Dominik Paris (born 14 April 1989) is an Italian alpine ski racer, who specializes in speed events of super-G and downhill. He was the world champion in super-G, as the gold medalist in 2019 at Åre, Sweden.
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). 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 (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 27–28 December 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.
As of February 2026, he has 24 World Cup wins and 52 podiums.
World Cup results Season titles 1 title – (1 SG) SeasonDiscipline 2019 Super-G
Season standings SeasonAgeOverallSlalomGiantslalomDownhillCombined 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 15 — — 19 3 rowspan="6" 2022 32 8 — — 9 3 2023 33 18 — — 9 11 2024 34 8 — — 7 3 2025 35 11 — — 6 6 2026 36 9 — — 5 3
Race victories Total Downhill Super-G Combined Wins 26 20 6 0 Podiums 54 35 18 1 SeasonDateLocationDiscipline201329 December 2012 Bormio, Italy Downhill26 January 2013 Kitzbühel, Austria Downhill201430 November 2013 Lake Louise, Canada Downhill201523 January 2015 Kitzbühel, Austria Super-G201620 February 2016 Chamonix, France Downhill12 March 2016 Kvitfjell, Norway Downhill201721 January 2017 Kitzbühel, Austria Downhill15 March 2017 Aspen, United States Downhill201828 December 2017 Bormio, Italy Downhill201928 December 2018 Downhill29 December 2018 Super-G25 January 2019 Kitzbühel, Austria Downhill2 March 2019 Kvitfjell, Norway Downhill3 March 2019 Super-G13 March 2019 Soldeu, Andorra Downhill14 March 2019 Super-G202027 December 2019 Bormio, Italy Downhill28 December 2019 Downhill20215 February 2021 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany Downhill 202228 December 2021 Bormio, Italy Downhill5 March 2022 Kvitfjell, Norway Downhill202416 December 2023 Val Gardena, Italy Downhill20257 March 2025 Kvitfjell, Norway Downhill9 March 2025 Super-G202621 March 2026 Downhill22 March 2026 Super-G
World Championship results YearAgeSlalomGiantslalomSuper-GDownhillCombinedTeamcombined 2011 21 — — — 20 DNF2 rowspan=7 2013 23 — — — 2 9 2015 25 — — 14 23 10 2017 27 — — 9 13 4 2019 29 — — 1 6 9 2021 31— — 5 4 — 2023 33— — DNF 8 DSQ1 2025 35— — 7 4 DNF2
Olympic results YearAgeSlalomGiantslalomSuper-GDownhillCombinedTeamcombined 2010 20 — — — — 13 rowspan=4 2014 24 — — 16 11 18 2018 28 — — 7 4 DNF2 2022 32 — — 21 6 — 2026 36 — — DNF 3 5
Musical career Dominik Paris is the singer of the metal band Rise of Voltage, from its foundation in 2017. The other members of the band are Lukas Paris (guitar, brother of Dominik), Frank Pichler (bass) and Florian Schwienbacher (drums). The band has one full-length album, Time, published in 2018.
See also Italian skiers who closed in top 10 in overall World Cup
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External links
Dominik Paris at FISI Dominik Paris at Milano Cortina 2026