Stefan Kraft

Stefan Kraft
Kraft in 2019
CountryAustria
Born (1993-05-13) 13 May 1993
Schwarzach im Pongau,
Austria
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Ski clubSV Schwarzach
Personal best253.5 m (832 ft)
Vikersund, 18 March 2017
World Cup career
Seasons2012–present
Indiv. starts330
Indiv. podiums126
Indiv. wins45
Team starts65
Team podiums46
Team wins17
Overall titles3 (2017, 2020, 2024)
Four Hills titles1 (2015)
Ski Flying titles3 (2017, 2020, 2023)
Raw Air titles3 (2017, 2022, 2024)
Medal record
Representing  Austria
Men's ski jumping
Olympic Games
2022 Beijing Team LH
World Championships
2017 Lahti Individual NH
2017 Lahti Individual LH
2021 Oberstdorf Individual LH
2015 Falun Team LH
2017 Lahti Mixed team NH
2019 Seefeld Team LH
2019 Seefeld Mixed team NH
2021 Oberstdorf Team LH
2025 Trondheim Team LH
2015 Falun Individual NH
2017 Lahti Team LH
2019 Seefeld Individual NH
2021 Oberstdorf Mixed team NH
2023 Planica Team LH
2025 Trondheim Mixed team LH
Men's ski flying
World Championships
2024 Bad Mitterndorf Individual
2024 Bad Mitterndorf Team
2016 Bad Mitterndorf Individual
2016 Bad Mitterndorf Team
2022 Vikersund Individual
Updated on 30 March 2025.

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 and Raw Air Tournament three times, and three individual gold medals at the World Championships. Since March 2017, he has held the ski flying world record of 253.5 metres (832 ft).

Career

Kraft's debut in FIS Ski Jumping World Cup took place in January 2012 in Bischofshofen. He has three world cup wins and won 2014/15 Four Hills Tournament overall.[1] His personal best and world record is 253.5 meters set in Vikersund in 2017,[2] only half a meter away from Dimitry Vassiliev's 254-meter jump, the longest to date. At FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2015 in Falun, 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 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup title.[3]

World Cup results

Season titles

  • 6 titles – (3 overall, 3 ski flying)
Season
Discipline
2016/17 Overall
Ski flying
2019/20 Overall
Ski flying
2022/23 Ski flying
2023/24 Overall

Season standings

 Season  Tour Standings
Overall 4H SF RA W6 T5 P7
2011/12 — 67 — N/A N/A N/A N/A
2012/13 31 40 32 N/A N/A N/A N/A
2013/14 10 27 29 N/A N/A N/A N/A
2014/15 7 N/A N/A N/A N/A
2015/16 6 5 7 N/A N/A N/A N/A
2016/17 6 N/A N/A N/A
2017/18 4 20 4 4 — N/A 4
2018/19 17 8 7 N/A 12
2019/20 5 8 4 N/A
2020/21 17 8 22 N/A 15 N/A 17
2021/22 5 26 N/A N/A 6
2022/23 6 N/A N/A
2023/24 N/A N/A 4
2024/25 18 7 N/A N/A 6

Wins

No. Season Date Location Hill Size
1 2014/15 29 December 2014   Oberstdorf Schattenbergschanze HS137 LH
2 15 January 2015   Wisła Malinka HS134 LH
3 8 March 2015   Lahti Salpausselkä HS130 LH
4 2015/16 24 January 2016   Zakopane Wielka Krokiew HS134 LH
5 2016/17 30 December 2016   Oberstdorf Schattenbergschanze HS137 LH
6 4 February 2017   Oberstdorf Heini-Klopfer-Skiflugschanze HS225 FH
7 5 February 2017   Oberstdorf Heini-Klopfer-Skiflugschanze HS225 FH
8 15 February 2017   Pyeongchang Alpensia Ski Jumping Centre HS140 LH
9 12 March 2017   Oslo Holmenkollbakken HS134 LH
10 16 March 2017   Trondheim Granåsen HS140 LH
11 24 March 2017   Planica Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS225 FH
12 26 March 2017   Planica Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS225 FH
13 2018/19 20 January 2019   Zakopane Wielka Krokiew HS140 LH
14 26 January 2019   Sapporo Ōkurayama HS137 LH
15 27 January 2019   Sapporo Ōkurayama HS137 LH
16 12 March 2019   Lillehammer Lysgårdsbakken HS140 LH
17 2019/20 8 December 2019   Nizhny Tagil Tramplin Stork HS134 LH
18 2 February 2020   Sapporo Ōkurayama HS137 LH
19 16 February 2020   Tauplitz Kulm HS235 FH
20 22 February 2020   Râșnov Râșnov Ski Jump HS97 NH
21 28 February 2020   Lahti Salpausselkä HS130 LH
22 2021/22 11 December 2021   Klingenthal Vogtland Arena HS140 LH
23 25 February 2022   Lahti Salpausselkä HS130 LH
24 3 March 2022   Lillehammer Lysgårdsbakken HS140 LH
25 19 March 2022   Oberstdorf Heini-Klopfer-Skiflugschanze HS235 FH
26 2022/23 27 November 2022   Ruka[a] Rukatunturi HS142 LH
27 21 January 2023   Sapporo Ōkurayama HS137 LH
28 12 March 2023   Oslo Holmenkollbakken HS134 LH
29 19 March 2023   Vikersund Vikersundbakken HS240 FH
30 1 April 2023   Planica Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS240 FH
31 2023/24 25 November 2023   Ruka Rukatunturi HS142 LH
32 26 November 2023   Ruka Rukatunturi HS142 LH
33 2 December 2023   Lillehammer Lysgårdsbakken HS98 NH
34 3 December 2023   Lillehammer Lysgårdsbakken HS140 LH
35 17 December 2023   Engelberg Gross-Titlis HS140 LH
36 6 January 2024   Bischofshofen Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze HS142 LH
37 21 January 2024   Zakopane Wielka Krokiew HS140 LH
38 11 February 2024   Lake Placid MacKenzie Intervale Complex HS128 LH
39 17 February 2024   Sapporo Ōkurayama HS137 LH
40 25 February 2024   Oberstdorf Heini-Klopfer-Skiflugschanze HS235 FH
41 9 March 2024   Oslo Holmenkollbakken HS134 LH
42 13 March 2024   Trondheim Granåsen HS138 NH
43 17 March 2024   Vikersund Vikersundbakken HS240 FH
44 2024/25 29 December 2024   Oberstdorf Oberstdorf HS137 LH
45 4 January 2025   Innsbruck Bergiselschanze HS128 LH

