Peter Fill

Peter Fill
— Alpine skier —

Fill in 2011
Disciplines Downhill, super-G, combined
Club Ski club C.S. Carabinieri
Born (1982-11-12) 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 15th – (2002–16)
Wins 2 – (2 DH)
Podiums 14 – (8 DH, 4 SG, 2 SC)
Overall titles 0 – (6th in 2007)
Discipline titles 1 – (DH, 2016)
Medal record
Men's alpine skiing
Competitor for  Italy
World Championships
2009 Val-d'Isère Super-G
2011 Garmisch Super combined

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 information[5]

Fill's cousin is 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. 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]

Peter Fill at the Fis Ski World Cup Val Gardena-Gröden 2013 – 46th Saslong Classic in Gröden

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

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

Season Date Location Discipline Place
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 Downhill3rd
20 Dec 2006 Hinterstoder, Austria Super-G2nd
29 Dec 2006 Bormio, Italy Downhill2nd
13 Jan 2007 Wengen, Switzerland Downhill3rd
2009 29 Nov 2008 Lake Louise, Canada Downhill1st
16 Jan 2009 Wengen, Switzerland Super combined2nd
2014 6 Dec 2013 Beaver Creek, USA Downhill3rd
7 Dec 2013 Super-G3rd
2016 28 Nov 2015 Lake Louise, Canada Downhill2nd
29 Nov 2015 Super-G3rd
23 Jan 2016 Kitzbühel, Austria Downhill1st

World Championship results

  Year    Age   Slalom   Giant 
 slalom  		Super-G Downhill Combined
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

External links

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