Rok Benkovič
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| Medal record | |||
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| Men's ski jumping | |||
| World Championships | |||
| Gold | 2005 Oberstdorf | Individual normal hill | |
| Bronze | 2005 Oberstdorf | Team normal hill | |
Rok Benkovič (born March 20, 1986 in Ljubljana) is a Slovenian ski jumper.
Benkovič started with his sport career at the relatively advanced age of eleven, when he first participated in ski jumping in 1997. In Sollefteå, Sweden, he won the silver medal at the Junior World Championship on February 6, 2003. His biggest success came at the 2005 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf, where he won the individual normal hill on February 19, 2005, making him the second Slovenianto win a gold medal after that of Franci Petek in 1991. The very next day, he won a bronze medal for the Slovenians in a team normal hill competition involving Primoz Peterka, Jure Bogataj and Jernej Damjan.
He also competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, finishing 10th in the team large hill, 29th in the individual large hill, and 49th in the individual normal hill.
Benkovič holds the Slovenian ski jumping record of 226m, set in Planica in 2005.
He lives in Kamnik and is a member of Mengeš ski club.
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| World champions in ski jumping individual normal hill |
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| 1962: Toralf Engan | 1966: Bjørn Wirkola | 1970: Gariy Napalkov | 1974: Hans-Georg Aschenbach | 1978: Matthias Buse | 1982: Armin Kogler | 1985: Jens Weissflog | 1987: Jiří Parma | 1989: Jens Weissflog | 1991: Heinz Kuttin | 1993: Masahiko Harada | 1995: Takanobu Okabe | 1997: Janne Ahonen | 1999: Kazuyoshi Funaki | 2001: Adam Małysz | 2003: Adam Małysz | 2005: Rok Benkovič |
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