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Slovenia win Olympic silver in ski-jumping team event

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Team Slovenia celebrate after placing second in the Men's Team Ski Jumping Large Hill final at the Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Centre at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games, Zhangjiakou, China, 14 February 2022. (Photo: EPA-EFE/Chritian Bruna)

By: J.S., STA

The Slovenian men’s ski-jumping team, made up of Lovro Kos, Cene Prevc, Timi Zajc and Peter Prevc, won silver at the Olympics for Slovenia’s seventh medal at the Beijing Games.

This is Slovenia’s fourth medal in ski-jumping at the Games after the mixed team won gold and Urša Bogataj won gold and Nika Križnar bronze in the women’s individual event. Slovenia were in the lead after the first round, but were pipped to gold by Austria by 8.3 points. Bronze went to Germany.

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