2014–15 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup

World Cup 2014/15
Discipline	Men	Ladies
Overall	Severin Freund	Daniela Iraschko-Stolz
Nations Cup	Germany	Austria
Ski Flying	Peter Prevc	—
Four Hills Tournament	Stefan Kraft	—
Competition
Edition	36th	4th
Locations	21	8
Individual	31	13
Team	5	—
Cancelled	5	1
Rescheduled	4	0
← 2013/14		2015/16 →

The 2014/15 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup was the 36th World Cup season in ski jumping for men, the 18th official World Cup season in ski flying and the 4th season for ladies. It began on 22 November 2014 and ended on 22 March 2015 in Planica, Slovenia.^[1] A break took place during the season in February for the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2015 in Falun, Sweden.

The defending champions from the previous season were Kamil Stoch from Poland, Peter Prevc from Slovenia as defending ski flying champion and Sara Takanashi from Japan.

A common win of Simon Ammann and Noriaki Kasai in Ruka, Finland was the 10th double win in history of Men's Ski Jumping World Cup competition.

63rd Four Hills Tournament offered extra prize money. Overall winner earned 20,000 CHF and winner of qualifications 2,400 CHF. Those earnings are included in prize money standings below. Stefan Kraft of Austria won the Tournament for the first time, followed by Michael Hayböck of Austria and Peter Prevc.

February 2015 saw an improvement of the world record in ski jumping distance, the previous record of Johan Remen Evensen (246.5 m, set in Vikersund) stood since February 2011. On 14 February, Peter Prevc set the new mark with 250 m (820 ft) in Vikersund, Norway. His achievement was beaten the next day by Anders Fannemel from Norway with 251.5 m (825 ft), which is the current record. Earlier that day, Dimitry Vassiliev from Russia fell at longest ever 254 m (833 ft) jump in qualifying round, but since a proper landing is required for the jump to be valid, his jump does not count as a record.

Peter Prevc and Jurij Tepeš became the sixth and seventh man in ski jumping history to achieve a "perfect jump", with all five judges awarding them top style marks (5x20). This took place in Planica on 20 March (Prevc) and 22 March (Tepeš).

Severin Freund became the World Cup winner for the first time. Freund and Prevc ended the season with the identical number of points but Freund was awarded the title on the basis of higher number of victories during the season (9 for Freund and 3 for Prevc).^[2] Prevc defended the Ski flying title and Germany won the Nations cup.

In ladies' World cup Daniela Iraschko-Stolz won her first overall title and Austria won their first Nations cup.

Lower competitive circuits this season included the Grand Prix, Continental Cup and Alpen Cup.

World records

Date	Ski Jumper	Country	Hill	Round	Place	Meters	Yards	Feet
14 Feb 2015	Peter Prevc	Slovenia	Vikersundbakken HS 225 (night)	Final	Vikersund, Norway	250.0	273.4	820
15 Feb 2015	Dmitri Vassiliev	Russia	Vikersundbakken HS 225	Qualifying	Vikersund, Norway	254.0	277.8	833
15 Feb 2015	Anders Fannemel	Norway	Vikersundbakken HS 225	First	Vikersund, Norway	251.5	275.0	825

Season titles

Men (overall): Severin Freund  Ski Flying: Peter Prevc  Four Hills Tournament: Stefan Kraft  Ladies (overall): Daniela Iraschko-Stolz  Nations Cup (Men): Germany  Nations Cup (Ladies): Austria

Map of world cup hosts

All 25 locations hosting world cup events for men (21) and ladies (8) in this season. Events in Liberec were canceled.

