Primož Peterka

Primož Peterka is a Slovenian former ski jumper who competed from 1996 to 2011 and is counted among the most successful athletes in Slovenian sport. He won fifteen individual World Cup competitions, the overall World Cup title in 1996 to 97 and again in 1997 to 98, a Ski Flying World Cup title and the Four Hills Tournament, and on 9 February 1997 he became the first Slovenian to jump more than 200 metres, landing at 203 metres in Kulm. He took the bronze team medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and another team bronze at the 2005 World Championships in Oberstdorf, which made him the first Slovenian ski jumper to win medals at both the Olympics and the World Championships. He started on a small hill near his hometown of Moravče, joined the Triglav ski club in Kranj and retired after the 2010 to 11 season.