With her victory in Sapporo, Nika Prevc has now won at 18 different World Cup venues.
Slovenia’s ski jumping sensation Nika Prevc has continued her record hunt in Japan.
The world champion won on Saturday at the first of two World Cup ski jumps in Sapporo and has now celebrated victories at 18 different venues – thus equaling the record set by Japan’s Sara Takanashi. The best German on the 1972 Olympic hill was Selina Freitag in fifth place.
The 20-year-old Prevc, who surprisingly hadn’t won twice recently in Zao, celebrated her 34th career victory and her twelfth this winter.
Ski Jumping: Friday misses podium by four meters
With jumps of 129.0 and 128.0 m (279.4 points), she was ahead of Canadian Abigail Strate (273.9) and Anna Odine Ström from Norway (260.3). Vice World Champion Friday (253.2) was equivalent to four meters short of the podium.
The second-best German was Agnes Reisch in eighth place. Record world champion Katharina Schmid, winner in Sapporo in 2023, had to settle for 14th place.
Another individual competition will take place on Sunday on the Okurayama ski jump, before the Olympic dress rehearsal in Willingen takes place the following weekend.