Monthly Archives: December 2021

Once again, Sara Hector confirmed her superb form in the Giant Slalom in Lienz on Tuesday. The Swedish athlete, who bagged first and second place in the two Giant Slaloms in Courchevel, again raced to the podium in Lienz, where she finished in third place. Vincent Kriechmayr was delighted with his third podium of the season in the Super-G in Bormio on Wednesday.

Two indescribable days in Courchevel for Sara Hector. Following her second place in the Giant Slalom on Tuesday, she won the second Giant Slalom on Wednesday. It was the second World Cup victory for the Swedish athlete after her victory in Kühtai in 2014. Alexander Schmid celebrated a premiere in the second Giant Slalom in Alta Badia on Monday: The 27-year-old German athlete finished in third place on the Gran Risa run, racing to the podium in his speciality discipline for the first time. Alexis Pinturault bagged his first podium finish in the Slalom this season with second place in the Night Slalom in Madonna di Campiglio on Wednesday.

Finishing in second place in the Super-G in Val d'Isere on Sunday, Ragnhild Mowinckel narrowly missed her first win in this discipline. Elena Curtoni finished in third place to bag another HEAD Worldcup Rebel podium in this race. There were also podium finishes for Matthias Mayer and Vincent Kriechmayr in Val Gardena this weekend. Lara Gut-Behrami had to leave Val d'Isere due to a corona infection.

The fitting of a helmet is crucial for your safety.

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Ups and downs for Lara Gut-Behrami at her home event in St. Moritz. In the Super-G on Saturday, the Swiss athlete celebrated her 33rd World Cup victory, the first of the season. On Sunday, the 30-year-old fell during the second Super-G race and managed to escape with bruises. Elena Curtoni finished second in this race, just missing her second World Cup victory by eleven-hundredths of a second. Alexis Pinturault stood on the podium for the first time this season, finishing in second place in the Giant Slalom in Val d'Isere on Saturday.

#HEADswimming's best moments of 2021 with superb images from Carel du Plessis.

A beautiful sunset on a beach in Malta the day before the XTERRA Europe race!

Gaëtan Vivien & Solenne Billouin, two athletes who are crazy for off-road triathlon.

HEAD Swimming wetsuits glued to the body like a second skin!

HEAD presents a new series of DELTA racquets, the most powerful of the collection that includes five new models: Delta Pro, Delta Motion, Delta Elite, EVO Delta and Delta Junior. 

HEAD racquets have been the runaway world No 1 brand on the global professional tennis circuit in 2021. The year ends with five of the top 10 men playing with a HEAD, three of the four men’s Grand Slam tournaments being won by HEAD players, the men’s Olympic gold medal too, and the top women’s player and double-champion at Roland Garros representing the HEAD brand.

In the Super-G in Beaver Creek on Thursday, Broderick Thompson charged to the podium for the first time in his career. The 27-year-old Canadian athlete, who suffered a serious knee injury in 2018, finished third. The HEAD Worldcup Rebels clocked up several more podium finishes in the speed discipline events in Beaver Creek and Lake Louise thanks to Matthias Mayer from Austria and Beat Feuz, Corinne Suter and Lara Gut-Behrami from Switzerland.

Čas od času se můžete ocitnout zády ke zdi. Pochybnosti se hromadí, ale zároveň se v vás rozhořívá dychtivý plamínek. Jak kdysi řekl velký básník Eminem: "Úspěch je moje jediná m********n' možnost, neúspěch nikoliv." Vždyť je to tak. A s podobným krédem se tým v rámci divize HEAD Ski pustil do práce. Úkol, který byl před nimi, však nebyl malý. A na základě předchozích pokusů byl nový začátek zjevně jedinou možností.