Peter Fill
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Fill in 2011 | ||||||||||||||||
| Disciplines | Downhill, super-G, combined | |||||||||||||||
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| Club | Ski club C.S. Carabinieri | |||||||||||||||
| Born |
12 November 1982 Brixen, South Tyrol, Italy | |||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||
| World Cup debut |
7 March 2002 (age 19) | |||||||||||||||
| Website | peter-fill.com | |||||||||||||||
| Olympics | ||||||||||||||||
| Teams | 3 – (2006, 2010, 2014) | |||||||||||||||
| World Championships | ||||||||||||||||
| Teams | 6 – (2003–13) | |||||||||||||||
| Medals | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| World Cup | ||||||||||||||||
| Seasons | 16th – (2002–17) | |||||||||||||||
| Wins | 2 – (2 DH) | |||||||||||||||
| Podiums | 15 – (9 DH, 4 SG, 2 SC) | |||||||||||||||
| Overall titles | 0 – (6th in 2007) | |||||||||||||||
| Discipline titles | 1 – (DH, 2016) | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Peter Fill (born 12 November 1982) is a World Cup alpine ski racer from Brixen, South Tyrol, Italy.
Career
Fill is an all-round skier. In the 2007 season, Fill was among the overall leaders for the overall World Cup title, the first Italian since Alberto Tomba to rank in the overall top ten.
Fill learned to ski at the age of 3 with the help of his first teacher Frieda Senoner. He achieved his first successes during his middle-school years, while he was coached by Peter Thomaseth.
In 1997/98 he joined the Seiser Alm training center, where he was coached by his uncle Arnold. In the same year he joined the B-Pool of the Bolzano-Bozen ski team (coached by Sepp Steinwandter). One year later he advanced to the A-Pool under Stephan Feichter.
In 1999, he won every discipline at the National Junior Championships and returned home with four gold medals; he was called "the phenomenon" by the Italian press.[1]
In 2000, Fill joined the national team for the first time. His coach was Ernst Pfeifhofer, who continued as his coach for the following year in the Italian B-Team. At the same time he became a member of the Carabinieri sportsgroup.
In 2001, as a junior, he achieved his first important success on an international level, a bronze medal in the super-G at the Alpine Ski World Championship.
In 2002/03 he was part of the A-Team of Flavio Roda for the first time. In February 2002, Fill won the World Juniors and, as a result, took part in his first super-G race of World Cup on 7 March 2002 at Altenmarkt in Austria, where he placed 12th outpacing the Norwegian Lasse Kjus by one hundredth of a second. While Fill's strengths are the downhill and super-G, he is also competitive in the technical disciplines. On 13 January 2006 he stood 3rd on the Ski World Cup podium of the super combined race in Wengen (Switzerland).
During the 2005/2006 and 2006/2007 seasons, Fill reached the podium 7 times: 4 times in downhill and twice in super-G, however without winning any of these competitions.
On March 21, 2007, he became Italian Champion in multiple disciplines (twice in super-G and once in giant slalom), bringing his career total of national championships to 3.
During the 2007/2008 season he was unable to reach the podium but managed to place in the top ten 10 on six occasions. On 29 November 2008 in Lake Louise (Canada) he won his first World Cup competition, beating Swiss Carlo Janka and Swede Hans Olsson, becoming the seventh Italian in World Cup history to win a downhill competition.
On 4 February 2009, he won the silver medal in super-G during the World Championships in Val-d'Isère (France) on the icy and steep slope Face del Bellevarde. He managed to place himself before the three-time World Champion Aksel Lund Svindal, but was not fast enough to beat the Swiss Didier Cuche. His medal was the only one won by the Azzurri in the men's competitions.[2]
Fill won his second World Cup race in 2016, the downhill at Kitzbühel, on a difficult dark and windy day on the Streif that ended the season of overall leader Aksel Lund Svindal.[3] Fill went on to become the first Italian to win the World Cup downhill title, finishing 10th at the last downhill of the season in St. Moritz in March 2016 to finish 26 points ahead of Svindal.[4]
Personal
Fill is a cousin of retired giant slalom skier and fellow Kastelruther Denise Karbon. After junior high school he started working as an auto body mechanic while attending a vocational school, which he left after becoming more involved in alpine skiing competitions.[5] His mother tongue is German but he is also fluent in Italian and English. His idol in everyday life is his uncle Norbert Rier, leader of the Kastelruther Spatzen (well-known folk group, especially in German speaking countries) who dedicated the song "Wiedermal a super Zeit" to Fill for the silver medal achieved in FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Val-d'Isère.[6]
Since 2007 his manager has been Andreas Goller,[7] who in the past looked after Kristian Ghedina's business.[8]
His ski man is South-Tyrolean Sepp Kuppelwieser (who was Kjetil André Aamodt's ski man for ten years, the skier who won the most medals in alpine ski history).
