Half of the Olympic podiums in alpine skiing are from HEAD: the story of impressive domination

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In Beijing 2022 the quality and adaptation of the materials of the Austrian house emerged on a very special snow. Six titles won with champions such as Feuz, Mayer, Gut-Behrami, Hector, Suter and the surprising Strolz.

Monday 21 February 2022 3 minutes reading time

A completely artificial snow that was a puzzle for many, think of Mikaela Shiffrin first of all, in the Olympic competitions of Yanqing which, in the end, almost always saw the best of an entire season triumph. Out of ten individual alpine skiing competitions at the recent Olympic Games, however, one figure leaps to the eye and is that of the most clearly winning ski brand: HEAD, the home of Vorarlberg led by the new president of the FIS, Johan Eliasch, CEO of the Austrian company for years, he took home the beauty of 6 titles and occupied 15 of the 30 steps of the podium available in the five-circle events (team event excluded). It was understood since the men's descent, with the fabulous hat-trick commanded by Beat Feuz, in front of Johan Clarey and Matthias Mayer, that in terms of adaptation a truly exceptional job had been done, with Sara Hector immediately gold in giant (and Gut-Behrami of bronze) and practically reached ten doors from the encore in slalom, where Holdener in any case led HEAD to the bronze medal, and then conquered the silver in combined. Another double with the men's super-g, which saw Matthias Mayer take home the third Olympic gold of his career by beating Ryan Cochran-Siegle, who arrived only from this season at the court of the Austrian brand, by just 4 cents. Then in the men's giant the third place of Mathieu Faivre and in the slalom the second of Johannes Strolz, the revelation of the Games with the combined title, a race in which James Crawford climbed to the third step of the podium. Finally, two other pearls in women's speed, with the triumphs of Lara Gut-Behrami in super-g and Corinne Suter in the downhill.

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