Kuusamo/Ruka Engelberg Ob GaPa In Bis Holmenkollen Titisee Trondheim Lillehammer Klingenthal Kuopio Wisła Nizhny Tagil Hinzenbach Ljubno Vikersund Kulm Râșnov Lahti Zakopane Willingen Planica 2014–15 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup (Europe)

Nizhny Tagil Zaō Sapporo 2014–15 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup (Asia)

Four Hills Tournament

Calendar

Men

Num	Season	Date	Place	Hill	Size	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib	Ref.
840	1	23 November 2014	Klingenthal	Vogtland Arena HS140	LH	Roman Koudelka	Stefan Kraft	Andreas Wellinger	Roman Koudelka	[3]
841	2	28 November 2014	Kuusamo/Ruka	Rukatunturi HS142 (night)	LH	Simon Ammann	Daiki Ito	Noriaki Kasai	Simon Ammann	[4]
842	3	29 November 2014	Kuusamo/Ruka	Rukatunturi HS142 (night)	LH	Simon Ammann Noriaki Kasai		Severin Freund		[5]
843	4	6 December 2014	Lillehammer	Lysgårdsbakken HS138 (night)	LH	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Anders Fannemel	Michael Hayböck		[6]
844	5	7 December 2014^	Lillehammer	Lysgårdsbakken HS138	LH	Roman Koudelka	Peter Prevc	Michael Hayböck	Roman Koudelka	[7]
845	6	13 December 2014	Nizhny Tagil	Tramplin Stork HS134 (night)	LH	Anders Fannemel	Gregor Schlierenzauer	Severin Freund	Anders Fannemel	[8]
846	7	14 December 2014^	Nizhny Tagil	Tramplin Stork HS134 (night)	LH	Severin Freund	Anders Fannemel	Stefan Kraft		[9]
847	8	20 December 2014	Engelberg	Gross-Titlis-Schanze HS137	LH	Richard Freitag	Roman Koudelka	Michael Hayböck Jernej Damjan		[10]
848	9	21 December 2014	Engelberg	Gross-Titlis-Schanze HS137	LH	Roman Koudelka	Simon Ammann	Michael Hayböck		[11]
		28 December 2014	Oberstdorf	Schattenbergschanze HS137 (night)	LH	strong wind; postponed on next day[12]
849	10	29 December 2014[nb 1]	Oberstdorf	Schattenbergschanze HS137 (night)	LH	Stefan Kraft	Michael Hayböck	Peter Prevc	Michael Hayböck	[13]
850	11	1 January 2015	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Große Olympiaschanze HS140	LH	Anders Jacobsen	Simon Ammann	Peter Prevc		[14]
851	12	4 January 2015	Innsbruck	Bergiselschanze HS130	LH	Richard Freitag	Stefan Kraft	Simon Ammann Noriaki Kasai		[15]
852	13	6 January 2015	Bischofshofen	Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze HS140 (night)	LH	Michael Hayböck	Noriaki Kasai	Stefan Kraft		[16]
63rd Four Hills Tournament Overall (29 December 2014 – 6 January 2015)[17]						Stefan Kraft	Michael Hayböck	Peter Prevc
853	14	10 January 2015	Tauplitz/Bad Mitterndorf	Kulm HS225	FH	Severin Freund	Stefan Kraft	Jurij Tepeš	Michael Hayböck	[18]
		11 January 2015	Tauplitz/Bad Mitterndorf	Kulm HS225	FH	strong wind
854	15	15 January 2015^	Wisła	Malinka HS134 (night)	LH	Stefan Kraft	Peter Prevc	Severin Freund	Stefan Kraft	[19]
855	16	18 January 2015	Zakopane	Wielka Krokiew HS134	LH	Kamil Stoch	Stefan Kraft	Severin Freund		[20]
856	17	24 January 2015	Sapporo	Ōkurayama HS134 (night)	LH	Peter Prevc	Stefan Kraft	Roman Koudelka		[21]
857	18	25 January 2015	Sapporo	Ōkurayama HS134	LH	Roman Koudelka	Kamil Stoch	Peter Prevc		[22]
858	19	30 January 2015	Willingen	Mühlenkopfschanze HS145 (night)	LH	Kamil Stoch	Peter Prevc	Severin Freund		[23]
859	20	1 February 2015	Willingen	Mühlenkopfschanze HS145	LH	Severin Freund	Rune Velta	Roman Koudelka		[24]
		7 February 2015	Liberec	Ještěd "A" HS134 (night)	LH	financial and TV problems; rescheduled to Titisee-Neustadt[25]
		8 February 2015	Liberec	Ještěd "A" HS134	LH
860	21	7 February 2015[nb 2]	Titisee-Neustadt	Hochfirstschanze HS142	LH	Severin Freund	Stefan Kraft	Peter Prevc	Stefan Kraft	[26]
861	22	8 February 2015[nb 3]	Titisee-Neustadt	Hochfirstschanze HS142	LH	Anders Fannemel	Kamil Stoch	Roman Koudelka		[27]
862	23	14 February 2015	Vikersund	Vikersundbakken HS225 (night)	FH	Peter Prevc	Anders Fannemel	Noriaki Kasai	Peter Prevc	[28]
863	24	15 February 2015	Vikersund	Vikersundbakken HS225	FH	Severin Freund	Anders Fannemel	Johann André Forfang		[29]
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2015
864	25	8 March 2015	Lahti	Salpausselkä HS130	LH	Stefan Kraft	Severin Freund	Anders Fannemel	Peter Prevc	[30]
		10 March 2015	Kuopio	Puijo HS127 (night)	LH	strong wind; rescheduled to normal hill[31]
865	26	10 March 2015^ [nb 4]	Kuopio	Puijo HS100 (night)	NH	Severin Freund	Anders Bardal	Stefan Kraft Simon Ammann	Stefan Kraft	[32]
866	27	12 March 2015	Trondheim	Granåsen HS140 (night)	LH	Severin Freund	Peter Prevc	Rune Velta	Severin Freund	[33]
867	28	14 March 2015	Oslo	Holmenkollbakken HS134 (night)	LH	Severin Freund	Peter Prevc	Rune Velta		[34]
868	29	15 March 2015	Oslo	Holmenkollbakken HS134	LH	Severin Freund	Noriaki Kasai	Peter Prevc Kamil Stoch		[35]
869	30	20 March 2015	Planica	Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS225	FH	Peter Prevc	Jurij Tepeš	Stefan Kraft		[36]
870	31	22 March 2015	Planica	Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS225	FH	Jurij Tepeš	Peter Prevc	Rune Velta		[37]

