

World Cup debut, first podium and youth world champion (2021–2023)

Prevc made her debut in the top-tier

in November 2021, aged 16, in

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. She finished her inaugural match in 23rd place, which was enough for her first World Cup points. Prevc won several gold medals at junior level in 2022. She won the individual gold at the

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, in addition to gold in the mixed team event. Prevc also became the junior world champion at the

2022 Nordic Junior World Ski Championships The 2022 FIS Nordic Junior World Ski Championships were held from 22 February to 6 March 2022 in Zakopane, Poland and Gran, Norway, Lygna, Norway. Schedule ''All times are local (Central European Time, UTC+1).'' ;Cross-country ;Nordic combined ...

Zakopane Zakopane (Gorals#Language, Podhale Goral: ''Zokopane'') is a town in the south of Poland, in the southern part of the Podhale region at the foot of the Tatra Mountains. From 1975 to 1998, it was part of Nowy Sącz Voivodeship; since 1999, it has ...

, where she also won gold in the women's team event and a silver medal in the mixed team event with the Slovenia national team. In February 2023, she finished on the World Cup podium for the first time after finishing third in

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World Cup domination and records (2023–present)

The 2023–24 season marked a breakthrough in her career. On 16 December 2023 in

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, Prevc achieved her first individual World Cup victory after finishing above her countrywoman

Ema Klinec Ema Klinec (born 2 July 1998) is a Slovenian ski jumper. In February 2021, she became the first Slovenian female ski jumping world champion after winning the normal hill event at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2021. On 18 March 2023, Kl ...

. She then clinched the overall ranking of the inaugural 'Two Nights Tour' with a victory in

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and a fifth-place finish in

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, and took the lead in the overall World Cup standings after a victory in

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in January 2024. Prevc finished the season in first place with 1,454 points, winning 7 out of 24 events. She became the fourth Slovenian ski jumper to win the overall World Cup title after

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, her brother

Peter Prevc Peter Prevc (; born 20 September 1992) is a Slovenian former ski jumper. He won the 2016 Ski Jumping World Cup overall title and four Olympic medals, including gold at the 2022 Winter Olympics in the mixed team event. He also won the 2016 Fou ...

, and Nika Križnar. In the 2024–25 season, Prevc again won the overall ranking of the Two Nights Tour with World Cup victories in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Oberstdorf. On 13 March 2025 in

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, she officially retained the overall World Cup title after going on a seven-match winning streak, becoming the third woman after

and

to win more than one World Cup title. The next day, Prevc set a women's world record at during the training session at 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

. At the 2024–25 World Cup season finale in

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, she broke several records. In the final match of the season, Prevc won by a record points margin over the runner-up, after having a 51.4-point lead over second-place finisher

Selina Freitag Selina Alma Freitag (born 19 May 2001) is a German ski jumper. She won the overall ranking of the 2016–17 FIS Ski Jumping Alpen Cup, and has competed at World Cup level since the 2018–19 season. Her best individual result is second place, ac ...

. She also set the record for the most points scored in a women's World Cup season with 1,933, surpassing the 1,909 points set by Lundby in the 2018–19 season. Additionally, she finished the season with ten consecutive World Cup victories, tying Takanashi's record set in 2015–16. She also tied another record held by Takanashi for the most World Cup victories in a single season, with fifteen. At the 2025 Nordic World Ski Championships in

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, Prevc became world champion in both women's individual events (normal hill and large hill), becoming the first woman to win two individual gold medals at the same championship. In addition, she also won a silver medal in the mixed team event together with Klinec,

Anže Lanišek Anže Lanišek (born 20 April 1996) is a Slovenian Ski jumping, ski jumper. Career Lanišek made his FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, World Cup debut in Planica on 21 March 2014, where he finished in 34th place. He achieved his first World Cup victory ...

and her brother

Domen Prevc Domen Prevc (born 4 June 1999) is a Slovenian Ski jumping, ski jumper. He is one of the most successful Slovenian ski jumpers with two gold medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, Nordic World Ski Championships and two gold medals at the ...

Personal life

Prevc was born in

Kranj Kranj (, ) is the List of cities and towns in Slovenia, fourth-largest city in Slovenia and the largest urban center of the traditional region of Upper Carniola (northwestern Slovenia) and the Slovene Alps. It is located approximately northwest o ...

to Božidar and Julijana Prevc; the family has since been living in the village of Dolenja Vas. She has three brothers and a sister. All three of her brothers,

Peter Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a su ...

Cene Cene may refer to: People * Cene Marković, Serbian commander * Cene Prevc (born 1996), Slovenian ski jumper * Charles Le Cène (1647?–1703), French controversialist * Ilhami Çene (born 1909), Turkish fencer * Michel-Charles Le Cène (1684–17 ...

and Domen, are also ski jumpers. Her father, who owns a furniture business, is an international ski jumping referee.

Major tournament results

FIS Nordic Junior World Ski Championships

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships

World Cup

Standings

Individual wins

Individual starts

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Prevc, Nika 2005 births Living people Skiers from Kranj Slovenian female ski jumpers Prevc family 21st-century Slovenian sportswomen European Games silver medalists for Slovenia European Games bronze medalists for Slovenia European Games medalists in ski jumping Ski jumpers at the 2023 European Games FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in ski jumping