Matej Vidović (ski racer)

Matej Vidović
nation	Croatia
birthday	14th April 1993 (age 27)
place of birth	Zagreb , Croatia
Career
discipline	slalom
society	SK Croatica
status	active
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut 5th January 2012  Overall World Cup 88th ( 2018/19 )  Slalom World Cup 29. (2018/19)
last change: March 15, 2020

Matej Vidović (born April 14, 1993 in Zagreb ) is a Croatian ski racer . He specializes in the slalom discipline.

Career

Matej Vidović completed his first FIS races in 2008. Since then, he has been regularly participating in such competitions, and so far he has won twelve of them. On January 5, 2012, he made his debut in a slalom in Zagreb in the Alpine Ski World Cup . His best result to date in this series of competitions was achieved on March 5, 2017 when he finished 21st in the slalom competition in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia . At the end of the season he finished 137th in the overall World Cup ranking.

Vidović has already taken part in slalom races at Alpine World Ski Championships several times . His best result was a 26th place at the 2015 World Championships in Beaver Creek, USA . At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , he reached 28th place in the same discipline. In the 2017/18 season, he won the slalom classification of the European Cup.

successes

winter Olympics

• Sochi 2014 : 28th slalom

Alpine World Ski Championships

• Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2011 : 51st slalom
• Schladming 2013 : 33rd slalom
• Beaver Creek 2015 : 26th slalom
• St. Moritz 2017 : 35th slalom
• Åre 2019 : 32nd slalom

World cup

• 2 placements among the best 20

World Cup ratings

season	total		slalom
	space	Points	space	Points
2016/17	137.	10	51.	10
2017/18	119.	19th	38.	19th
2018/19	88	66	29	66
2019/20	142.	11	52.	11

European Cup

• Season 2016/17 : 5th slalom ranking
• Season 2017/18 : 4th overall ranking, 1st slalom ranking
• 10 podium places, including 4 wins:

date	place	country	discipline
17th January 2016	Zell am See	Austria	slalom
January 11, 2017	Zell am See	Austria	slalom
December 13, 2017	Obereggen	Italy	slalom
February 16, 2018	Jaun	Switzerland	slalom

Junior World Championships

• Roccaraso 2012 : 7th slalom
• Québec 2013 : 11th slalom
• Jasna 2014 : 14th slalom

More Achievements

• 12 victories in FIS races

Web links

• Matej Vidović in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Matej Vidović (ski racer) in the database of Ski-DB (English)