Skip to content
📷 GEPA pictures
📷 GEPA pictures

Press release -

Atle Lie McGrath on the podium in the Parallel Slalom in Lech

Racing to third place in the parallel event in Lech/Zürs, Atle Lie McGrath makes an impressive return to form on Sunday. After finishing second in Alta Badia last season, his first World Cup podium finish, the 21-year-old Norwegian athlete was forced to end his season prematurely in January due to a ligament injury.

"It's amazing that Atle Lie McGrath is back on the podium. He delivered a great performance in Sölden, but then unfortunately dropped out. Finishing on the podium at the next opportunity is what I consider a perfect start to the season. I am convinced we will be seeing a lot more of Atle," says HEAD Racing Director Rainer Salzgeber. "It was a shame that he fell in the semi-final because he was already in front then as well. Alexis Pinturault - who won in Lech last year - was unfortunately eliminated despite putting in the fastest qualifying run. But overall, there is nothing to complain about."

Victory against Kristoffersen in duel for third place

Atle Lie McGrath beat his compatriot Henrik Kristoffersen by 15 hundredths of a second in the duel for third place. In the previous run, the HEAD Worldcup Rebel had to admit defeat to Austria's Dominik Raschner in the semi-finals after a fall just in front of the finish line. In the quarter-finals, Atle Lie McGrath won against Adrian Pertl from Austria, and in the last 16 against Cyprien Sarrazin from France. Alexander Schmid from the HEAD team also qualified for the finals. In the end, the German athlete finished in 14th place.

📷 GEPA pictures

Sara Hector finishes fifth, Lena Dürr seventh

On Saturday, there was the women's Parallel Slalom event in Lech/Zürs. Sara Hector was the best HEAD athlete in fifth place. The Swedish athlete won against Katharina Liensberger from Austria in the best 16. In the quarter-finals, Sara Hector had to admit defeat to the later winner Andreja Slokar from Slovenia. Also among the top-16 were Lena Dürr from Germany in seventh place, Coralie Frasse Sombet from France in tenth place and the two Swiss athletes Vanessa Kasper and Lara Gut-Behrami, who finished in 14th and 15th place.

📷 GEPA pictures

Topics




About HEAD

HEAD is a leading global manufacturer and marketer of premium sports equipment and apparel.

Our business is organized into five divisions: Winter Sports, Racquet Sports, Diving, Sportswear and Licensing. We sell products under the HEAD (alpine skis, ski bindings, ski boots, snowboard and protection products, tennis, racquetball, paddle, squash and pickleball racquets, tennis balls and tennis footwear, sportswear and swimming products), Penn (tennis balls and racquetball balls), Tyrolia (ski bindings) and Mares, SSI and rEvo (diving) brands. The Company´s key products have attained leading market positions based on sales and reputation and have gained high visibility through their use by many of today´s top athletes.

Contacts

  • Layout_Newsdesk_Header_Image_mcgrath
    Layout_Newsdesk_Header_Image_mcgrath
    License:
    Media Use (Followers only)
    File format:
    .jpg
    Size:
    1920 x 1080, 1.65 MB
  • GEPA-20211114-101-134-6046
    GEPA-20211114-101-134-6046
    License:
    Media Use (Followers only)
    File format:
    .jpg
    Size:
    3990 x 2660, 4.17 MB
  • GEPA-20211023-801-811-0021
    GEPA-20211023-801-811-0021
    License:
    Media Use (Followers only)
    File format:
    .jpg
    Size:
    3103 x 1940, 3.55 MB

Related content

  • 📷 GEPA pictures

    Lara Gut-Behrami so close to victory

    Lara Gut-Behrami skied seamlessly from one great season to the next at the opening event of the 2021/22 World Cup in Sölden. The Swiss athlete finished second in the Giant Slalom on the Rettenbach Glacier in Tyrol on Saturday, missing victory by just 14 hundredths of a second. In the men's Giant Slalom on Sunday, winner of the discipline last season - Alexis Pinturault - finished in fifth place.

  • Nef, Luitz, Venier, Nestvold-Haugen, Cochran-Siegle

    Five new athletes join the HEAD Worldcup Rebels

    With newcomers Stefan Luitz, Stephanie Venier, Tanguy Nef, Ryan Cochran-Siegle and Leif Kristian Nestvold-Haugen, the HEAD World Cup Rebels enter the 2021/22 season stronger than ever. HEAD team colleagues Ted Ligety, Bernadette Schild, Manuel Osborne-Paradis, Jonathan Nordbotten and Alice McKennis retire from ski racing.

  • GEPA pictures

    HEAD World Cup Rebels are the best ski team in the world

    The finals in Lenzerheide saw one of the most successful seasons in HEAD's history draw to a close. With seven World Championship Gold medals, one overall World Cup Crystal Globe and four World Cup discipline Crystal Globes, as well as 19 World Cup victories, the HEAD World Cup Rebels delivered a unique class of performance.

  • 📷 GEPA pictures

    HEAD triple victory at the speed discipline opening in Lake Louise

    In the first speed race of the season, the Downhill in Lake Louise on Saturday, the HEAD Worldcup Rebels impressively confirmed their clear position as number 1 in this discipline with a triple victory. Matthias Mayer from Austria won in Canada ahead of his compatriot and Downhill World Champion Vincent Kriechmayr and Beat Feuz from Switzerland,.

  • 📷 GEPA pictures

    First Victory this Season for Lara Gut-Behrami

    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. Ale

  • 📷 GEPA pictures

    First Slalom podium for Lena Dürr

    A great start to the World Cup in Slalom for Lena Dürr and the HEAD Worldcup Rebels. The German athlete raced to her first World Cup podium in the Slalom on Saturday in Levi, finishing in third place - the first podium finish in this discipline for the German women ski racers in eight years. Anna Swenn-Larsson celebrated a brilliant comeback in fifth place.

  • 📷 GEPA pictures

    First podium finish for Broderick Thompson

    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, .....