Filip Flisar

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

World Cup

Standings SeasonOverall2008/09 167 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.SeasonDateLocationEvent1 2011/12 11 January 2012 Alpe d'Huez SX2 26 February 2012 Bischofswiesen SX3 10 March 2012 Grindelwald SX4 2012/13 13 December 2012 Telluride SX5 2015/16 13 February 2016 Idre Fjall SX6 2016/17 21 December 2016 Innichen SX7 22 December 2016 SX