The past 20 years of the Ski Jumping World Cup

Did you know, or better, did you still know that ...
only one German won the overall title in the Ski Jumping World Cup?
There's been a Ski Jumping World Cup for 40 years now and we took a closer look at the past 20. 
In doing so, we collected some interesting facts. Let's go on a little trip down memory lane.

Severin Freund claimed the title in 2014/15 in a nail-biter, he scored the same amount of points as Slovenia's Peter Prevc (both 1729 points), but Freund took one more individual win during this season. Report from March 22nd, 2015

The most successful nations when it comes to overall World Cup winners are Poland and Austria, with six titles each over the course of the past 20 years.

Six overall World Cup titles for Poland: 4 x Adam Malysz (2000/2001, 2001/2002, 2002/2003, 2006/2007) and 2 x Kamil Stoch (2013/2014, 2017/2018).

Six overall World Cup titles for Austria: 2 x Stefan Kraft (2016/2017, 2019/2020), 2 x Gregor Schlierenzauer (2008/2009, 2012/2013) and 2 x Thomas Morgenstern (2007/2008, 2010/2011)

Two overall World Cup titles for Finland: Janne Ahonen (2003/2004, 2004/2005)

One for Norway: Anders Bardal (2011/2012)
One for Switzerland: Simon Ammann (2009/2010)
One for Slovenia: Peter Prevc (2015/2016)
One for Japan: Ryoyu Kobayashi (2018/2019)
One for the Czech Republic: Jakub Janda (2005/2006)
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Austria's Gregor Schlierenzauer is of course the athlete with the most individual wins in the past 20 years: Schlierenzauer won 53 World Cup competitions so far. The 30-year-old claimed his first win on December 3rd, 2006 in Lillehammer (NOR), his most recent one on December 6th, 2014, also in Lillehammer.

With his 53 wins, Schlierenzauer leads the all-time ranking ahead of Finland's Matti Nykaenen (46 wins) and Poland's Adam Malysz (39 wins).
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Simon Ammann is the king of World Cup points.

When all the World Cup points scored by an athlete over the past 20 years are added up, then one is on top of the list who probably not many expected there: Switzerland's Simon Ammann. The 4-time Olympic champion scored a total of 12569 World Cup points, Gregor Schlierenzauer follows in second with 11906 points, Adam Malysz is third with 11352 points.
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Athletes who won in the past 20 years: Some well-known names are among those who won exactly one World Cup competition since the 2000/01 season:

Eisenbichler, Markus (GER)
Gangnes, Kenneth (NOR)
Liegl, Florian (AUT)
Stjernen, Andreas (NOR)
Leyhe, Stephan (GER)
Zajc, Timi (SLO)
Evensen, Johan Remen (NOR)
Larinto, Ville (FIN)
Bystoel, Lars (NOR)
Kiuru, Tami (FIN)
Klimov, Evgeniy (RUS)
Nagiller, Christian (AUT)
Zonta, Peter (SLO)
Ziobro, Jan (POL)
Hocke, Stephan (GER)
Kobayashi, Junshiro (JPN)
Biegun, Krzysztof (POL)
Hvala, Jaka (SLO)
Koivuranta, Anssi (FIN)
Lappi, Arttu (FIN)
Semenic, Anze (SLO)
Yumoto, Fumihisa (JPN)
Urbanc, Rok (SLO)

And then there are those, who already won World Cups before that time span:
Funaki, Kazuyoshi (JPN) (15 World Cup wins, one after the 1999/2000 season,on Feb. 5th, 2005, in Sapporo)
Okabe, Takanobu (JPN) (5 World Cup wins, one after the 1999/2000 season, on March 10th, 2009, in Kuopio)
Kantee, Ville (FIN) (2 World Cup wins, one after the 1999/2000, on Feb. 3rd, 2001, in Willingen)

About some, one might think: He has only won once? Is that true? Or: He really won a World Cup? Is that true? It is. Some of the athletes listed above will probably claim some more wins during their careers.
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In the Nation's Cup, where all the points scored by athletes of one nation in individual and team competitions are added up, Austria dominates with a total of 11 wins.

Austria 11 x (10 wins in a row from 2002 - 2013/2014)
Germany 3 x
Norway 3 x
Poland 2 x
Finland 1 x

Germany 2019/2020
Poland 2018/2019
Norway 2017/2018
Poland 2016/2017
Norway 2015/2016
Germany 2014/2015
Austria 2013/2014
Norway 2012/2013
Austria 2011/2012
Austria 2010/2011
Austria 2009/2010
Austria 2008/2009
Austria 2007/2008
Austria 2006/2007
Austria 2005/2006
Austria 2004/2005
Austria2003/2004
Austria 2002/2003
Germany 2001/2002
Finland 2000/2001