Austrian ski jumper

Updated on 13 March 2022.

Daniela Iraschko-Stolz (née Iraschko; born 21 November 1983) is an Austrian 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. Since 2003 she has held the women's ski flying world record of 200:m (660:ft), and remains the only woman to reach that distance.

In football she has played at the highest levels of the domestic women's game.

Contents

• 1 Career
  • 1.1 Ski jumping
  • 1.2 Football
• 2 Honours and statistics
  • 2.1 Ski Jumping World Cup
    • 2.1.1 Standings
    • 2.1.2 Wins
  • 2.2 Austrian football
• 3 Personal life
• 4 References
• 5 External links

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. 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. At World Cup level, she has nine individual wins 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, 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 compe*ion at the Winter Olympics in Sochi.

At the Nordic World Ski Championship 2015 in Falun, she won a bronze medal in the normal hill compe*ion. 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 compe*ion.

Football

Iraschko started playing *ociation football at a young age 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. 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.

Honours and statistics

Ski Jumping World Cup

Standings

Wins

Austrian football

With Wacker Innsbruck:

• 2x Austrian Cup finalist: 2009, 2012
• 3x Austrian Bundesliga runner-up: 2008, 2009, 2010

Personal life

She married her lesbian partner in 2013.

References

External links

• Daniela Iraschko-Stolz at WorldFootball.net
• Daniela Iraschko-Stolz at FIS (ski jumping)
• Daniela Iraschko-Stolz at Olympics.com
• Daniela Iraschko-Stolz at Olympedia