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Filip Flisar

Filip Flisar
— Alpine skier —
FIS Ski Cross World Cup 2015 - Megève - 20150313 - Filip Flisar 2.jpg
Disciplines Ski cross
Club SK Branik
Born (1987-09-28) 28 September 1987 (age 29)
Maribor, SR Slovenia,
SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
World Cup debut 6 March 2008
Olympics
Teams 2 – (2010, 2014)
World Championships
Teams 4 – (2011, 2013, 2015, 2017)
Medals 1 (1 gold)
World Cup
Seasons 2008–present
Wins 7
Podiums 14
Discipline titles 1 – SX (2012)
Last updated on: 5 March 2017

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.


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