Filip Flisar
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| Born | 28 September 1987 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Alpine skier | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Disciplines | Ski cross | ||||||||||||||||||||
| World Cup debut | 6 March 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Teams | 3 – (2010, 2014, 2018) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| World Championships | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Teams | 5 – (2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Medals | 1 (1 gold) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Seasons | 2008–2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Wins | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Podiums | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline titles | 1 – SX (2012) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Filip Flisar (born 28 September 1987) is a retired Slovenian freestyle skier who competed in ski cross discipline.[1]
Career
[edit | edit source]Alpine skiing career
[edit | edit source]Flisar started his career as an alpine skier in fast disciplines. He competed at two World Junior Alpine Skiing Championships and a couple of FIS Ski European Cup events, but had no notable success.
2008: Freestyle skiing career
[edit | edit source]Flisar joined the FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup in 2008. His World Cup debut performance in the 2007–08 season was a ski cross competition on 6 March 2008 in Grindelwald, Switzerland where he did not receive any points. In the 2008–09 season he also competed in his first and also the only half-pipe World Cup event.
2010: First Olympics
[edit | edit source]He represented Slovenia at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, where he competed in ski cross and finished in eighth place.[2][1] At the 2011 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships in Deer Valley, where he competed in men's ski cross, he finished in eleventh place.
2012: Winter X Games medal
[edit | edit source]In 2012, at the Winter X Games XVI in Aspen, he achieved second place in the ski cross event.
2012: Ski Cross title
[edit | edit source]On 11 January 2012 in Alpe d'Huez he won his first World Cup victory. He won a total of three World Cup races in that season.[3] In the 2011–12 season he won the discipline title in ski cross and was fifth in overall ranking.
2014: Olympics
[edit | edit source]In Sochi At 2014 Winter Olympics he competed in men's ski cross where he reached the semi-finals. In the small final he placed second, behind Egor Korotkov and ahead of Armin Niederer and Florian Eigler, thus ranking overall sixth in the competition.[4][5]
2015: Ski Cross World Champion
[edit | edit source]On 25 January 2015 he produced a stunning performance in the final of FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2015 ski cross and managed to climb from third to first place in the last few meters of the race. He won his and Slovenia's first ever gold medal at the World Championship in Freestyle skiing. He shared the podium with Jean-Frédéric Chapuis, defending World and Olympic Champion, who won the silver medal and Victor Öhling Norberg, who got bronze.[6]
2016: Mountain bike racing career
[edit | edit source]He achieved tenth place in men's four-cross at the 2016 World Championships in Val di Sole.
World Cup
[edit | edit source]Standings
[edit | edit source]| Season | Overall | SX | HP |
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| 2008/09 | 167 | 50 | 45 |
| 2009/10 | 107 | 37 | – |
| 2010/11 | 45 | 13 | – |
| 2011/12 | 5 | 1st place, gold medalist(s) | – |
| 2012/13 | 24 | 6 | – |
| 2013/14 | 201 | 45 | – |
| 2014/15 | 59 | 19 | – |
| 2015/16 | 25 | 5 | – |
| 2016/17 | 22 | 4 | – |
| 2017/18 | 91 | 20 | – |
| 2018/19 | 77 | 18 | – |
| 2019/20 | 140 | 31 | – |
Wins
[edit | edit source]| No. | Season | Date | Location | Event |
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| 1 | 2011/12 | 11 January 2012 | France Alpe d'Huez | SX |
| 2 | 26 February 2012 | Germany Bischofswiesen | SX | |
| 3 | 10 March 2012 | Switzerland Grindelwald | SX | |
| 4 | 2012/13 | 13 December 2012 | United States Telluride | SX |
| 5 | 2015/16 | 13 February 2016 | Sweden Idre Fjall | SX |
| 6 | 2016/17 | 21 December 2016 | Italy Innichen | SX |
| 7 | 22 December 2016 | SX |
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References
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External links
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- Filip Flisar at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
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