Rumors confirmed: Henrik Kristoffersen announces farewell to Rossignol after 18 years. And now?

The separation between the Norwegian champion and the French brand is official, after 28 victories in the CdM and the Olympic and world medals. Van Deer in its future? "It's time to try something new".

Friday 3 June 2022 3 minutes reading time

The rumors had been chasing each other for weeks and now they become certainty. After an entire career spent together, Henrik Kristoffersen and Rossignol share their respective paths, and there is really great curiosity around the 27-year-old Norwegian slalomgiant about the choice he will make for his future in the white circus, since the first option seems to be right. that linked to “Van Deer”, the brand launched by Marcel Hirscher and which already counts in his stable, starting from the 2022/23 season, on Timon Haugan and Charlie Raposo. HK94 has admitted several times that he had had difficulties in the last two seasons with many changes on the materials, before finding his way back from December onwards, with the victory in the giant on the Gran Risa and then with the slalom performance in the new year, arriving up to Garmisch's double and the conquest of the third specialty World Cup, which is added in the marriage between the Norwegian ace and Rossignol to the giant's crystal ball (in 2020), to the 28 victories in the maximum circuit, touching several times the "coppone", to the world title of giant (2019) and to the bronze in slalom in Cortina 2021, in addition to the two Olympic medals between Sochi 2014 (bronze in slalom) and PyeongChang 2018 (silver in giant). “Since 2004 I have had a special relationship with Rossignol and together we have achieved great things - Kristoffersen has thus formalized his choice through social media - Moments that I will love forever, but it's time to try something new. I want to thank Rossignol for giving opportunities to a kid with big dreams and has been by my side ever since. Thanks to all the people I met and with whom I have had the pleasure of working together during all this time ".

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