During the 2008/09 season Atomic, Briko, Finstral and Leki, as official sponsor and suppliers, decided to reward Fill for his excellent results achieved during the season, offering him the chance to win the Artega GT sport car if he were to capture the downhill at the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup finals in Åre (Sweden) on 11 March 2009.[9]
World Cup results
Season titles
- 1 title – (1 downhill)
| Season | Discipline |
|---|---|
| 2016 | Downhill |
Season standings
| Season | Age | Overall | Slalom | Giant slalom | Super-G | Downhill | Combined |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 19 | 114 | — | — | 33 | — | — |
| 2003 | 20 | 65 | — | 28 | 34 | 45 | — |
| 2004 | 21 | 40 | — | 44 | 16 | 33 | 15 |
| 2005 | 22 | 30 | — | 36 | 30 | 19 | 8 |
| 2006 | 23 | 16 | 50 | 33 | 8 | 14 | 6 |
| 2007 | 24 | 6 | — | 25 | 9 | 4 | 7 |
| 2008 | 25 | 26 | — | 36 | 27 | 14 | 10 |
| 2009 | 26 | 10 | — | 31 | 10 | 9 | 8 |
| 2010 | 27 | 104 | — | — | — | 38 | — |
| 2011 | 28 | 21 | — | — | 19 | 17 | 9 |
| 2012 | 29 | 35 | — | — | 25 | 22 | 17 |
| 2013 | 30 | 38 | — | — | 17 | 24 | 21 |
| 2014 | 31 | 15 | — | — | 10 | 12 | 7 |
| 2015 | 32 | 34 | — | — | 20 | 20 | — |
| 2016 | 33 | 10 | — | — | 9 | 1 | 16 |
Race podiums
- 2 wins – (2 DH)
- 15 podiums – (9 DH, 4 SG, 2 SC)
| Season | Date | Location | Discipline | Place |
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| 2006 | 13 Jan 2006 | Wengen, Switzerland | Super combined | 3rd |
| 20 Jan 2006 | Kitzbühel, Austria | Super-G | 2nd | |
| 15 Mar 2006 | Are, Sweden | Downhill | 3rd | |
| 2007 | 25 Nov 2006 | Lake Louise, Canada | Downhill | 3rd |
| 20 Dec 2006 | Hinterstoder, Austria | Super-G | 2nd | |
| 29 Dec 2006 | Bormio, Italy | Downhill | 2nd | |
| 13 Jan 2007 | Wengen, Switzerland | Downhill | 3rd | |
| 2009 | 29 Nov 2008 | Lake Louise, Canada | Downhill | 1st |
| 16 Jan 2009 | Wengen, Switzerland | Super combined | 2nd | |
| 2014 | 6 Dec 2013 | Beaver Creek, USA | Downhill | 3rd |
| 7 Dec 2013 | Super-G | 3rd | ||
| 2016 | 28 Nov 2015 | Lake Louise, Canada | Downhill | 2nd |
| 29 Nov 2015 | Super-G | 3rd | ||
| 23 Jan 2016 | Kitzbühel, Austria | Downhill | 1st | |
| 2017 | 3 Dec 2016 | Val-d'Isère, France | Downhill | 2nd |
World Championship results
| Year | Age | Slalom | Giant slalom | Super-G | Downhill | Combined |
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| 2003 | 20 | DNF1 | — | 13 | 20 | 11 |
| 2005 | 22 | — | — | 14 | 24 | DNF |
| 2007 | 24 | — | 23 | 14 | 11 | 13 |
| 2009 | 26 | — | — | 2 | 14 | 5 |
| 2011 | 28 | — | — | 9 | 14 | 3 |
| 2013 | 30 | — | — | 14 | 12 | — |
| 2015 | 32 | — | — | — | — | — |
Olympic results 
| Year | Age | Slalom | Giant slalom | Super-G | Downhill | Combined |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 23 | — | — | 13 | 19 | 9 |
| 2010 | 27 | — | — | DSQ | 15 | DNF2 |
| 2014 | 31 | — | — | 8 | 7 | DNF2 |
References
- ↑ http://archiviostorico.gazzetta.it/1999/febbraio/27/DOMINIO_FILL_ga_0_9902279264.shtml
- ↑ http://www.peter-fill.com/14-e_221257.ski,r_23813.htm
- ↑ Willemsen, Eric (January 23, 2016). "Skiing: World Cup leader Svindal blows out knee in downhill crash". Salt Lake Tribune. Utah. Associated Press. Retrieved January 26, 2016.
- ↑ Matar, Daniella (16 March 2016). "Peter Fill becomes 1st Italian to win men's downhill title". news.yahoo.com. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
- ↑ http://www.peter-fill.com/3-PETER.htm
- ↑ http://www.peter-fill.com/13-e_222777.ski,r_23965.htm
- ↑ http://www.peter-fill.com/14-e_218059.ski,r_23341.htm
- ↑ http://www.ghedina.com/news.en.php?e=106523&r=11293&oi=
- ↑ http://www.peter-fill.com/2-e_222331.ski,r_23938.htm
External links
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- Peter Fill at the International Ski Federation
- FIS-ski.com – Peter Fill – World Cup season standings
- Ski-db.com – results – Peter Fill
- Peter Fill at Sports Reference – Olympic results
- Italian Winter Sports Federation – (FISI) – alpine skiing – Peter Fill – (Italian)
- Atomic Skis – athletes – Peter Fill
- Profile at ski2b.com
- Official website