^ Only single-round competitions were held in Lillehammer, Nizhny Tagil, Wisła and Kuopio. The second round in each was cancelled due to strong wind.

Ladies

Num	Season	Date	Place	Hill	Size	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib	Ref.
48	1	5 December 2014	Lillehammer	Lysgårdsbakken HS100 (night)	NH	Špela Rogelj	Daniela Iraschko-Stolz	Sara Takanashi	Špela Rogelj	[38]
49	2	10 January 2015	Sapporo	Miyanomori HS100	NH	Sara Takanashi	Daniela Iraschko-Stolz	Špela Rogelj	Špela Rogelj Sara Takanashi Daniela Iraschko-Stolz	[39]
50	3	11 January 2015	Sapporo	Miyanomori HS100	NH	Sara Takanashi	Carina Vogt	Chiara Hölzl	Sara Takanashi	[40]
		17 January 2015	Zaō	Yamagata HS100	NH	strong wind; postponed on next day[41]
		18 January 2015^ [nb 5]	Zaō	Yamagata HS100	NH	finally cancelled; strong wind and snow
51	4	18 January 2015^	Zaō	Yamagata HS100	NH	Carina Vogt	Irina Avvakumova	Špela Rogelj	Sara Takanashi	[42]
		23 January 2015	Oberstdorf	Schattenbergschanze HS 106	NH	planned to reschedule Zaō; not realized
52	5	24 January 2015	Oberstdorf	Schattenbergschanze HS106	NH	Daniela Iraschko-Stolz	Carina Vogt	Sara Takanashi	Sara Takanashi	[43]
53	6	25 January 2015	Oberstdorf	Schattenbergschanze HS106	NH	Daniela Iraschko-Stolz	Carina Vogt	Taylor Henrich	Daniela Iraschko-Stolz	[44]
54	7	31 January 2015	Hinzenbach	Aigner-Schanze HS94	NH	Daniela Iraschko-Stolz	Carina Vogt	Sara Takanashi		[45]
55	8	1 February 2015	Hinzenbach	Aigner-Schanze HS94	NH	Carina Vogt	Daniela Iraschko-Stolz	Špela Rogelj		[46]
56	9	7 February 2015	Râșnov	Trambulina Valea Cărbunării HS100	NH	Daniela Iraschko-Stolz	Sara Takanashi	Maren Lundby		[47]
57	10	8 February 2015^	Râșnov	Trambulina Valea Cărbunării HS100	NH	Sara Takanashi	Nita Englund	Daniela Iraschko-Stolz		[48]
58	11	14 February 2015	Ljubno	Savina Ski Jumping Center HS95	NH	Sara Takanashi	Daniela Iraschko-Stolz	Sarah Hendrickson		[49]
59	12	15 February 2015	Ljubno	Savina Ski Jumping Center HS95	NH	Daniela Iraschko-Stolz Sara Takanashi		Sarah Hendrickson		[50]
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2015
60	13	13 March 2015	Oslo	Holmenkollbakken HS134	LH	Sara Takanashi	Sarah Hendrickson	Taylor Henrich	Daniela Iraschko-Stolz	[51]

