Ema Klinec won the ski jumping event at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf, Germany yesteday, becoming the first Slovenian female ski jumping world champion.

The defending champion, Norwegian Maren Lundby, won silver. Japanese Sara Takanashi placed third.

A women's team event is scheduled in Oberstdorf today.

But there was another reason for celebration in the Slovenian camp yesterday as Anamarija Lampič won the cross-country sprint bronze.

She missed out on the silver medal by a mere 0.02 seconds. The gold medal went to Jonna Sundling of Sweden, who was followed by Maiken Caspersen Falla of Norway.

Lampič was last year’s Slovenian female athlete of the year.

She has also already been awarded the small crystal globe as the overall World Cup winner in the women's sprint discipline as the season has been cut short.