Dominik Paris

Dominik Paris (born 14 April 1989) is an Italian World Cup alpine ski racer, who specializes in speed events of downhill and super-G. He is the current world champion in super-G, as the gold medalist in 2019 at Åre, Sweden.

Dominik Paris
Alpine skier
October 2014
DisciplinesDownhill, Super-G,
Combined
ClubG.S. Forestale
Born (1989-04-14) 14 April 1989
Merano, Trentino-South Tyrol, Italy
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
World Cup debut19 December 2008
(age 19)
Websitedominikparis.com
Olympics
Teams3 – (2010, 2014, 2018)
Medals0
World Championships
Teams5 – (20112019)
Medals2 (1 gold)
World Cup
Seasons13 – (20092021)
Wins19 – (15 DH, 4 SG)
Podiums39 – (25 DH, 13 SG, 1 SC)
Overall titles0 – (4th in 2019)
Discipline titles1 – (SG, 2019)

Racing career

Paris made his World Cup debut in December 2008 and won his first World Cup race in late December 2012 in Italy, a dead-heat tie with Hannes Reichelt in the downhill on the Pista Stelvio at Bormio. Aksel Lund Svindal was just one hundredth of a second behind for third and Klaus Kröll was fourth, just one hundredth behind Svindal. It was the closest top-four finish in World Cup downhill history (0.02 of a second) and the first tie in a men's downhill in nearly 35 years (January 1978).[1][2] Four weeks later, Paris firmly established himself as a top downhill racer on the circuit with a win at Kitzbühel on the classic Streif course.[3][4]

At the 2013 World Championships in Austria, Paris won the silver medal in the downhill, 0.46 seconds behind gold medalist Aksel Lund Svindal.[5][6]

Paris gained his first victory in super-G at Kitzbühel in 2015, and placed second in the downhill the next day. Two years later in 2017, he won his second downhill on the Streif course and in 2019 he concluded a "Hahnenkamm hat trick" with his third downhill win at Kitzbühel. This third victory ties him with Pirmin Zurbriggen, Luc Alphand, and Franz Heinzer as the third most successful downhill racer at Kitzbühel; only Franz Klammer, Karl Schranz (4x), and Didier Cuche (5x) won more often - but only few of them on the entire length of the original 'Streif' run. SOURCE

In the 2019 season, after double victories at both Bormio and Kvitfjell, Paris added a double victory at the World Cup finals in Soldeu, where he won his first crystal globe, in the super-G. A month earlier, he won the gold medal in the same event at the World Championships in Åre, Sweden.

Paris started the 2019–2020 season with runner-up finishes in the first two speed events at Lake Louise, Canada. On December 27–28, 2019, he won consecutive World Cup downhills in Bormio, becoming the first in history to achieve five downhill victories – four in a row – on the Stelvio course. In late January, three days after his first-ever podium on the classic Lauberhorn downhill, Paris suffered an ACL injury to his right knee during a training session, ending his season.[7]

Through February 2021, he has nineteen World Cup wins and thirty-nine podiums.

World Cup results

Season titles

  • 1 title  – (1 SG)
Season Discipline
2019 Super-G

Season standings

Season
Age Overall Slalom Giant
Slalom
Super G Downhill Combined
20102072374321
20112147552120
20122231521418
2013231423311
20142435321522
20152572536
20162661034
2017278564339
2018281216411
201929412
  2020^301110523
20213113163
Standings through 6 February 2021
^ Season-ending injury in late January 2020

Race podiums

  • 19 wins – (15 DH, 4 SG)
  • 39 podiums – (25 DH, 13 SG, 1 AC)
Season
Date Location Discipline Place
201129 Jan 2011 Chamonix, FranceDownhill2nd
2013 29 Dec 2012 Bormio, ItalyDownhill1st
26 Jan 2013 Kitzbühel, AustriaDownhill1st
2014 30 Nov 2013 Lake Louise, CanadaDownhill1st
201530 Nov 2014Super-G3rd
19 Dec 2014 Val Gardena, ItalyDownhill3rd
20 Dec 2014Super-G2nd
28 Dec 2014 Santa Caterina, ItalyDownhill3rd
23 Jan 2015 Kitzbühel, AustriaSuper-G1st
24 Jan 2015Downhill2nd
2016 6 Feb 2016 Jeongseon, South KoreaDownhill2nd
19 Feb 2016 Chamonix, FranceCombined2nd
20 Feb 2016Downhill1st
12 Mar 2016 Kvitfjell, NorwayDownhill1st
13 Mar 2016Super-G3rd
2017 2 Dec 2016 Val-d'Isère, FranceSuper-G3rd
27 Dec 2016 Santa Caterina, ItalySuper-G3rd
21 Jan 2017 Kitzbühel, AustriaDownhill1st
15 Mar 2017 Aspen, USADownhill1st
16 Mar 2017Super-G2nd
2018 28 Dec 2017 Bormio, ItalyDownhill1st
27 Jan 2018 Garmisch, GermanyDownhill2nd
2019 24 Nov 2018 Lake Louise, CanadaDownhill3rd
1 Dec 2018 Beaver Creek, USASuper-G3rd
28 Dec 2018 Bormio, ItalyDownhill1st
29 Dec 2018Super-G1st
25 Jan 2019 Kitzbühel, AustriaDownhill1st
27 Jan 2019Super-G3rd
2 Mar 2019 Kvitfjell, NorwayDownhill1st
3 Mar 2019Super-G1st
13 Mar 2019 Soldeu, AndorraDownhill1st
14 Mar 2019Super-G1st
2020 30 Nov 2019 Lake Louise, CanadaDownhill2nd
1 Dec 2019Super-G2nd
27 Dec 2019 Bormio, ItalyDownhill1st
28 Dec 2019Downhill1st
18 Jan 2020   Wengen, SwitzerlandDownhill2nd
2021 22 Jan 2021 Kitzbühel, AustriaDownhill3rd
5 Feb 2021 Garmisch, GermanyDownhill1st

World Championships results

Year
Age Slalom Giant
Slalom
Super G Downhill Combined
20112120DNF2
20132329
201525142310
2017279134
201929169

Olympic results

Year
Age Slalom Giant
Slalom
Super G Downhill Combined
20102013
201424161118
20182874DNF2

See also

References

  1. "Top four within .02 of second in Bormio downhill". Ski Racing.com. 29 December 2012.
  2. Jelusic, Ana (29 December 2012). "Paris, Reichelt and Svindal within 0.01 second in Bormio!". FIS Alpine.com.
  3. "Dom Paris wins Hahnenkamm DH for Italy". Ski Racing.com. 26 January 2013.
  4. Jelusic, Ana (26 January 2013). "Dominik Paris tames the Streif". FIS Alpine.com.
  5. "Svindal spectacular in winning World DH title". Ski Racing.com. 9 February 2013.
  6. "Downhill Gold for Aksel Lund Svindal". FIS Alpine.com. 9 February 2013.
  7. "Game over for Paris following ACL injury". FIS-Ski.com. 21 January 2020.
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