Peter Fill

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Peter Fill
Alpine skier
Peter Fill Hinterstoder 2011.jpg
Peter Fill in February 2011
Disciplines Downhill, Super-G, Combined
Club CS Carabinieri [1]
Born (1982-11-12) 12 November 1982 (age 40)
Brixen, South Tyrol, Italy
Height175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
World Cup debut7 March 2002 (age 19)
Retired1 February 2020
Website peter-fill.com
Olympics
Teams4 (2006, 2010, 2014, 2018)
Medals0
World Championships
Teams7 (2003–13, 2017)
Medals2 (0 gold)
World Cup
Seasons17 (2002–2018)
Wins3 (2 DH, 1 SG)
Podiums22 (13 DH, 5 SG, 4 AC)
Overall titles0 – (6th in 2007, 2017)
Discipline titles3 – (2 DH, 1 AC)
Medal record
Women's alpine skiing
Representing Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
International alpine ski competitions
Event1st2nd3rd
World Championships 011
World Junior Championships 101
Total112
World Cup race podiums
Event1st2nd3rd
Downhill265
Super-G122
Combined022
Total3109
World Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2009 Val-d'Isère Super-G
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2011 Garmisch Combined
Fill at Val Gardena in December 2013 Fill Peter 2013.JPG
Fill at Val Gardena in December 2013

Peter Fill (born 12 November 1982) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from northern Italy. [2] Born in Brixen, South Tyrol, he formerly competed in all disciplines, and later focused on the speed events of downhill, super-G, and combined. Fill won the World Cup season title in downhill in 2016 and in 2017, and the combined title in 2018.

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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. [3]

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. As a junior in 2001, he achieved his first important success on an international level, a bronze medal in the super-G at the Junior World Championships.

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 2006 and 2007 World Cup seasons, Fill had seven podiums: four in downhill, two in super-G, and a combined, but no wins. 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 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. [4]

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. [5] 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. [6]

Personal

Fill is a cousin of retired giant slalom racer 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. [7] 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 (a well-known folk group, especially in German-speaking countries) who dedicated the song "Wiedermal a super Zeit" to Fill for his silver medal in super-G at the World Championships in Val-d'Isère in 2009. [8]

Since 2007, Fill's manager has been Andreas Goller, [9] who previously represented Kristian Ghedina. [10] His ski technician is South-Tyrolean Sepp Kuppelwieser (who was ski man for Kjetil André Aamodt for ten years).

During the 2009 season, Atomic, Briko, Finstral, and Leki, as official sponsors 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 World Cup finals in Sweden at Åre in March. [11]

World Cup results

Season titles

SeasonDiscipline
2016 Downhill
2017 Downhill
2018 Combined

Season standings

SeasonAgeOverallSlalomGiant
slalom		Super-GDownhillCombined
2002 19114——33——
2003 2065—283445—
2004 2140—44163315
2005 2230—3630198
2006 231650338146
2007 246—25947
2008 2526—36271410
2009 2610—311098
2010 27104———38—
2011 2821——19179
2012 2935——252217
2013 3038——172421
2014 3115——10127
2015 3234——2020—
2016 3310——9116
2017 346——5129
2018 3516——14111

Race podiums

SeasonDateLocationDisciplinePlace
2006 13 Jan 2006  Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Wengen, Switzerland Super combined 3rd
20 Jan 2006 Flag of Austria.svg Kitzbühel, Austria Super-G 2nd
15 Mar 2006 Flag of Sweden.svg Åre, Sweden Downhill 3rd
2007 25 Nov 2006 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Lake Louise, CanadaDownhill3rd
20 Dec 2006 Flag of Austria.svg Hinterstoder, AustriaSuper-G2nd
29 Dec 2006 Flag of Italy.svg Bormio, ItalyDownhill2nd
13 Jan 2007  Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Wengen, SwitzerlandDownhill3rd
2009 29 Nov 2008 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Lake Louise, CanadaDownhill1st
16 Jan 2009  Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Wengen, SwitzerlandSuper combined2nd
2014 6 Dec 2013 Flag of the United States.svg Beaver Creek, USADownhill3rd
7 Dec 2013Super-G3rd
2016 28 Nov 2015 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Lake Louise, CanadaDownhill2nd
29 Nov 2015Super-G3rd
23 Jan 2016 Flag of Austria.svg Kitzbühel, AustriaDownhill1st
2017 3 Dec 2016 Flag of France.svg Val-d'Isère, FranceDownhill2nd
27 Jan 2017 Flag of Germany.svg Garmisch, GermanyDownhill3rd
28 Jan 20172nd
25 Feb 2017 Flag of Norway.svg Kvitfjell, NorwayDownhill2nd
26 Feb 2017Super-G1st
15 Mar 2017 Flag of the United States.svg Aspen, USADownhill2nd
2018 29 Dec 2017 Flag of Italy.svg Bormio, ItalySuper combined2nd
12 Jan 2018  Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Wengen, SwitzerlandSuper combined3rd

World Championship results

  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 slalom 		Super-GDownhillCombined
2003 20DNF1—132011
2005 22——1424DNF
2007 24 — 23 14 11 13
2009 26 — — 2 14 5
2011 28 — — 9 14 3
2013 30 — — 14 12 —
2015 32 — — — — —
2017 34 — — 11 9 DNF1

Olympic results Olympic rings.svg

  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 slalom 		Super-GDownhillCombined
2006 23 — — 13 19 9
2010 27 — — DSQ 15 DNF2
2014 31 — — 8 7 DNF2
2018 35 — — DNF 6 DNF2

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References

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  2. ↑ "Peter Fill announces the end of his racing career".
  3. ↑ "Dominio Fill".
  4. ↑ "Festeggiamenti "mondiali" per Peter Fill a Castelrotto - NEWS - - Homepage ufficiale di Peter Fill - Peter Fill, Ski Alpin, FIS World Cup , italiano campionato, 3 Olympics Games starts". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2009-03-04.
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  6. ↑ Matar, Daniella (16 March 2016). "Peter Fill becomes 1st Italian to win men's downhill title". news.yahoo.com . Retrieved 16 March 2016.
  7. ↑ "Peters Fotogallery".
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