The 11th edition of the celebrated freestyle event concludes another successful mission of launching the world’s best skiers and snowboarders into the stratosphere. Team rider Birk Ruud took 2nd in the Mens Big Air concluding a very successful season and Silvia Bertagna took 3rd place in the ladies.
The great final of the 7th Freeski World Cup Corvatsch went down at Silvaplana in the Engadine in Switzerland today and the Andri Ragettli took the win in the men's and Silvia Bertagna took 3rd place in the ladies.
It was a day to remember, Markus Eder being crowned the 2019 Freeride World Tour Champion at the Xtreme Verbier. The world title was not guaranteed for Markus going into the Finals, with Kristoffer Turndell within reach of the title. However as it the day unfolded it was Markus Eder who took out the win. The uncertainly and the pressure going into the day made it a very emotional day for Markus as he had been striving towards taking the title throughout the whole season.
Andri Ragettli comes back from a knee injury and wins the Crystal Globe Big Air after placing 3rd at the World Cup Big Air event in Quebec, Canada. Birk Ruud took 2nd place in the overall rankings.
On Sunday morning, 10th of March the starting pistol for the Engadin Ski Marathon was fired for the 51st time since 1969. With over 14.000 participants from all around the globe this event is the second biggest of its kind in the world.
Para-skiing combines two disciplines: giant slalom and parachuting accuracy landings. Our austrian para-ski athlete Magdalena Schwertl has been crowned women’s world champion again!
After a strong second run at the World Junior Ski Championships in Val di Fassa (ITA) the austrian junior racer Joshua Sturm surprisingly placed fourth in the slalom and missed the bronze medal by only 0.31 seconds.
Nick Goepper and recent Bronze medalist at the World Championships in Park City (USA), impressed the judges and 15,000 spectators with his sensational tricks securing his own star on the Wall of Fame.
Kevin Rolland takes the Silver medal at the 2019 World Championships in Park City, claiming his career’s fourth world championships spot on the podium.
The Voelkl Freeski team dominated the podium at the FIS Freeski World Slopestyle Championships with Birk Ruud placing 2nd and Nick Goepper 3rd behind James Wood in 1st. The event took place in Park City after a tough week of weather conditions
After two podiums at the first European Cup slalom in Trysil in December, Ylva Staalnacke is back on the podium again! At the EC giant slalom competition in Zinal the swedish skier placed 2nd on saturday’s race and 1st on sunday.
In the men's Markus Eder took first place with an impeccable run stomping a stylish flatspin 360 and a transfer air. Tanner Hall placed 2nd and Tom Peiffer 3rd. The conditions for the event could not have been better with powder landings for all the riders.
On the 5th and 6th of January a slalom race took place in Zagreb, Croatia. While winter fully hit the Alps with lots of snow, the Völkl athletes showed a strong performance.
Markus Salcher is preparing himself for the World Cup winter. Even before the season has started, the austrian paralamic skier has the chance to win once again the award at the Lotterien Sporthilfe Gala on the 31st of October.
Two of the world's best park skiers; Øystein Bråten and Tiril Sjåstad Christiansen joined up with Freeskier and Mountain Guide Stian Hagen to be mentored into backcountry skiing. They spent the week in Leivassbu lodge in the Norweigian, Jotunheimen mountains, to learn about avalanche safety and backcountry travel. Judging by the smiles on their faces, we will be seeing more of them outside the park in the future.
The Engadine Ski Marathon first took place in 1969. Around 900 participants back then took on the challenge and survived a 42 kilometer-long course, starting from Maloja and ending in Zuoz. Fifty years later, around 13.000 participants from over sixty countries travel to Switzerland in order to race, making the event the second biggest of its kind in the world.
It was an impressive event with Voelkl Marker Dalbello team riders Andri Ragettli and Jennie- Lee Burmansson winning the Crystal Globe for the 2017/2018 season.
