Ema KLINEC

2 Jul 1998
23
Female
KRANJ
 
Slovenia
POLJANE NAD SKOFJO LOKO
 
Slovenia

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
SJP Ski Jumping Women's Normal Hill Individual 5

Schedule

Start Time Location Event Status
Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre
Finished
Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre
Finished
Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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Historical Results

Olympic Games
RankEventYearLocation
14Normal Hill Individual2018PyeongChang, KOR
Youth Olympic Games
RankEventYearLocationResult
1Normal Hill, Team2016Lillehammer, NOR709.5
1Normal Hill, Individual2016Lillehammer, NOR249.3
4Cross-Country Skiing / Ski Jumping / Nordic Combined Team2016Lillehammer, NOR
World Championship
RankEventYearLocationResult
1Normal Hill2021Oberstdorf, GER279.6
2Normal Hill Team2021Oberstdorf, GER957.9
4Normal Hill Team2021Oberstdorf, GER954.8
4Normal Hill Team2017Lahti, FIN961.4
5Normal Hill2017Lahti, FIN245.8
6Large Hill2021Oberstdorf, GER273.3
World Cup Rankings Overview
SeasonOverall
2021/20224
2020/20216
2019/20208
2018/201924
Best Performance per Season in World Cup Events from 2018/2019
SeasonNormal HillLarge HillNormal Hill TeamLarge Hill Team
2021/20221 x 1st1 x 3rd1 x 1st
2020/20212 x 2nd1 x 3rd1 x 1st
2019/20201 x 6th1 x 2nd1 x 2nd
2018/20192 x 3rd1 x 16th
Ten Best World Cup Performances in Current Season
RankEventSeasonLocationResult
1Large Hill Team2021/2022Willingen, GER862.6
1Normal Hill2021/2022Nizhny Tagil, RUS235.1
2Normal Hill2021/2022Nizhny Tagil, RUS211.8
3Large Hill2021/2022Willingen, GER72.0
3Normal Hill2021/2022Ljubno, SLO257.2
4Normal Hill2021/2022Ljubno, SLO251.8
4Large Hill2021/2022Lillehammer, NOR252.7
5Large Hill2021/2022Willingen, GER96.0
5Normal Hill2021/2022Ramsau, AUT240.5
7Large Hill2021/2022Klingenthal, GER203.5
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Reading, writing, cooking, photography, rollerblading, football. (emaklinec.com)

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Athlete, Student

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English student.

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Brother, Gasper. Sister, Barbara.

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Slovenian, English, German

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SSK Norica Ziri

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Team: Zoran ZUPANCIC (SLO)
Personal: Jernej KUMER (SLO)
Ski: Fischer

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Brother Gasper Klinec (Ski jumping): Competed at the FIS level. Became a coach.

Sister Barbara Klinec (Ski jumping): Competed at the 2009 World Championships and two Junior World Championships (2009, 2014) winning team silver in 2014. Retired from competing, but still involved with ski jumping as a coach.

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2013 World Cup in Lillehammer (Normal hill - 7th)

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2019: Left knee surgery. (Athlete, Jul 2021)

January 2014: Tore her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in her right knee at the Alpen Cup in Predazzo, Italy. Underwent surgery and was out of competition for about 18 months. (Info 2018).

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2013

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Started at the age of six, and by age 12 she decided to pursue a professional career in ski jumping. (emaklinec.com)

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Influenced by older brother Gasper and older sister Barbara. (emaklinec.com)

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Season 2021/22 goal: To win an Olympic medal.
Career goal: To win the Crystal Globe. (Athlete, Jul 2021)

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Cross-country skier Petra Majdic (SLO), Vancouver 2010 Olympic individual sprint bronze medallist, two-time World Championships medallist (2007 silver, 2011 bronze).

Ski jumper Maren Lundby (NOR), PyeongChang 2018 Olympic champion, two-time world champion (2019, 2021), three-time overall World Cup winner, (Athlete, Jul 2021)

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Reads in her hotel before a competition. (Info 2018)

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Just be yourself. (Athlete, Jul 2021)

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February 2022: Bloudkovo award, highest sports award in Slovenia. (Facebook)

Milestones

OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES
Finished 5th in Beijing 2022, made her Olympic Winter Games debut at PyeongChang 2018, finishing 14th.

Two-time Winter Youth Olympic Games champion in 2016 (individual, team).

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
2021 World normal hill champion and team silver medallist (despite not having won on the World Cup circuit before). First Slovenian female ski jumping world champion (silver medal went to defending champion Norway's Maren Lundby, and bronze to Japan's Sara Takanashi who was 0.2 points behind).

Eight-time Junior World Championship medallist. In five appearances (2012-13, 2016-18), she has only three results off the podium, winning two individual medals (2017 and 2018 silver) and six with the team (four gold, one silver, one bronze).

WORLD CUP
During the 2017/18 season, she was a member of the Slovenian team that won the country's first medal in a woman's team event at a World Cup competition, by winning silver in 2018 in Zao (with Nika Kriznar, Spela Rogelj, and Ursa Bogataj).

Had 12 podium finishes (six seconds, six thirds) before she won her first World Cup in November 2021 in Nizhny Tagil. Claimed her maiden victory on the opening weekend of the season, leading a Slovenian one-two finish (Ursa Bogataj was second).

After her win she claimed another two podium finishes, so that she stands at 15 podium finishes now of which only one is a first place.
In the overall World Cup she is currently ranked fourth.

Legend
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Gold Medal Event
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