Slovenia defends men's ski-jumping team world title

Slovenia wins its second consecutive title

Slovenia retained the men's team large-hill world title at the 2025 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Trondheim on 6 March. Lovro Kos, Domen Prevc, Timi Zajc and Anže Lanišek combined for 1080.8 points from eight scored jumps at Granåsen. Austria took silver with 1067.4 points, and host nation Norway won bronze with 1065.3.

The winning margin was 13.4 points over Austria and 15.5 over Norway. Silver and bronze were separated by 2.1 points. Slovenia had won this World Championships event for the first time in Planica in 2023, so its Trondheim result established a successful title defence across two editions held in different countries.

A four-man result on the large hill

The men's team event aggregated the scores of four athletes over two competition rounds. Every finalist's score combined eight jumps, placing the national result above any one athlete's individual ranking. The competition took place on Granåsen's HS138 large hill.

Austria fielded Daniel Tschofenig, Maximilian Ortner, Stefan Kraft and Jan Hörl. Norway's quartet was Johann André Forfang, Robin Pedersen, Kristoffer Eriksen Sundal and Marius Lindvik. Germany finished fourth with 1005.8 points, a 59.5-point deficit to the bronze-medal total. Its team comprised Karl Geiger, Stephan Leyhe, Philipp Raimund and Andreas Wellinger. Those line-ups distinguish this men's team event from the mixed-team competition held during the same championships.

The closing jumps and the final standings

FIS recorded Lindvik's final jump at 138.5 m, scoring 153.0 points. Hörl then produced 135.0 m, before Lanišek's final 138.0 m jump scored 151.4 points and completed Slovenia's winning total. These are recorded distances and scores from the race report; they do not establish a separate individual medal classification.

Japan finished fifth with 965.2 points and Poland sixth with 958.4. Finland was seventh on 905.2 and the United States eighth on 888.6. Japan's quartet included Ren Nikaidō, Yukiya Satō, Naoki Nakamura and Ryōyū Kobayashi. Poland competed with Aleksander Zniszczoł, Jakub Wolny, Paweł Wąsek and Dawid Kubacki. Switzerland, Kazakhstan and China occupied the remaining positions in the 11-team result table, with the last three countries contributing only the first round because they did not reach the final.

Three returning champions and one new teammate

Kos, Zajc and Lanišek had belonged to Slovenia's 2023 gold-medal team. Domen Prevc joined those returning champions in the 2025 line-up. The quartet's victory preserved the title without requiring an unchanged team, an important distinction when comparing national championship results across editions.

Austria's team contained the athletes occupying the first three places in the overall World Cup standings at that point: Tschofenig, Hörl and Kraft. Their silver therefore came in a championship field containing the season's leading individual competitors, while Slovenia earned the team result by the combined points of its four jumpers.

The men's team competition was held on 6 March, between the mixed-team large-hill contest and the final individual large-hill medal events. It awarded one national team title, with the four athletes sharing the gold-medal result. The World Championships classification supplies both the team order and the names of the competitors whose jumps produced it.