Benkovič started with his sport career at the relatively advanced age of eleven, when he first participated in ski jumping in 1997.

His biggest success came at the 2005 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf, where he won the individual normal hill on 19 February 2005, making him the second Slovenian to 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 Primož Peterka, Jure Bogataj and Jernej Damjan.

From 2005 to 2007, Benkovič held the Slovenian national distance record of 226 metres, set in Planica.

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