Dominik Paris


Dominik Paris is an Italian World Cup alpine ski racer, who specializes in speed events. He is the current world champion of the super-G in 2019 Åre.

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 and the first tie in a men's downhill in nearly 35 years. 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.
At the 2013 World Championships in Austria, Paris won the silver medal in the downhill, 0.46 seconds behind gold medalist Aksel Lund Svindal.
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, and Didier Cuche won more often - but only few of them on the entire length of the original 'Streif' run.
In the 2018–19 season, after a double victory in Bormio and in Kvitfjell, Paris added a double victory at the World Cup Finals in Soldeu, where he won the first crystal globe in career in the super-G.
Previously in the season, 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 skier 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 during a training session, ending prematurely his season.
Through 28 December 2019, he has eighteen World Cup wins and thirty-six podiums.

World Cup results

Season titles

SeasonDiscipline
2019Super-G

Season standings

Race podiums

SeasonDateLocationDisciplinePlace
201129 January 2011 Chamonix, FranceDownhill2nd
201329 December 2012 Bormio, ItalyDownhill1st
201326 January 2013 Kitzbühel, AustriaDownhill1st
201430 November 2013 Lake Louise, CanadaDownhill1st
201530 November 2014 Lake Louise, CanadaSuper-G3rd
201519 December 2014 Val Gardena, ItalyDownhill3rd
201520 December 2014 Val Gardena, ItalySuper-G2nd
201528 December 2014 Santa Caterina, ItalyDownhill3rd
201523 January 2015 Kitzbühel, AustriaSuper-G1st
201524 January 2015 Kitzbühel, AustriaDownhill2nd
20166 February 2016 Jeongseon, South KoreaDownhill2nd
201619 February 2016 Chamonix, FranceSuper combined2nd
201620 February 2016 Chamonix, FranceDownhill1st
201612 March 2016 Kvitfjell, NorwayDownhill1st
201613 March 2016 Kvitfjell, NorwaySuper-G3rd
20172 December 2016 Val-d'Isère, FranceSuper-G3rd
201727 December 2016 Santa Caterina, ItalySuper-G3rd
201721 January 2017 Kitzbühel, AustriaDownhill1st
201715 March 2017 Aspen, USADownhill1st
201716 March 2017 Aspen, USASuper-G2nd
201828 December 2017 Bormio, ItalyDownhill1st
201827 January 2018 Garmisch, GermanyDownhill2nd
201924 November 2018 Lake Louise, CanadaDownhill3rd
20191 December 2018 Beaver Creek, USASuper-G3rd
201928 December 2018 Bormio, ItalyDownhill1st
201929 December 2018 Bormio, ItalySuper-G1st
201925 January 2019 Kitzbühel, AustriaDownhill1st
201927 January 2019 Kitzbühel, AustriaSuper-G3rd
20192 March 2019 Kvitfjell, NorwayDownhill1st
20193 March 2019 Kvitfjell, NorwaySuper-G1st
201913 March 2019 Soldeu, AndorraDownhill1st
201914 March 2019 Soldeu, AndorraSuper-G1st
202030 November 2019 Lake Louise, CanadaDownhill2nd
20201 December 2019 Lake Louise, CanadaSuper-G2nd
202027 December 2019 Bormio, ItalyDownhill1st
202028 December 2019 Bormio, ItalyDownhill1st
202018 January 2020 Wengen, SwitzerlandDownhill2nd

World Championships results

Olympic results