^ Only one round competition in Zaō and Râșnov.

Men's team

Num	Season	Date	Place	Hill	Size	Winner	Second	Third	Yellow bib	Ref.
71	1	22 November 2014	Klingenthal	Vogtland Arena HS140 (night)	LH	Germany Markus Eisenbichler Richard Freitag Andreas Wellinger Severin Freund	Japan Reruhi Shimizu Daiki Ito Noriaki Kasai Taku Takeuchi	Norway Rune Velta Anders Jacobsen Anders Fannemel Anders Bardal	Germany	[52]
72	2	17 January 2015	Zakopane	Wielka Krokiew HS134 (night)	LH	Germany Michael Neumayer Marinus Kraus Richard Freitag Severin Freund	Austria Michael Hayböck Gregor Schlierenzauer Thomas Diethart Stefan Kraft	Slovenia Jurij Tepeš Nejc Dežman Jernej Damjan Peter Prevc		[53]
73	3	31 January 2015	Willingen	Mühlenkopfschanze HS145 (night)	LH	Slovenia Jurij Tepeš Nejc Dežman Jernej Damjan Peter Prevc	Germany Markus Eisenbichler Marinus Kraus Richard Freitag Severin Freund	Norway Tom Hilde Anders Jacobsen Anders Fannemel Rune Velta		[54]
74	4	7 March 2015	Lahti	Salpausselkä HS130 (night)	LH	Norway Anders Bardal Anders Jacobsen Anders Fannemel Rune Velta	Germany Richard Freitag Marinus Kraus Markus Eisenbichler Severin Freund	Japan Shōhei Tochimoto Taku Takeuchi Daiki Ito Noriaki Kasai		[55]
75	5	21 March 2015^	Planica	Letalnica bratov Gorišek HS225	FH	Slovenia Jurij Tepeš Anže Semenič Robert Kranjec Peter Prevc	Austria Stefan Kraft Michael Hayböck Manuel Poppinger Gregor Schlierenzauer	Norway Johann André Forfang Kenneth Gangnes Anders Fannemel Rune Velta		[56]

^ Only one round competition in Planica team event. Second round cancelled because of strong wind.

Men's standings

Overall Rank Points 1 Severin Freund (9 x winner) 1729 2 Peter Prevc (3 x winner) 1729 3 Stefan Kraft 1578 4 Anders Fannemel 1161 5 Michael Hayböck 1157 6 Noriaki Kasai 1137 7 Roman Koudelka 1113 8 Rune Velta 848 9 Kamil Stoch 820 10 Gregor Schlierenzauer 739 Standings after 31 events.

Nations Cup Rank Points 1  Germany 5533 2  Norway 5469 3  Austria 5193 4  Slovenia 4994 5  Japan 3501 6  Poland 2282 7  Czech Republic 1839 8   Switzerland 950 9  Finland 760 10  Russia 487 Standings after 36 events.

Prize money Rank CHF 1 Severin Freund 198,900 2 Peter Prevc 194,300 3 Stefan Kraft 188,300 4 Anders Fannemel 136,850 5 Michael Hayböck 129,950 6 Noriaki Kasai 122,200 7 Roman Koudelka 111,000 8 Rune Velta 105,700 9 Richard Freitag 88,200 10 Kamil Stoch 84,900 Standings after 36 events.

