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
Disciplines	Downhill, Super-G, Combined
Club	G.S. Forestale
Born	14 April 1989 Merano, Trentino-South Tyrol, Italy
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
World Cup debut	19 December 2008 (age 19)
Website	dominikparis.com
Olympics
Teams	3 – (2010, 2014, 2018)
Medals	0
World Championships
Teams	5 – (2011–2019)
Medals	2 (1 gold)
World Cup
Seasons	13 – (2009–2021)
Wins	19 – (15 DH, 4 SG)
Podiums	39 – (25 DH, 13 SG, 1 SC)
Overall titles	0 – (4th in 2019)
Discipline titles	1 – (SG, 2019)
Medal record Men's alpine skiing Representing  Italy International alpine ski competitions Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 0 0 0 World Championships 1 1 0 Total 1 1 0 World Cup race podiums Event 1st 2nd 3rd Super-G 4 3 6 Downhill 15 6 4 Combined 0 1 0 Total 19 10 10 World Championships 2019 Åre Super-G 2013 Schladming Downhill Junior World Championships 2009 Garmisch Downhill 2009 Garmisch Combined 2009 Garmisch Super G

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
2010	20	72	—	—	37	43	21
2011	21	47	—	—	55	21	20
2012	22	31	—	—	52	14	18
2013	23	14	—	—	23	3	11
2014	24	35	—	—	32	15	22
2015	25	7	—	—	2	5	36
2016	26	6	—	—	10	3	4
2017	27	8	—	56	4	3	39
2018	28	12	—	—	16	4	11
2019	29	4	—	—	1	2	—
2020 ^	30	11	—	—	10	5	23
2021	31	13	—	—	16	3	—

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
2011	29 Jan 2011	Chamonix, France	Downhill	2nd
2013	29 Dec 2012	Bormio, Italy	Downhill	1st
	26 Jan 2013	Kitzbühel, Austria	Downhill	1st
2014	30 Nov 2013	Lake Louise, Canada	Downhill	1st
2015	30 Nov 2014		Super-G	3rd
	19 Dec 2014	Val Gardena, Italy	Downhill	3rd
	20 Dec 2014		Super-G	2nd
	28 Dec 2014	Santa Caterina, Italy	Downhill	3rd
	23 Jan 2015	Kitzbühel, Austria	Super-G	1st
	24 Jan 2015		Downhill	2nd
2016	6 Feb 2016	Jeongseon, South Korea	Downhill	2nd
	19 Feb 2016	Chamonix, France	Combined	2nd
	20 Feb 2016		Downhill	1st
	12 Mar 2016	Kvitfjell, Norway	Downhill	1st
	13 Mar 2016		Super-G	3rd
2017	2 Dec 2016	Val-d'Isère, France	Super-G	3rd
	27 Dec 2016	Santa Caterina, Italy	Super-G	3rd
	21 Jan 2017	Kitzbühel, Austria	Downhill	1st
	15 Mar 2017	Aspen, USA	Downhill	1st
	16 Mar 2017		Super-G	2nd
2018	28 Dec 2017	Bormio, Italy	Downhill	1st
	27 Jan 2018	Garmisch, Germany	Downhill	2nd
2019	24 Nov 2018	Lake Louise, Canada	Downhill	3rd
	1 Dec 2018	Beaver Creek, USA	Super-G	3rd
	28 Dec 2018	Bormio, Italy	Downhill	1st
	29 Dec 2018		Super-G	1st
	25 Jan 2019	Kitzbühel, Austria	Downhill	1st
	27 Jan 2019		Super-G	3rd
	2 Mar 2019	Kvitfjell, Norway	Downhill	1st
	3 Mar 2019		Super-G	1st
	13 Mar 2019	Soldeu, Andorra	Downhill	1st
	14 Mar 2019		Super-G	1st
2020	30 Nov 2019	Lake Louise, Canada	Downhill	2nd
	1 Dec 2019		Super-G	2nd
	27 Dec 2019	Bormio, Italy	Downhill	1st
	28 Dec 2019		Downhill	1st
	18 Jan 2020	Wengen, Switzerland	Downhill	2nd
2021	22 Jan 2021	Kitzbühel, Austria	Downhill	3rd
	5 Feb 2021	Garmisch, Germany	Downhill	1st

World Championships results

Year
	Age	Slalom	Giant Slalom	Super G	Downhill	Combined
2011	21	—	—	—	20	DNF2
2013	23	—	—	—	2	9
2015	25	—	—	14	23	10
2017	27	—	—	9	13	4
2019	29	—	—	1	6	9

Olympic results

Year
	Age	Slalom	Giant Slalom	Super G	Downhill	Combined
2010	20	—	—	—	—	13
2014	24	—	—	16	11	18
2018	28	—	—	7	4	DNF2

See also

• Italian skiers who closed in top 10 in overall World Cup

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.

External links

• Dominik Paris at the International Ski Federation
• Dominik Paris World Cup standings at the International Ski Federation
• Dominik Paris at Ski-DB Alpine Ski Database
• Dominik Paris at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Italian Winter Sports Federation – (FISI) – alpine skiing – Dominik Paris – (in Italian)
• Nordica Skis – athletes – Dominik Paris
• Official website (in German, Italian, and English)