Nika Prevc continues to reach new heights in her rapid rise to the top of ski jumping, as the 19-year-old broke the women’s world record on Friday (14 March).
The Slovenian double world champion jumped a record 236m in the World Cup stage in Vikersund, Norway. Remarkably, she recorded the same distance in both the first and third training round of the competition.
Prevc achieved the feat just a day after securing her second consecutive World Cup crystal globe, thanks to her 12th victory of the season in Oslo, Norway.
The Scandinavian nation is proving to be happy hunting ground for the teenage sensation; at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Trondheim, Prevc collected two gold medals with the women’s normal hill and women’s large hill world titles.
She now becomes a world record holder on the eve of her 20th birthday, which she celebrates on 15 March.
Prevc has broken the record previously held by Norwegian ski jumper Silje Opseth, the three-time World Championship medallist, who jumped 230.5m on the same hill in Vikersund in March 2024.
The Kranj native flew at a speed of 101.8km/h, landing with an expression of pure shock as she writes another remarkable chapter in her career.