Daniela Iraschko-Stolz Explained

Daniela Iraschko-Stolz
Nationality:Austria
Birth Date:21 November 1983
Birth Place:Eisenerz, Austria
Height:1.64 m
Club:WSV Eisenerz
Personalbest:200m (700feet) (656 ft)
Kulm, 29 January 2003
Seasons:2012–present
Wins:16
Totalpodiums:53
Teamwins:3
Teampodiums:7
Individual Starts:136
Team Starts:8
Wcoveralls:1 (2015)
Updated:13 March 2022
Daniela Iraschko-Stolz
Birth Date:21 November 1983
Birth Place:Eisenerz, Austria
Height:1.64 m
Position:Offensive midfielder and forward
Years1:1993–2003
Clubs1:WSV Eisenerz
Years2:2003–2006
Clubs2:Innsbrucker AC
Years3:2006–2017
Clubs3:Wacker Innsbruck
Club-Update:17 December 2022

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 200m (700feet), and was the first woman to reach 200 m.[1]

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.[2] 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,[3] 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 competition at the Winter Olympics in Sochi.[4]

At the Nordic World Ski Championship 2015 in Falun, she won a bronze medal in the normal hill competition.[5] 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.

Football

Iraschko started playing association football at a young age[6] 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.[7] [8] 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.[9]

Honours and statistics

Ski Jumping World Cup

Standings

 Season Overall
scope=row align=center2011/12align=center bgcolor=silverN/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
scope=row align=center2012/1310 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
scope=row align=center2013/145 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
scope=row align=center2014/15align=center bgcolor=#D4AF37N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
scope=row align=center2015/16align=center bgcolor=silverN/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
scope=row align=center2016/176 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
scope=row align=center2017/187 N/A N/A N/A N/A
scope=row align=center2018/198 N/A N/A 5 4
scope=row align=center2019/206 N/A N/A N/A 9 N/A
scope=row align=center2020/215 N/A N/A N/A N/A 5
scope=row align=center2021/2214 6 N/A N/A

Wins

No.SeasonDateLocationHillSize
scope=row style="text-align:center;"14 February 2012   Aigner-Schanze HS94 NH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"25 February 2012   Aigner-Schanze HS94 NH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"39 December 2012   RusSki Gorki HS106 NH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"425 January 2012   Normal hill HS104 NH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"526 January 2012   Normal hill HS104 NH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"624 January 2015   Schattenbergschanze HS106 NH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"725 January 2015   Schattenbergschanze HS106 NH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"831 January 2015   Aigner-Schanze HS94 NH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"97 February 2015   Trambulina Valea Cărbunării HS100 NH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"1015 February 2015   Savina Ski Jumping Center HS95 NH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"1112 December 2015   Tramplin Stork HS97 NH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"1214 February 2016   Savina Ski Jumping Center HS95 NH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"1328 January 2018   Savina Ski Jumping Center HS94 NH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"14align=center rowspan=312 January 2019   Ōkurayama HS137 LH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"1518 January 2019   Yamagata HS102 NH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"1610 March 2019   Holmenkollbakken HS134 LH

Austrian football

With Wacker Innsbruck:

Personal life

She married her partner in 2013.[10]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2021-04-18 . FIS decision not to add women's ski flying "unbelievable", says Lundby . 2024-04-09 . www.insidethegames.biz.
  2. Web site: Hopp Berkutschi.com - Hoppstjerner - Iraschko-Stolz, Daniela . 2024-04-09 . berkutschi.com.
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/20070927125542/http://www.skihopp.no/?show=les&id=279 Første kvinne passerte 200m i Kulm
  4. Web site: Middleton . Josh . 2014-02-12 . Lesbian Daniela Iraschko-Stolz Wins Medal in Ski-Jumping . 2024-04-09 . Philadelphia Magazine . en-US.
  5. Web site: 2019-02-27 . Nordische WM: Skispringen: Daniela Iraschko-Stolz holt Bronze . 2024-04-09 . www.kleinezeitung.at . de.
  6. Web site: Fußball: Iraschko-Stolz hätte sich Nationalteam-Karriere zugetraut. 4 July 2017.
  7. Web site: Daniela Iraschko-Stolz.
  8. Web site: Homosexuelle Iraschko-Stolz im Fokus. 6 October 2013.
  9. Web site: HOME Meinewebsite.
  10. Michael Shields (29 January 2014) Ski jumping-Austria's Iraschko dreams of Olympic flight, Reuters