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Daniela Iraschko-Stolz

Daniela Iraschko-Stolz
Iraschko-Stolz in 2014
CountryAustria
Born (1983-11-21) 21 November 1983 (age 41)
Eisenerz, Austria
Height1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Ski clubWSV Eisenerz
Personal best200 m (660 ft) (656 ft)
Kulm, 29 January 2003
World Cup career
Seasons2012–present
Indiv. starts136
Indiv. podiums53
Indiv. wins16
Team starts8
Team podiums7
Team wins3
Overall titles1 (2015)
Updated on 13 March 2022.
Daniela Iraschko-Stolz
Personal information
Date of birth (1983-11-21) 21 November 1983 (age 41)
Place of birth Eisenerz, Austria
Height 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Position(s) Offensive midfielder and forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1993–2003 WSV Eisenerz
2003–2006 Innsbrucker AC
2006–2017 Wacker Innsbruck
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 17 December 2022

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

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

Standings

 Season  Overall ST AK L3 RA BB
2011/12 2nd place, silver medalist(s) N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
2012/13 10 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
2013/14 5 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
2014/15 1st place, gold medalist(s) N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
2015/16 2nd place, silver medalist(s) N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
2016/17 6 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
2017/18 7 N/A N/A N/A N/A
2018/19 8 N/A N/A 5 4
2019/20 6 N/A N/A N/A 9 N/A
2020/21 5 N/A N/A N/A N/A 5
2021/22 14 6 N/A N/A

Wins

No. Season Date Location Hill Size
1 2011/12 4 February 2012   Austria Hinzenbach Aigner-Schanze HS94 NH
2 5 February 2012   Austria Hinzenbach Aigner-Schanze HS94 NH
3 2012/13 9 December 2012   Russia Sochi RusSki Gorki HS106 NH
4 2013/14 25 January 2012   Slovenia Planica Normal hill HS104 NH
5 26 January 2012   Slovenia Planica Normal hill HS104 NH
6 2014/15 24 January 2015   Germany Oberstdorf Schattenbergschanze HS106 NH
7 25 January 2015   Germany Oberstdorf Schattenbergschanze HS106 NH
8 31 January 2015   Austria Hinzenbach Aigner-Schanze HS94 NH
9 7 February 2015   Romania Râșnov Trambulina Valea Cărbunării HS100 NH
10 15 February 2015   Slovenia Ljubno Savina Ski Jumping Center HS95 NH
11 2015/16 12 December 2015   Russia Nizhny Tagil Tramplin Stork HS97 NH
12 14 February 2016   Slovenia Ljubno Savina Ski Jumping Center HS95 NH
13 2017/18 28 January 2018   Slovenia Ljubno Savina Ski Jumping Center HS94 NH
14 2018/19 12 January 2019   Japan Sapporo Ōkurayama HS137 LH
15 18 January 2019   Japan Zaō Yamagata HS102 NH
16 10 March 2019   Norway Oslo Holmenkollbakken HS134 LH

Austrian football

With Wacker Innsbruck:

Personal life

She married her partner in 2013.[10]

References

  1. ^ "FIS decision not to add women's ski flying "unbelievable", says Lundby". www.insidethegames.biz. 18 April 2021. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  2. ^ "Hopp Berkutschi.com - Hoppstjerner - Iraschko-Stolz, Daniela". berkutschi.com. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  3. ^ Første kvinne passerte 200m i Kulm Skihopp.no. 29 January 2003
  4. ^ Middleton, Josh (12 February 2014). "Lesbian Daniela Iraschko-Stolz Wins Medal in Ski-Jumping". Philadelphia Magazine. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  5. ^ "Nordische WM: Skispringen: Daniela Iraschko-Stolz holt Bronze". www.kleinezeitung.at (in German). 27 February 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  6. ^ "Fußball: Iraschko-Stolz hätte sich Nationalteam-Karriere zugetraut". 4 July 2017.
  7. ^ "Daniela Iraschko-Stolz".
  8. ^ "Homosexuelle Iraschko-Stolz im Fokus". 6 October 2013.
  9. ^ "HOME | Meinewebsite".
  10. ^ Michael Shields (29 January 2014) Ski jumping-Austria's Iraschko dreams of Olympic flight, Reuters