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Daniela Iraschko-Stolz

Daniela Iraschko-Stolz

Austrian ski jumper

Daniela Iraschko-Stolz (née Iraschko; born 21 November 1983) is an Austrian former ski jumper and footballer.

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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 200 m (660 ft), and was the first woman to reach 200 m.[1]

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 (2000, 2001, 2003). In 2009–10 she won the women's Continental Cup.[2] She won the gold medal at the 2007 Winter Universiade in Turin, gold at the 2011 Ski Jumping World Championships in Holmenkollen, and silver at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. 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 hill in Kulm,[3] 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 Winter Olympics in Sochi.[4]

At the Nordic World Ski Championship 2015 in Falun, she won a bronze medal in the normal hill competition.[5] At the Nordic World Ski Championship 2017 in Lahti, she won together with Michael Hayböck, Jacqueline Seifriedsberger, and Stefan Kraft the silver medal in the mixed team competition.

Football

Iraschko started playing association football at a young age[6] and started her career at WSV Eisenerz in 1993. In 2003 she moved to the Bundesliga side Innsbrucker AC, and after the dissolution of the women's team in 2006 she moved to Wacker Innsbruck.[7][8] In 2008, 2009 and 2010 she became Austrian runner-up with the team behind the champions SV Neulengbach, in 2009 and 2012 she was in the Austrian Cup final.[9]

Honours and statistics

Ski Jumping World Cup

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Austrian football

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Personal life

She married her partner in 2013.[10]

References

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    "Hopp Berkutschi.com - Hoppstjerner - Iraschko-Stolz, Daniela". berkutschi.com. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
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    Første kvinne passerte 200m i Kulm Skihopp.no. 29 January 2003
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    Middleton, Josh (12 February 2014). "Lesbian Daniela Iraschko-Stolz Wins Medal in Ski-Jumping". Philadelphia Magazine. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
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    "Nordische WM: Skispringen: Daniela Iraschko-Stolz holt Bronze". www.kleinezeitung.at (in German). 27 February 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
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    "Fußball: Iraschko-Stolz hätte sich Nationalteam-Karriere zugetraut". 4 July 2017.
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    "Daniela Iraschko-Stolz".
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    "Homosexuelle Iraschko-Stolz im Fokus". 6 October 2013.
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    "HOME | Meinewebsite".
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    Michael Shields (29 January 2014) Ski jumping-Austria's Iraschko dreams of Olympic flight, Reuters
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