Club SK Branik Wins 4 Height 1.82 m World cup debut March 6, 2008 Seasons 2008–present Role Freestyle skier Medals 1 | Teams 3 – (2011, 2013, 2015) Name Filip Flisar Teams 2 – (2010, 2014) Podiums 9 Weight 97 kg Siblings Martin Flisar | |
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World snow day and me filip flisar
Filip Flisar (born 28 September 1987) is a Slovenian freestyle skier competing in ski cross discipline.
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- World snow day and me filip flisar
- Filip flisar prepares for red bull kronplatz cross 2013
- Alpine skiing career
- 2008 Freestyle skiing career
- 2010 First Olympics
- 2012 Winter X Games medal
- 2012 Ski Cross title
- 2014 Olympics
- 2015 Ski Cross World Champion
- 2016 Mountain bike racing career
- References
Filip flisar prepares for red bull kronplatz cross 2013
Alpine skiing career
He started as 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
He joined the FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup. His World Cup debut performance in 2007–08 FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup season was a ski cross competition on March 6, 2008 in Grindelwald, Switzerland. In the 2008–09 season he also competed in half-pipe 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. 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. 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.
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.
2016: Mountain bike racing career
He achieved tenth place in men's four-cross at the 2016 World Championships in Val di Sole.