Filip Flisar (born 28 September 1987) is a retired Slovenian

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who competed in

ski cross Ski cross is a skiing competition which incorporates terrain features traditionally found in freestyle skiing with courses which include big-air jumps and high-banked turns. In spite of the fact that it is a timed racing event, it is often cons ...

discipline.

Career

Alpine skiing career

Flisar started his career as an

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in fast disciplines. He competed at two

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and a couple of FIS Ski European Cup events, but had no notable success.

2008: Freestyle skiing career

Flisar joined the

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in 2008. His World Cup debut performance in the 2007–08 season was a ski cross competition on 6 March 2008 in

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, Switzerland where he did not receive any points. In the 2008–09 season he also competed in his first and also the only

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World Cup event.

2010: First Olympics

He represented Slovenia at the

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, where he competed in

and finished in eighth place. At the 2011 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships in

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, where he competed in men's ski cross, he finished in eleventh place.

2012: Winter X Games medal

In 2012, at the

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, he achieved second place in the ski cross event.

2012: Ski Cross title

On 11 January 2012 in

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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

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2014 Winter Olympics , ''Zharkie. Zimnie. Tvoi'') , nations = 88 , events = 98 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , athletes = 2,873 , opening = 7 February 2014 , closing = 23 February 2014 , opened_by = President Vladimir Putin , cauldron = , stadium = Fisht Olympic ...

he competed in men's ski cross where he reached the semi finals. In the small final he placed second, behind

Egor Korotkov Egor Vadimovich Korotkov (russian: Его́р Вади́мович Коротко́в; born 14 April 1986) is a Russian freestyle skier who specializes in the skicross discipline. Career He finished fifth at the 2006 FIS Nordic Junior World Ski C ...

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

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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

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. He shared the podium with

Jean-Frédéric Chapuis Jean-Frédéric Chapuis (born 2 March 1989) is a French freestyle skier. He won the gold medal at the 2013 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships in ski cross Ski cross is a skiing competition which incorporates terrain features traditionall ...

, defending World and Olympic Champion, who won the silver medal and

Victor Öhling Norberg Victor Öhling Norberg (born 22 May 1990) is a Swedish freestyle skier. Born in Bruksvallarna, he competed in ski cross at the World Ski Championships 2013, and at the 2014 Winter Olympics as well as at the 2018 Winter Olympics, in ski-c ...

, 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.

World Cup

Standings

Wins

References

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External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Flisar, Filip 1987 births Living people Sportspeople from Maribor Slovenian male freestyle skiers Olympic freestyle skiers of Slovenia Freestyle skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics Freestyle skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Freestyle skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics X Games athletes