He cut his arm next to his elbow during the warm-ups for the first training and was air-lifted by an emergency helicopter to the nearby hospital in Bolzano/Bozen for cautionary reasons. The injury happened on Track 3 of Ciampionoi which is where athletes have been training for the last few days. Unfortunately, he will have to skip the World Cup for a least one month.

In 2012, Perko placed second in the Saslong Downhill.