Individual starts (330)

Season 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 Points
2011/12 0
– – – – – – – – – q 54 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
2012/13 202
– – – – – – – – – 23 3 28 11 – – – – – – 19 11 38 6 14 42 27 22
2013/14 539
14 q 22 25 25 19 12 13 50 30 12 20 33 21 21 22 24 16 15 7 5 2 4 9 11 8 13 9
2014/15 1578
2 13 13 17 11 4 3 6 9 1 6 2 3 2 1 2 2 4 7 6 2 5 – – 1 3 9 10 5 3 4
2015/16 1006
6 4 14 22 27 7 8 7 9 11 4 4 1 – – 2 5 6 2 11 8 3 11 4 21 22 10 12 10
2016/17 1665
9 4 3 3 8 6 3 1 3 18 25 2 4 – 2 1 1 3 3 1 2 1 1 5 1 1
2017/18 881
3 13 4 3 12 13 3 4 31 24 4 9 15 – – 3 2 8 2 5 3 2
2018/19 1349
21 26 10 5 20 8 12 3 49 2 3 4 2 1 1 1 6 3 7 4 11 10 2 1 3 3 14 17
2019/20 1659
21 4 7 1 2 2 18 4 13 4 4 2 2 2 11 2 2 1 4 3 1 3 1 1 2 8 17
2020/21 429
32 – – – – – – 6 28 8 4 9 3 – 5 23 6 19 16 10 5 – 23 29 17
2021/22 1069
q 3 4 7 3 1 26 9 14 12 q 23 24 17 – 22 9 25 6 1 3 1 8 3 1 3 6 11
2022/23 1790
3 5 2 1 8 3 4 6 5 18 4 14 3 5 1 18 2 3 8 13 16 3 – 2 1 2 8 2 1 2 1 3
2023/24 2149
1 1 1 1 2 9 3 1 3 6 6 1 2 1 39 6 24 1 1 4 3 1 49 8 1 3 5 1 1 2 7 4
2024–25 1290
4 4 3 2 7 3 11 9 14 3 1 8 1 3 7 29 7 12 4 9 14 6 5 10 6 4 2 5 12

Podiums

Season Podiums
Medals Total
2011/12 - - - -
2012/13 - - 1 1
2013/14 - 1 - 1
2014/15 3 6 4 13
2015/16 1 2 1 4
2016/17 8 3 6 17
2017/18 - 3 5 8
2018/19 4 3 5 12
2019/20 5 8 2 15
2020/21 - - 1 1
2021/22 4 - 5 9
2022/23 5 6 6 17
2023/24 13 3 4 20
Total 43 35 40 118

Ski jumping world record

Date Hill Location Metres Feet
18 March 2017   Vikersundbakken HS225 Vikersund, Norway 253.5 832

Olympic results

Year
Age Normal hill Large hill Team Mixed Team
2018 Pyeongchang 24 13 18 4 –
2022 Beijing 28 10 13 1 5

World Championships

  • 13 medals – (3 gold, 5 silver, 5 bronze)
Year
Normal Hill Large Hill Team (men) Team (mixed)
2013 Val di Fiemme 33 8 – –
2015 Falun 3 5 2 4
2017 Lahti 1 1 3 2
2019 Seefeld 3 6 2 2
2021 Oberstdorf 10 1 2 3
2023 Planica 4 6 3 4

Notes

  1. ^ Tied with Halvor Egner Granerud

References

  1. ^ "Stefan Kraft wins 4-Hills, Michael Hayboeck takes win in Bischofshofen" (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
  2. ^ "Austria's Stefan Kraft breaks world record after landing 253.5m ski jump". Guinness World Records. 22 March 2017. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
  3. ^ Gayle, Everton (26 March 2017). "Stefan Kraft wins ski jumping world cup title". euronews. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
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