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Robert Kranjec
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Country Slovenia
Born (1981-07-16) 16 July 1981 (age 43)
Ljubljana, SR Slovenia,
SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Personal best 244 m (801 ft)
Vikersund, 25 February 2012
World Cup career
Seasons 1998
2000–2016
2018–2019
Individual wins 7
Indiv. podiums 27
Indiv. starts 325
Ski Flying titles 2 (2010, 2012)
Medal record
Men's ski jumping
Olympic Games
Bronze 2002 Salt Lake City Team LH
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
Bronze 2011 Oslo Team LH
Men's ski flying
FIS Ski Flying World Championships
Gold 2012 Vikersund Individual
Bronze 2012 Vikersund Team

Robert Kranjec (born 16 July 1981) is a Slovenian former ski jumper.

Career

Kranjec won a bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City in the team large hill event. He won his first World Cup event at Kuusamo, Finland in 2005. In the following years, he could not reach any top results except for ski flying competitions. In 2010 he celebrated his second World Cup victory at Tauplitz, Austria. After two more successful ski flying competitions at Tauplitz and Oberstdorf, in which he achieved second place each time, he won the ski flying World Cup in the 2009–10 season.

In 2012, he won the 2012 FIS Ski Flying World Championships and thus became Slovenia's third World Champion in ski jumping and the first in ski flying. He also set a new national record. At the same championship, he won the bronze medal in team competition. In the same season, Kranjec also won his second ski flying World Cup title.

Kranjec retired from ski jumping in March 2019.

Personal life

Kranjec was born in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia (present-day Slovenia) to a Slovene mother and a Croat father.

World Cup

Standings

 Season  Overall 4H SF NT JP
1997–98
1999–00
2000–01 N/A
2001–02 16 23 N/A 7 N/A
2002–03 17 25 N/A 15 N/A
2003–04 46 47 N/A 36 N/A
2004–05 45 58 N/A 32 N/A
2005–06 16 28 N/A N/A
2006–07 27 37 N/A 35 N/A
2007–08 25 28 N/A 30 N/A
2008–09 23 31 7 12 N/A
2009–10 10 14 1 12 N/A
2010–11 18 21 8 N/A N/A
2011–12 9 14 1 N/A N/A
2012–13 6 21 2 N/A N/A
2013–14 11 28 9 N/A N/A
2014–15 26 29 21 N/A N/A
2015–16 13 42 2 N/A N/A
2017–18 49 27 N/A N/A
2018–19 N/A N/A

Individual wins

No. Season Date Location Hill Size
1 2005–06 26 November 2005   Finland Kuusamo Rukatunturi HS142 LH
2 2009–10 9 January 2010   Austria Tauplitz/Bad Mitterndorf Kulm HS200 FH
3 2011–12 15 January 2012   Austria Tauplitz/Bad Mitterndorf Kulm HS200 FH
4 16 March 2012   Slovenia Planica Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS215 FH
5 2012–13 27 January 2013   Norway Vikersund Vikersundbakken HS225 FH
6 2015–16 12 February 2016   Norway Vikersund Vikersundbakken HS225 FH
7 18 March 2016   Slovenia Planica Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS225 FH

See also

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