Peter Fill

{{short description|Italian alpine skier}}

{{Infobox alpine ski racer

|name = Peter Fill

|image = Peter Fill Hinterstoder 2011.jpg

|image_size = 200

|caption = Peter Fill in February 2011

|country =

|disciplines = Downhill, Super-G, Combined

|club = CS Carabinieri{{cite news|url=https://www.carabinieri.it/arma/oggi/organizzazione/organizzazione-addestrativa/centro-sportivo-cc/olimpiadi-invernali-pyeongchang-2018|title=Olimpiadi Invernali Pyeongchang 2018|publisher=carabinieri.it|language=it|accessdate=12 February 2021}}

|sponsor =

|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1982|11|12|df=y}}

|birth_place = Brixen, South Tyrol, Italy

|height = 175 cm

|wcdebut = 7 March 2002 (age 19)

|retired = 1 February 2020

|website = [http://www.peter-fill.com/ peter-fill.com]

|olympicteams = 4 (2006, 2010, 2014, 2018)

|olympicmedals = 0

|olympicgolds =

|worldsteams = 7 (200313, 2017)

|worldsmedals = 2

|worldsgolds = 0

|wcseasons = 17 (20022018)

|wcwins = 3 (2 DH, 1 SG)

|wcpodiums = 22 (13 DH, 5 SG, 4 AC)

|wcoveralls = 0 – (6th in 2007, 2017)

|wctitles = 3 – (2 DH, 1 AC)

|show-medals = yes

|medaltemplates =

{{Medal|Sport|Men's alpine skiing}}

{{Medal|Country|{{ITA}}}}

{{Medal|Competition|International alpine ski competitions}}

{{MedalCount|total=yes

|World Championships | 0 | 1 | 1

|World Junior Championships | 1 | 0 | 1

}}

{{Medal|Competition|World Cup race podiums}}

{{MedalCount | total = yes

| Downhill | 2 | 6 | 5

| Super-G | 1 | 2 | 2

| Combined | 0 | 2 | 2

}}

{{Medal|Competition|World Championships}}

{{Medal|Silver|2009 Val-d'Isère|Super-G}}

{{Medal|Bronze|2011 Garmisch|Combined}}

}}

File:Fill Peter 2013.JPG in December 2013]]

Peter Fill (born 12 November 1982) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from northern Italy.{{Cite web|url=https://hahnenkamm.com/en/news/peter-fill-announces-the-end-of-his-racing-career/|title=Peter Fill announces the end of his racing career}} 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.

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.{{Cite web|url=http://archiviostorico.gazzetta.it/1999/febbraio/27/DOMINIO_FILL_ga_0_9902279264.shtml|title = Dominio Fill}}

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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.peter-fill.com/14-e_221257.ski,r_23813.htm |title=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 |access-date=2009-03-04 |archive-date=2011-07-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715065812/http://www.peter-fill.com/14-e_221257.ski,r_23813.htm |url-status=dead }}

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.{{cite news |url=http://www.sltrib.com/sports/3452895-155/skiing-world-cup-leader-svindal-blows |newspaper=Salt Lake Tribune |location=Utah |agency=Associated Press |last=Willemsen |first=Eric |title=Skiing: World Cup leader Svindal blows out knee in downhill crash |date=January 23, 2016 |access-date=January 26, 2016}} 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.{{cite web |url=https://news.yahoo.com/peter-fill-becomes-1st-italian-win-mens-downhill-103052773.html |title=Peter Fill becomes 1st Italian to win men's downhill title |last1=Matar |first1=Daniella |date=16 March 2016 |website=news.yahoo.com |access-date=16 March 2016}}

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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.peter-fill.com/3-PETER.htm|title = Peters Fotogallery}} 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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.peter-fill.com/13-e_222777.ski,r_23965.htm |title=Die Kastelruther Spatzen bringen den Peter Fill-Hit raus - NEWS - - Offizielle Homepage von Peter Fill - Peter Fill, Ski Alpin, FIS World Cup , Italienische Meisterschaft im Riesen Slalom, 3 Starts bei den Olympischen Spielen |access-date=2009-03-04 |archive-date=2011-07-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715065859/http://www.peter-fill.com/13-e_222777.ski,r_23965.htm |url-status=dead }}

Since 2007, Fill's manager has been Andreas Goller,{{cite web |url=http://www.peter-fill.com/14-e_218059.ski,r_23341.htm |title=Non solo sci ... Faccio anche altro! - NEWS - - Homepage ufficiale di Peter Fill - Peter Fill, Ski Alpin, FIS World Cup , italiano campionato, 3 Olympics Games starts |access-date=2009-10-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715065624/http://www.peter-fill.com/14-e_218059.ski,r_23341.htm |archive-date=2011-07-15 }} who previously represented Kristian Ghedina.{{cite web|url=http://www.ghedina.com/de/kristian-ghedina.asp?MAID%3D368%26APP%3D5%26LG%3D1%26NGRP%3D0%26NCAT%3D0%26NKEY%3Dkristian%26NEWS%3D6615 |title=Kristian Ghedina |access-date=2023-03-21 |url-status=usurped |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711092042/http://www.ghedina.com/de/kristian-ghedina.asp?MAID=368&APP=5&LG=1&NGRP=0&NCAT=0&NKEY=kristian&NEWS=6615 |archivedate=2011-07-11 }} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.peter-fill.com/2-e_222331.ski,r_23938.htm|title = Facebook}}