Andri Ragettli has risen to become one of the top Slopestyle skiers in the world. This episode takes a close and personal look into how this happened, his story from past, to present to now looking to the future goals. Andri comes from Laax Switzerland where skiing runs in his family, his blood, it is in his history, it is his life. We also check out his biggest highlight from last season at the Nine Royals where he was the first person in the world to landed a Quad Cork 1800.
In 2018 the Nine Knights & Queens events transform into The Audi Nines. The first event of this revamped series features a revolutionary SlopeX course combining slopestyle and snow-cross elements. The first Audi Nines are hosted by Sölden in Tyrol, Austria from the 9th to the 14th of April 2018.
Andri Ragettli has released VLOG2. From now on Andri will keep us updated what's happening in his life in the lead up to the olympics. Mostly the videoblog will be about skiing competitions and training but also school, events and private life. In this episode he goes to the Milan City Big Air and there is a pro model shades giveaway.
It was an impressive event with Voelkl Marker Dalbello team riders Øystein Bråten winning the men’s event and Jennie- Lee Burmansson winning the ladies. The FIS World Cup Slopestyle was held on the Stubai Glacier in Austria and was the first slopestyle event in the Northern hemisphere.
Join Stian Hagen with Austin Ross and Nadine Wallner on a train journey across the Norwegian landscape in search of ski touring and beautiful scenery. Departing Oslo, the group connected to the world famous Flåm Railway in Myrdal to explore the local ski touring before departing to Bergen.
This was the first World Cup Big Air event for the season. The Big Air is located on a former site of Milan’s Expo and is one of the most exciting venues on tour, just 10km from the center of Milan. The riders drop in on a 40m competition ramp.
While winter has arrived in central Europe and in North America, Lapland has been enjoying winter conditions for a few weeks now and Levi hosted a ladies’ and a men’s slalom the past week-end, on the 11th and 12th November.
Andri Ragettli has released his first Video Blog- Vlog (School & Prime Park), you can now follow Andri on his journey to the approaching Olympics. This episode is about his school and training in Stubai, Austria. He will release a new episode every 2 weeks so stay tuned for more great edits to come in the lead up to the Winter Olympics.
X Games Norway; 15 year old Jennie-Lee Burmansson Wins GOLD in the Big Air and Tiril S. Christiansen takes the Bronze. In the men’s Oystein Braaten takes home the Bronze.
The Veteran of the Swiss slalom team Marc Gini announced his goodbye to his skiing carrer. The 32 year-old athlete from Graubünden is the last Swiss World Cup winner in the discipline.
Many of the world’s best female and male skiers came together for the grand finale of the Suzuki Nine Royals at Watles, South Tyrol, Italy on April 1st, 2017. Under a hazy sky, the women and men proved their creativity and technical prowess to the delight of cheering crowds and judges. Over the course of two jam sessions, judges determined the winners using a unique format: a combined score of two technical tricks and one style trick. After a week of photo and film sessions, it was Andri Ragettli (SUI, ski) and Coline Ballet-Baz (FRA, ski) who topped the podiums.
Stefano Gross impressed in the first run with a 1.15 margin by Micheal Matt and he found his pace in both runs and managed to hold claim a second place, only +0.30 behind the winner.
The Marker Voelkl Freeski team win the GOLD and BRONZE medals at the XGames Slopestyle in ASPEN on the weekend. It is a dream come true for the Norwegian Oystein Braaten who had a stomping run taking the GOLD medal.
In super-G training in Saalbach, Austria World Cup skier Cornelia Huetter crashed. The 24-year-old Voelkl athlete suffered an anterior cruciate ligament tear in the right knee as well as a tear of the meniscus. The diagnosis was made by Austrian ski team doctor Torsten Walcher after an MRI and X-ray examination.
Madonna di Campiglio is the oldest Italian World Cup venue, as they hold a Slalom in 1966/67, the year of the foundation of the World Cup. 50 years later, the event is still running and attracting thousands of people for the traditional night race on 22nd of December.
This past January, Völkl was honored to welcome a pair of unusual Afghani athletes, Alishah Farhang and Sajjad Hosseini, to the factory in Straubing. The two are chasing the same dream: representing their country at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games.
