The defending champions from the previous season were
Kamil Stoch from Poland,
Peter Prevc from Slovenia as defending ski flying champion, and
Sara Takanashi from Japan.
February 2015 saw an improvement of the
world record in ski jumping distance. On 14 February, Peter Prevc set the new mark with 250 m (820 ft) in
Vikersund, Norway. His achievement was beaten the next day by
Anders Fannemel from Norway with 251 m (823 ft), which was the world record until March 2017.
Peter Prevc and
Jurij Tepeš became the sixth and seventh man in ski jumping history to achieve a "perfect jump", with all five judges awarding them top style marks (5x20). This took place in Planica on 20 March (Prevc) and 22 March (Tepeš).
Severin Freund became the World Cup winner for the first time. Freund and Prevc ended the season with the identical number of points but Freund was awarded the title on the basis of higher number of victories during the season (nine for Freund and three for Prevc).[2] Prevc defended the Ski flying title and Germany won the Nations cup.
In ladies' World cup
Daniela Iraschko-Stolz won her first overall title and Austria won their first Nations cup.
Peter Prevc is the runner up, also with 1729 points. He had only three wins while
Freund had nine, so
Freund was given the championship, and
Peter was given second.