Ursa BOGATAJ

Slovenia

Ski Jumping

Date of Birth: 7 Mar 1995

Age: 26

Gender: Female

Place of birth: LJUBLJANA

Birth Country:

Slovenia

Residence: POLHAV GRADEC

Residence Country:

Slovenia

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Ski Jumping	Women's Normal Hill Individual	1
	Mixed Team SLO Slovenia	1

Schedule

Location	Event	Status
Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre	Women's Normal Hill Individual Trial Round for Competition	Finished
Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre	Women's Normal Hill Individual 1st Round	Finished
Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre	Women's Normal Hill Individual Final Round	Finished
Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre	Mixed Team Trial Round for Competition	Finished
Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre	Mixed Team 1st Round	Finished
Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre	Mixed Team Final Round	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

Historical Results

Olympic Games
Rank	Event	Year	Location
30	Normal Hill Individual	2018	PyeongChang, KOR

Youth Olympic Games
Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
2	Medium Hill, Team	2012	Innsbruck, AUT	610.5
3	Medium Hill, Individual	2012	Innsbruck, AUT	239.3

World Championship
Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
2	Normal Hill Team	2021	Oberstdorf, GER	957.9
4	Normal Hill Team	2019	Seefeld, AUT	930.8
4	Normal Hill Team	2019	Seefeld, AUT	828.1
6	Large Hill Team	2019	Seefeld, AUT	858.7
8	Normal Hill	2019	Seefeld, AUT	231.7
8	Normal Hill Team	2013	Predazzo, ITA	920.0
11	Large Hill	2021	Oberstdorf, GER	240.6
13	Normal Hill	2021	Oberstdorf, GER	235.9
17	Normal Hill	2013	Predazzo, ITA	195.7

World Cup Rankings Overview
Season	Overall
2021/2022	3
2020/2021	16
2019/2020	31
2018/2019	11

Best Performance per Season in World Cup Events from 2018/2019
Season	Normal Hill	Large Hill	Normal Hill Team	Large Hill Team
2021/2022	2 x 2nd	1 x 3rd		1 x 1st
2020/2021	1 x 4th	1 x 13th	1 x 1st
2019/2020		1 x 8th
2018/2019	1 x 3rd	1 x 3rd	1 x 2nd

Ten Best World Cup Performances in Current Season
Rank	Event	Season	Location	Result
1	Large Hill Team	2021/2022	Willingen, GER	862.6
2	Normal Hill	2021/2022	Nizhny Tagil, RUS	227.0
2	Normal Hill	2021/2022	Ljubno, SLO	261.8
3	Large Hill	2021/2022	Klingenthal, GER	237.5
3	Normal Hill	2021/2022	Ramsau, AUT	253.3
3	Normal Hill	2021/2022	Lillehammer, NOR	272.3
4	Normal Hill	2021/2022	Nizhny Tagil, RUS	206.9
4	Normal Hill	2021/2022	Ljubno, SLO	249.6
5	Large Hill	2021/2022	Klingenthal, GER	229.6
6	Large Hill	2021/2022	Willingen, GER	91.2

Hobbies:

Drawing, hiking, volleyball. (Athlete, Jul 2021)

Occupation:

Athlete, Student

Education:

Studying to become a coach. Will join the police force. (Athlete, Jul 2021)

Family:

One brother. One sister.

Languages spoken:

Slovenian, English

Club name:

SSK Ilirija

Coach:

Team: Zoran Zupancic (SLO)
Personal: Ziga Mandl (SLO)
Ski: Fischer

Sporting relatives:

Father (Ski jumping).

Brother (Ski jumping): Is now a youth coach. (Athlete, Jul 2021)

Debut:

2009 Continental Cup in Dobbiaco (Normal hill - 29th)
2011 World Cup in Lillehammer (Normall hill - 20th)

Injuries:

2019: Knee injury which caused her to lose the entire season of 2019/20, now "struggling to regain confidence, even after the first place in the Summer Grand Prix in Wisla". (Athlete, Jul 2021)

National team:

2009

Start:

Followed her father into the sport, first starting at age 11. First tried ski jumping with Alpine skiing skis. (athlete, Jul 2021)

Reason:

Father was also a ski jumper.

Ambition:

Season 2021/22 goal: Podium finishes.
Career goal: Be a good ski jumper and finish studies at the faculty of sport. (Athlete, Jul 2021)

Hero:

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

Award:

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

General Interest

WORLD CUP PIONEER
Has competed in the World Cup for women since its establishment in the 2011/12 season.

DOUBLE MEDALLISTS OWG 2022
With two gold medals she became one of six ski jumpers (three of them from Slovenia) who won two medals in Beijing 2022. The others are Peter PREVC (SLO, gold and silver), Ryoyu KOBAYASHI (JPN, gold and silver), Manuel FETTNER (AUT, gold and silver), Nika KRIZNAR (SLO, gold and bronze), and Karl GEIGER (GER, two bronze). She is the only one with two gold.

Milestones

OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES
Olympic normal hill champion 2022 and Olympic mixed team champion 2022.
Made her Olympic Winter Games debut at PyeongChang 2018 (30th). Like Carina Vogt (GER) in 2014, she became Olympic champion 2022 without having won a World Cup before.
With two gold medals she became the most successful ski jumper, male or female, in the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games.

Two-time Winter Youth Olympic Games medallist in 2012 (individual bronze, team silver).

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
2021 World Championship team silver medallist behind Austria (with Nika Kriznar, Spela Rogelj, Ema Klinec). In three appearances (2013, 2019, 2021), her best individual result is eighth in 2019.

In five Junior World Championship appearances (2011-15), she has a full set of medals, all in team events (2013 gold, 2014 silver, 2012 bronze).
Individually, she just missed the podium finishing fourth (2015), fifth (2013), and sixth (2014).

WORLD CUP
The winter season of 2021/22 will be her 10th on the World Cup tour, her best being 2017/18 when she finished overall in ninth.

During the 2017/18 season, she was part of the Slovenia team that won the country's first medal (silver) in a ladies team event at a World Cup in 2018 (Zao, Japan), with Nika Kriznar, Spela Rogelj, and Ema Klinec.

SEASON 2021/22
Having her best career season so far, winner of the Summer Grand Prix 2021 overall ranking, finishing first four times, and second twice.
In winter all her results were top seven, finishing on the podium five times. Now stands at a total of seven podium results, five third places and two second places, but still waiting for her first World Cup win. Best season results are two second places in Nizhny Tagil and Ljubno (both normal hill).
In the overall World Cup she is currently ranked third, behind Marita Kramer (AUT) and Katharina Althaus (GER).

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Legend

:: Gold
:: Gold Medal Event

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