Maren Lundby

Maren Lundby
Lundby in Hinzenbach, 2017
Country Norway
Born 7 September 1994
Gjøvik, Norway
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Ski club Kolbu KK
Personal best 216.5 m (710 ft) Norwegian women national record
Vikersund, 19 March 2023
World Cup career
Seasons
Starts 148
Podiums 62
Wins 30
Overall titles 3 (2018, 2019, 2020)
Medal record
Women's ski jumping
Representing Norway
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2018 Pyeongchang Individual NH
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2019 Seefeld Individual NH
Gold medal – first place 2021 Oberstdorf Individual LH
Silver medal – second place 2015 Falun Mixed team NH
Silver medal – second place 2021 Oberstdorf Individual NH
Silver medal – second place 2021 Oberstdorf Mixed team NH
Silver medal – second place 2023 Planica Individual LH
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Seefeld Team NH
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Seefeld Mixed team NH
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Oberstdorf Team NH
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Planica Team NH
Junior World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Val di Fiemme Individual NH
Updated on 1 March 2023.

Maren Lundby (born 7 September 1994) is a retired Norwegian ski jumper. She is one of the most successful ski jumpers in the history of the sport, having won three consecutive World Cup overall titles (an all-time record shared with Adam Małysz), thirty individual World Cup competitions, and gold medals at the 2018 Winter Olympics and the 2019 and 2021 World Championships.

Lundby is also known as an advocate for gender equality in the sport. Because of her efforts, women are now allowed to jump on the large hill during the World Championships.

Ski jumping career

Lundby represents the Kolbu KK ski club. She made her debut in the Continental Cup, the highest level in women's ski jumping at the time, on 12 August 2007 with a 56th place in Bischofsgruen. At age 14, she made history as the first female ski jumper in a World Championship, when she jumped with bib number 1 at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec. On 6 September 2010, she made the first jump when the new Midtstubakken in Oslo was opened. She landed on 87 meters. 14 March 2019, Lundby won the first women's edition of Raw Air. 12 March 2020, Lundby won the second edition of Raw Air and also became the first woman to win the World Cup three years in a row. She is the first ski jumper to do so since Adam Małysz in 2001–2003. On 3 March 2021, Lundby became the first female world champion on the large hill.

In October 2021, Lundby withdrew from the 2022 Winter Olympics and said she had difficulties losing weight and did not feel she could perform at the top level.

She was awarded the Holmenkollen Medal in 2021.

Major tournament results

Olympics

Year Place NH
2014 Sochi 8
2018 Pyeongchang 1st place, gold medalist(s)

FIS World Nordic Ski Championships

Year Place NH LH Team NH Mixed NH
2009 Liberec 22 N/A N/A N/A
2011 Oslo 11 N/A N/A N/A
2013 Val di Fiemme 25 N/A N/A 4
2015 Falun 15 N/A N/A 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2017 Lahti 4 N/A N/A 5
2019 Seefeld 1st place, gold medalist(s) N/A 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2021 Oberstdorf 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2023 Planica 7 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) N/A

World Cup

Standings

Season Overall L3 RA BB
2011/12 26 N/A N/A N/A
2012/13 23 N/A N/A N/A
2013/14 7 N/A N/A N/A
2014/15 14 N/A N/A N/A
2015/16 6 N/A N/A N/A
2016/17 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) N/A N/A N/A
2017/18 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) N/A N/A
2018/19 1st place, gold medalist(s) 6 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2019/20 1st place, gold medalist(s) N/A 1st place, gold medalist(s) N/A
2020/21 8 N/A N/A —
2022/23 20 N/A 10 N/A

Individual wins

No. Season Date Location Hill Size
1 2016/17 10 December 2016   Nizhny Tagil Tramplin Stork HS100 (night) NH
2 15 January 2017   Sapporo Miyanomori HS100 NH
3 28 January 2017   Râșnov Trambulina Valea Cărbunării HS100 NH
4 11 February 2017   Ljubno Savina Ski Jumping Center HS95 NH
5 2017/18 1 December 2017   Lillehammer Lysgårdsbakken HS98 (night) NH
6 17 December 2017   Hinterzarten Rothaus-Schanze HS108 NH
7 13 January 2018   Sapporo Miyanomori HS100 NH
8 14 January 2018   Sapporo Miyanomori HS100 NH
9 19 January 2018   Zaō Yamagata HS102 (night) NH
10 20 January 2018   Zaō Yamagata HS102 (night) NH
11 27 January 2018   Ljubno Savina Ski Jumping Center HS94 NH
12 4 March 2018   Râșnov Trambulina Valea Cărbunării HS97 NH
13 11 March 2018   Oslo Holmenkollbakken HS134 LH
14 2018/19 13 January 2019   Sapporo Ōkurayama HS137 LH
15 20 January 2019   Zaō Yamagata HS102 (night) NH
16 26 January 2019   Râșnov Trambulina Valea Cărbunării HS97 NH
17 27 January 2019   Râșnov Trambulina Valea Cărbunării HS97 NH
18 2 February 2019   Hinzenbach Aigner-Schanze HS90 NH
19 3 February 2019   Hinzenbach Aigner-Schanze HS90 NH
20 8 February 2019   Ljubno Savina Ski Jumping Center HS94 NH
21 16 February 2019   Oberstdorf Schattenbergschanze HS137 LH
22 17 February 2019   Oberstdorf Schattenbergschanze HS137 LH
23 12 March 2019   Lillehammer Lysgårdsbakken HS140 LH
24 14 March 2019   Trondheim Granåsen HS138 LH
25 24 March 2019   Chaykovsky Snezhinka HS140 LH
26 2019/20 7 December 2019   Lillehammer Lysgårdsbakken HS140 LH
27 8 December 2019   Lillehammer Lysgårdsbakken HS140 LH
28 26 January 2020   Râșnov Trambulina Valea Cărbunării HS97 NH
29 23 February 2020   Ljubno Savina Ski Jumping Center HS94 NH
30 11 March 2020   Lillehammer Lysgårdsbakken HS140 LH