Nika Prevc clinches third World Cup title with record-equalling win
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Slovenia's Nika Prevc clinched a third straight women's ski jumping World Cup title in style with a record equalling 15th season victory in Finland on Thursday.
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Prevc soared 128.5 and 124.5 metres on the Lahti large hill for a comprehensive victory over Norwegian double Olympic champion Anna Odine Strøm and her last World Cup title rival Nozomi Maruyama of Japan.
The 20-year-old clinched the title with six events to spare as she leads Maruyama by 642 points and only 600 are still available.
Prevc is only the third ski jumper to win the World Cup in three successive seasons, joing Poland's Adam Malysz (2001-2003) and Norway's Maren Lundby (2018-2020).
She equalled the record of 15 season victories from Japan's Sara Takanashi and can already claim sole possession on Friday in another large hill event in Lahti - or in the remaining five events.
Celebrations for the Prevc family could continue on Friday in Lahti when her brother, Domen Prevc, has a first chance to clinch a first men's World Cup title and with it a rare grand slam of of holding all five major ski jumping titles at the same time.
He is the reigning ski jumping and ski flying world champion, won Olympic large hill gold last month and the Four Hills in January.
Only Finland's Janne Ahonen has managed to hold all these titles at the same time in the past, in the 1980s.
Prevc has ruled the season to top the World Cup 761 points ahead of Japan's Ryoyu Kobayashi with eight events left and a maximum 800 points available.
Success on Friday would give him an unprecedented seventh World Cup win in a row. If he wins both events in Lahti he will draw level with his brother, Peter Precv, on a record 15 season wins. If not in Lahti that record is still expected to fall because six more competitions follow.
Slovenia's winner Nika Prevc celebrates winning the women's HS130 Individual Ski Jumping Competition of the FIS Nordic World Cup in Lahti. Petri Korteniemi/Lehtikuva/dpa