Filip Flisar Explained

Filip Flisar
Disciplines:Ski cross
Birth Date:1987 9, df=yes
Birth Place:Maribor, SR Slovenia,
SFR Yugoslavia
Wcdebut:6 March 2008
Olympicteams:3 – (2010, 2014, 2018)
Worldsteams:5 – (2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019)
Worldsmedals:1
Worldsgolds:1
Wcseasons:20082020
Wcwins:7
Wcpodiums:16
Wctitles:1 – SX (2012)
Show-Medals:yes

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

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.[1] [2] 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

SeasonOverall
scope=row167 50 45
scope=row107 37
scope=row45 13
scope=row5
scope=row24 6
scope=row201 45
scope=row59 19
scope=row25 5
scope=row22 4
scope=row91 20
scope=row77 18
scope=row140 31

Wins

No.SeasonDateLocationEvent
scope=row align=center1 11 January 2012 SX
scope=row align=center2 26 February 2012 SX
scope=row align=center3 10 March 2012 SX
scope=row align=center4 13 December 2012 SX
scope=row align=center5 13 February 2016 SX
scope=row align=center6 align=center rowspan=221 December 2016 SX
scope=row align=center7 22 December 2016 SX

References

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Filip Flisar, Freestyle Skiing . vancouver2010.com . 21 February 2010 . 21 February 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100221133958/http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-freestyle-skiing/athletes/filip-flisar_ath201925bs.html . dead .
  2. Web site: Filip Flisar. Sports Reference. 12 March 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131224111214/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fl/filip-flisar-1.html. 24 December 2013.
  3. Web site: Filip Flisar – 2012 season. fis-ski.com. 6 March 2017.
  4. Web site: Filip Flisar . sochi2014.com . 12 March 2014 . 12 March 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140312043402/http://www.sochi2014.com/en/athlete-filip-flisar . dead .
  5. Web site: Men's Ski Cross Finals . sochi2014.com . 12 March 2014 . 19 March 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140319032448/http://www.sochi2014.com/en/freestyle-skiing-men-s-ski-cross-finals . dead .
  6. Web site: Flisar and Limbacher take ski cross World Championship gold . Eurosport . 25 January 2015 .