Four Hills Tournament Rank Points 1 Stefan Kraft 1106.7 2 Michael Hayböck 1100.7 3 Peter Prevc 1077.2 4 Noriaki Kasai 1074.8 5 Anders Jacobsen 1060.1 6 Richard Freitag 1056.8 7 Gregor Schlierenzauer 1050.2 8 Severin Freund 1022.5 9 Roman Koudelka 1013.4 10 Kamil Stoch 1009.4 Standings after 4 events.

Ski Flying Rank Points 1 Peter Prevc 345 2 Severin Freund 336 3 Jurij Tepeš 287 4 Noriaki Kasai 227 5 Rune Velta 200 6 Anders Fannemel 197 7 Stefan Kraft 190 8 Johann André Forfang 151 9 Michael Neumayer 107 10 Daiki Ito 99 Standings after 5 events.

Ladies' standings

Overall Rank Points 1 Daniela Iraschko-Stolz 1007 2 Sara Takanashi 973 3 Carina Vogt 672 4 Špela Rogelj 581 5 Yuki Ito 434 6 Maja Vtič 418 7 Eva Pinkelnig 408 8 Sarah Hendrickson 399 9 Jacqueline Seifriedsberger 370 10 Nita Englund 332 Standings after 13 events.

Nations Cup Rank Points 1  Austria 1970 2  Japan 1638 3  Germany 1481 4  Slovenia 1337 5  United States 1013 6  Norway 659 7  Russia 490 8  France 368 9  Canada 230 10  Finland 121 Standings after 13 events.

Prize money Rank CHF 1 Daniela Iraschko-Stolz 29,910 2 Sara Takanashi 28,890 3 Carina Vogt 20,160 4 Špela Rogelj 17,430 5 Yuki Ito 13,020 6 Maja Vtič 12,540 7 Eva Pinkelnig 12,240 8 Sarah Hendrickson 11,940 9 Jacqueline Seifriedsberger 10,890 10 Nita Englund 9,495 Standings after 13 events.

Achievements

First World Cup career victory

• Roman Koudelka (25), in his 9th season – the WC 1 in Klingenthal;^[57] first podium was 2010-11 WC 13 in Harrachov
• Špela Rogelj (20), in her 4th season – the WC 1 in Lillehammer
• Anders Fannemel (23), in his 5th season – the WC 6 in Nizhny Tagil; first podium was 2012-13 WC 2 in Lillehammer
• Stefan Kraft (21), in his 4th season – the WC 10 in Oberstdorf; first podium was 2012-13 WC 11 in Bischofshofen
• Michael Hayböck (23), in his 6th season – the WC 13 in Bischofshofen; first podium was 2013-14 WC 15 in Wisla
• Carina Vogt (22), in her 4th season – the WC 4 in Zaō; first podium was 2012-13 WC 11 in Zaō

First World Cup podium

• Špela Rogelj (20), in her 4th season
• Chiara Hölzl (17), in her 3rd season - no. 3 in the WC 3 in Sapporo
• Taylor Henrich (19), in her 4th season - no. 3 in the WC 6 in Oberstdorf
• Johann André Forfang (19), in his 1st season - no. 3 in the WC 24 in Vikersund

Victory in this World Cup (in brackets victory for all time)

• Severin Freund - 9 (18) first place
• Sara Takanashi - 6 (30) first place
• Daniela Iraschko-Stolz - 5 (10) first place
• Roman Koudelka - 4 (4) first place
• Peter Prevc - 3 (6) first place
• Stefan Kraft - 3 (3) first place
• Simon Ammann - 2 (23) first place
• Kamil Stoch - 2 (15) first place
• Richard Freitag - 2 (5) first place
• Carina Vogt - 2 (2) first place
• Anders Fannemel - 2 (2) first place
• Gregor Schlierenzauer - 1 (53) first place
• Noriaki Kasai - 1 (17) first place
• Anders Jacobsen - 1 (10) first place
• Jurij Tepeš - 1 (2) first place
• Špela Rogelj - 1 (1) first place
• Michael Hayböck - 1 (1) first place

Footnotes

References