Daniela Iraschko-Stolz ( Iraschko; born 21 November 1983) is an Austrian former 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. From 2003 to 2023 she held the women's ski flying world record of , and was the first woman to reach 200 m. She is considered a pioneer in the discipline of women's ski jumping having made her first jump at the age of 12 in the year 1995.
In football, she has played at the highest levels of the domestic women's game.
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. She has nine individual wins at the World Cup level 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,Første kvinne passerte 200m i Kulm Skihopp.no. 29 January 2003 a women's world record which stood until 2023.
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 competition at the Winter Olympics in Sochi.
At the Nordic World Ski Championship 2015 in Falun, she won a bronze medal in the normal hill competition. 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 competition.
She last competed in the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games & retired from the sport in 2023 at the age of 39.
Football Iraschko started playing association 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.
Her last match was in 2016 where she played as a striker for FC Wacker (FC Wacker Innsbruck).
Honours and statistics Ski Jumping World Cup Standings Season Overall2011/12 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A2012/1310 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A2013/145 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A2014/15 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A2015/16 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A2016/176 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A2017/187 N/A N/A — N/A N/A2018/198 N/A N/A 5 4 —2019/206 N/A N/A N/A 9 N/A2020/215 N/A N/A N/A N/A 52021/2214 6 N/A — N/A
Wins No. Season Date Location Hill Size12011/12 4 February 2012 Hinzenbach Aigner-Schanze HS94 NH25 February 2012 Hinzenbach Aigner-Schanze HS94 NH32012/13 9 December 2012 Sochi RusSki Gorki HS106 NH42013/14 25 January 2012 Planica Normal hill HS104 NH526 January 2012 Planica Normal hill HS104 NH62014/15 24 January 2015 Oberstdorf Schattenbergschanze HS106 NH725 January 2015 Oberstdorf Schattenbergschanze HS106 NH831 January 2015 Hinzenbach Aigner-Schanze HS94 NH97 February 2015 Râșnov Trambulina Valea Cărbunării HS100 NH1015 February 2015 Ljubno Savina Ski Jumping Center HS95 NH112015/16 12 December 2015 Nizhny Tagil Tramplin Stork HS97 NH1214 February 2016 Ljubno Savina Ski Jumping Center HS95 NH132017/18 28 January 2018 Ljubno Savina Ski Jumping Center HS94 NH142018/19 12 January 2019 Sapporo Ōkurayama HS137 LH1518 January 2019 Zaō Yamagata HS102 NH1610 March 2019 Oslo Holmenkollbakken HS134 LH
Austrian football With Wacker Innsbruck: 2x Austrian Cup finalist: 2009, 2012 3x Austrian Bundesliga runner-up: 2008, 2009, 2010
Personal life She married her partner in 2013.Michael Shields (29 January 2014) Ski jumping-Austria's Iraschko dreams of Olympic flight, Reuters
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