Domen Prevc, the Slovenian ski jumper who last year snapped an 8-year-old world record held by Austrian great Stefan Kraft, won the 74th annual Four Hills Tournament on Jan. 6, securing his first-ever golden eagle trophy. 

Since the inaugural tournament in 1953, only three Slovenian jumpers have won the tour. Prevc's older brother, Peter, did it a decade earlier in 2016.

The most prestigious contest in ski jumping, the Four Hills Tournament comprises four World Cup events spread across Germany and Austria. The first-two events traditionally are held in Oberstdorf and Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Germany, followed by the third and fourth stops in Innsbruck and Bischofshofen, Austria.

With wins at the first two venues and a silver finish in Innsbruck, the 26-year-old Prevc entered the final stage far ahead of his opponents in the overall rankings, holding a convincing 41.4-point lead over Austria's Jan Hoerl, who was in 2nd overall. Prevc kicked off the Bischofsofen leg with the lead in the first round, jumping 138 meters (roughly 452.7 feet) and earning 150.4 points, but slipped to 2nd in the final round behind Austria's Daniel Tschofenig, whose 140.5-meter jump (460.9 feet) received a staggering grade of 157.4 points. Nonetheless, Prevc's lead from the first-three stages proved insurmountable, and he took the crown.

Hoerl and countryman Stephan Embacher finished 2nd and 3rd overall, respectively. 

Last season, Tschofenig became the first jumper born in the 21st century to win the tournament. He finished 7th in this year's competition.

This year's tour served as the last for Polish ski jumping legend and three-time Four Hills champion Kamil Stoch, who plans to retire following this season.

Stoch, 38, competed at every Olympics and world championships between 2005 and 2023. At the 2014 Sochi Games, he only became the third man to sweep both the normal and large hill events, and four years later, he defended his large hill title in PyeongChang to become the oldest Olympic ski jumping champion (30).

In his Four Hills debut, American Jason Colby landed in 19th at the stop in Oberstdorf and 9th in Innsbruck, making him the only U.S.-born jumper to crack the top 20 at this year's tournament. His results mark the continuation of a career-best season in which Colby, 19, has earned his first national title and secured the best finish for an American jumper at a World Cup event in over two decades. He now is ranked 25th in the World Cup standings. The next-highest-ranked American man is Kevin Bickner in 43rd.

The Four Hills Tournament does not include a women's event. Instead, women jumpers compete in the Two Nights Tour, which runs consecutively to Four Hills and takes place at the two German venues.

On this year's tour, Nika Prevc, Domen's 20-year-old sister, continued her complete domination of women's ski jumping with a third-straight win. She has led every competition since the Two Nights Tour was introduced during the 2023-24 season.

After winning the first stop in Garmisch-Partenkirchen by a 23.1-point margin, Prevc finished 4th in Oberstdorf, missing the podium by a narrow 0.7 points, but her strong lead from the first stage carried her through to a third-straight title.

During the 2024-25 World Cup season, Prevc topped the podium 15 times in individual events, secured her second-consecutive Crystal Globe, collected the most points of any woman ski jumper in one World Cup season and, the day before her 20th birthday, jumped a world record twice during training sessions. She also stands as the reigning world champion in both the normal and large hill, marking the first time a woman has claimed both titles at the same world championship.

The Two Nights Tour, like the Four Hills Tournament, uses a knock-out system in the first round of each stop. Jumpers are paired together, and the jumper with the highest score between the two after the knockout round advances to the second jump. In Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Josie Johnson became the first American woman to compete in the KO Duals. Paired with Prevc, she was knocked out and finished 24th.

With two personal-best World Cup finishes in Villach, Austria on Jan. 5 (16th) and Jan. 6 (15th), Johnson is the highest-ranked American woman on the World Cup circuit in 28th.

Next year, coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the Four Hills Tournament, a women's contest will be included in the program for the first time.

The 2025-26 Ski Jumping World Cup will continue with a women's event in Ljubno, Slovenia, Jan. 9-11. The men will compete next in Zakopane, Poland, Jan. 10-11.