2024-25 Ski Jumping World Cup season preview, full schedule, and how to watch live
Defending champions Stefan Kraft and Nika Prevc are out to retain their crystal globes in the last full ski jumping season before the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics
Ski Jumping
The ski jumping elite season gets underway, with the opening stop of the 2024–25 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup (22 November 2024 - 30 March 2025).
Ten nations will host the best ski jumpers in the world as they face daunting heights to be crowned world champions ahead of the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026.
The first stage of the new season will take place in Lillehammer, the Norwegian town that hosted the 1994 Winter Games, for both men and women.
Before the campaign comes to a conclusion in March 2025, it will pause for the Nordic World Ski Championships, to be held across February and March.
Here are the key things you need to know about the new season of the Ski Jumping World Cup.
2024-25 Ski Jumping World Cup – format
Competition in each of the World Cup stops is split into men’s, women’s, team, and mixed team. Points are awarded at different rates to each position in each race, ranging from 100 points for individual winner and 400 for victorious teams.
There are 29 competitions in the men’s calendar and three fewer for the women. Three mixed events will also take place throughout the World Cup campaign.
Along with the Nordic World Ski Championships break, the World Cup features breaks for four multi-stage events.
They start with the coveted Four Hills Tournament, which takes place from 29 December 2024 to 6 January 2025 in Germany and Austria.
Stefan Kraft of Austria is the defending men's Ski Jumping World Cup men's overall champion.
The other three stage events are the Two Nights Tournament, Raw Air, and Planica7, which will be held across the winter season.
The full season schedule is available to view here.
2024-25 Ski Jumping World Cup - key names
The defending champions in the men’s and women’s events are out to defend their titles, as men’s champion Stefan Kraft chases a fourth crystal globe on the hill.
Austrian jumper Kraft secured an astonishing 13 wins last season en route to his third World Cup title, in a year in which he also became the all-time leading podium finisher in World Cup ski jumping history.
His sternest competition will come from Beijing 2022 normal hill champion, Kobayashi Ryōyū of Japan.
Kobayashi is no stranger to breaking ski jumping records: he holds the Japanese national record, the third longest official jump in the world and an unofficial record of 291m.
In the women’s event, the one to watch is 19-year-old Slovenian starlet Nika Prevc. The brother of four-time Olympic medallist Peter Prevc, she stunned the competition by winning her maiden World Cup title in 2024.
Norway’s Eirin Maria Kvandal has been working her way up the overall rankings, and last season she earned 10 podiums including three victories.
2024-25 Ski Jumping World Cup – how to watch live
Eurosport hold the rights for the Ski Jumping World Cup across Europe and Asia, while in the US it will be shown via Ski and Snowboard Live.
Canadian fans can watch on CBC-SRC, and in Latin America, ESPN will broadcast the World Cup races.