World Cup results

=Season titles=

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Season

! Discipline

2016Downhill
2017Downhill
2018Combined

=Season standings=

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!Season !! Age !! Overall !! Slalom !! Giant
slalom !! Super-G !! Downhill !!Combined

20021911433
20032065283445
2004214044163315
200522303630198
2006231650338146
200724625947
2008252636271410
20092610311098
20102710438
2011282119179
20122935252217
20133038172421
2014311510127
201532342020
201633109style="background:gold;"| 116
20173465style="background:gold;"| 129
201835161411style="background:gold;"| 1

=Race podiums=

  • 3 wins (2 DH, 1 SG)
  • 22 podiums (13 DH, 5 SG, 4 AC)

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! Season

! Date

! Location

! Discipline

! Place

rowspan=3 align=center|2006align=right|13 Jan 2006align=left| {{flagicon|SUI}}  Wengen, Switzerlandalign=center|Super combinedalign=center|3rd
align=right|20 Jan 2006align=left|{{flagicon|AUT}} Kitzbühel, Austriaalign=center|Super-Galign=center|2nd
align=right|15 Mar 2006align=left|{{flagicon|SWE}} Åre, Swedenalign=center|Downhillalign=center|3rd
rowspan=4 align=center|2007align=right|25 Nov 2006align=left|{{flagicon|CAN}} Lake Louise, Canadaalign=center|Downhillalign=center|3rd
align=right|20 Dec 2006align=left|{{flagicon|AUT}} Hinterstoder, Austriaalign=center|Super-Galign=center|2nd
align=right|29 Dec 2006align=left|{{flagicon|ITA}} Bormio, Italyalign=center|Downhillalign=center|2nd
align=right|13 Jan 2007align=left| {{flagicon|SUI}}  Wengen, Switzerlandalign=center|Downhillalign=center|3rd
rowspan=2 align=center|2009bgcolor="#BOEOE6" align=right|29 Nov 2008align=left|{{flagicon|CAN}} Lake Louise, Canadabgcolor="#BOEOE6" align=center|Downhillbgcolor="#BOEOE6" align=center|1st
align=right|16 Jan 2009align=left| {{flagicon|SUI}}  Wengen, Switzerlandalign=center|Super combinedalign=center|2nd
rowspan=2 align=center|2014align=right|6 Dec 2013rowspan=2 align=left|{{flagicon|USA}} Beaver Creek, USAalign=center|Downhillalign=center|3rd
align=right|7 Dec 2013align=center|Super-Galign=center|3rd
rowspan=3 align=center|2016align=right|28 Nov 2015rowspan=2 align=left|{{flagicon|CAN}} Lake Louise, Canadaalign=center|Downhillalign=center|2nd
align=right|29 Nov 2015align=center|Super-Galign=center|3rd
bgcolor="#BOEOE6" align=right|23 Jan 2016align=left|{{flagicon|AUT}} Kitzbühel, Austriabgcolor="#BOEOE6" align=center|Downhillbgcolor="#BOEOE6" align=center|1st
rowspan=6 align=center|2017align=right|3 Dec 2016align=left|{{flagicon|FRA}} Val-d'Isère, Francealign=center|Downhillalign=center|2nd
align=right|27 Jan 2017rowspan=2 align=left|{{flagicon|GER}} Garmisch, Germanyrowspan=2 align=center|Downhillalign=center|3rd
align=right|28 Jan 2017align=center|2nd
align=right|25 Feb 2017rowspan=2 align=left|{{flagicon|NOR}} Kvitfjell, Norwayalign=center|Downhillalign=center|2nd
bgcolor="#BOEOE6" align=right|26 Feb 2017bgcolor="#BOEOE6" align=center|Super-Gbgcolor="#BOEOE6" align=center|1st
align=right|15 Mar 2017align=left|{{flagicon|USA}} Aspen, USAalign=center|Downhillalign=center|2nd
rowspan=2 align=center|2018align=right|29 Dec 2017align=left|{{flagicon|ITA}} Bormio, Italyalign=center|Super combinedalign=center|2nd
align=right|12 Jan 2018align=left| {{flagicon|SUI}}  Wengen, Switzerlandalign=center|Super combinedalign=center|3rd

World Championship results

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!  Year   !!  Age  !!  Slalom  !!  Giant 
 slalom  !! Super-G !! Downhill !!Combined

200320DNF1132011
2005221424DNF
20072423141113
200926style="background:silver;"|2145
201128914style="background:#c96;"|3
2013301412
201532
201734119DNF1

Olympic results [[File:Olympic rings.svg|50px]]

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!  Year   !!  Age  !!  Slalom  !!  Giant 
 slalom  !! Super-G !! Downhill !!Combined

20062313199
201027DSQ15DNF2
20143187DNF2
201835DNF6DNF2

See also

References

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