Filip Flisar

Filip Flisar

Personal information
Born	(1987-09-28) 28 September 1987 (age 37) Maribor, SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia
Occupation	Alpine skier
Skiing career
Disciplines	Ski cross
World Cup debut	6 March 2008
Olympics
Teams	3 – (2010, 2014, 2018)
World Championships
Teams	5 – (2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019)
Medals	1 (1 gold)
World Cup
Seasons	2008–2020
Wins	7
Podiums	16
Discipline titles	1 – SX (2012)
Medal record Representing  Slovenia Freestyle skiing FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboard World Championships 2015 Kreischberg Ski cross X Games 2012 Aspen Ski cross

Filip Flisar (born 28 September 1987) is a retired Slovenian freestyle skier who competed in ski cross discipline.[1]

Career

Alpine skiing career

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

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

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

In 2012, at the Winter X Games XVI in Aspen, he achieved second place in the ski cross event.

2012: Ski Cross title

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

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

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

He achieved tenth place in men's four-cross at the 2016 World Championships in Val di Sole.

World Cup

Standings

Season	Overall	SX	HP
2008/09	167	50	45
2009/10	107	37	–
2010/11	45	13	–
2011/12	5		–
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

No.	Season	Date	Location	Event
1	2011/12	11 January 2012	Alpe d'Huez	SX
2		26 February 2012	Bischofswiesen	SX
3		10 March 2012	Grindelwald	SX
4	2012/13	13 December 2012	Telluride	SX
5	2015/16	13 February 2016	Idre Fjall	SX
6	2016/17	21 December 2016	Innichen	SX
7		22 December 2016		SX

References

General

• "Season-by-season rankings". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 6 March 2017.

Specific

1. "Filip Flisar". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 24 December 2013. Retrieved 12 March 2014.
2. "Filip Flisar, Freestyle Skiing". vancouver2010.com. Archived from the original on 21 February 2010. Retrieved 21 February 2010.
3. "Filip Flisar – 2012 season". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
4. "Filip Flisar". sochi2014.com. Archived from the original on 12 March 2014. Retrieved 12 March 2014.
5. "Men's Ski Cross Finals". sochi2014.com. Archived from the original on 19 March 2014. Retrieved 12 March 2014.
6. "Flisar and Limbacher take ski cross World Championship gold". Eurosport. Retrieved 25 January 2015.

External links

• Filip Flisar at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
• Filip Flisar at FIS (alpine)
• Filip Flisar at FIS (freestyle)
• Filip Flisar at Olympics.com
• Filip Flisar at Olympedia
• Filip Flisar at the X Games (archived)