Salomon Winter Athletes in Top Form as 2022 Begins

Salomon winter athletes in top form as 2022 begins

As a new calendar year begins, a number of Salomon’s winter sports athletes are in top form, with the team’s Alpine and Nordic skiers grabbing podium results in big numbers.

Two weeks into the New Year, Salomon’s Nordic Skiing and Biathlon teams are off to their best season start ever using S/LAB skis and boots. A year ago at this time, Salomon athletes had 49 podium results. This year, they have notched a whopping 70.

American Nordic skier Jessie Diggins has already won twice this season with the help of her trusted team of ski technicians from Salomon and the US Ski Team. Last season, the 30-year-old Minnesota native won the World Cup overall title and the famed Tour de Ski.

“I have raced every World Cup of my career on Salomon skis, so every breakthrough and every big moment I get to share with the amazing team at Salomon,” Diggins said. “They are the ones who helped me get there with such care, attention to detail, and great service all winter long! I’m so incredibly proud to be a Salomon athlete and be part of such a supportive ski family.”

Also on skinny skis, Sweden’s Maja Dahlqvist is the Sprint World Cup leader and has five victories on the season, while Tatiana Sorina of Russia has two podium results.

On the men’s side, France’s Richard Jouve is 2nd in the Sprint Overall Standings and has three podiums this season. Norway’s Sjur Røthe has stood on the podium twice, including one victory.

In Biathlon, Norway’s Marte Olsbu Røiseland is the World cup overall leader, with nine podium results, including seven wins. Frenchman Simon Desthieux has four podiums, as has Sebastian Samuelsson, who won two races at the season-opening event at the biathlon capital of Oestersund, Sweden. Finally, Norway’s Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen has three wins, and has been on the podium five times overall.

In women’s IBU Biathlon World Cup, all of the leader bibs—Total Score, Sprint, Pursuit, Mass Start, Individual and Under 25—are on the shoulders of Salomon athletes.

Sweden’s Elvira Öberg has eight podium results and four victories already. She has consistently been the fastest skier on tour, which has her currently in 2nd place in the overall standings. A rising star, Öberg is also the highest-ranked skier under the age of 25. France’s Julia Simon is also off to a strong start, with five podiums including a victory. Markéta Davidová of the Czech Republic has also grabbed a win.

On the Salomon Alpine Racing team, Marco Odermatt has blown away the competition in this season’s World Cup giant slalom races, using his Salomon S/Race boots to post five wins and a 2nd place in five GS races. In early January, he became the first Swiss racer in 14 years to win the Adelboden GS.

Italian Marta Bassino had her best season in 2020-21, winning the crystal globe as the World Cup season-long champion in the giant slalom. With three podiums this season, the 25-year-old is in good form and looking to peak as the winter rolls on.

A Super G specialist who can also shine in the downhill, Salomon team member Tamara Tipler already has a 4th place finish this season at the Super G in Lake Louise, Canada, as well as two other top-10 results.

Matthieu Bailet had the best result of his career last season, when he finished 2nd in the Super G at Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria. The Frenchman—who has skied on Salomon equipment since his early childhood—has begun this season well, with two top-10 finishes.

Unfortunately, French skier Victor Muffat-Jeandet will be sidelined indefinitely after suffering a fractured ankle in the abandoned Zagreb slalom race in the first week of the New Year.

In Freestyle Skiing, France’s Antoine Adelisse took 3rd place in Big Air at the Steamboat World Cup stop, showing he is in prime form as 2022 competition heats up. Halfpipe skier Noah Bowman already has one podium result in 2022, finishing 3rd at the World Cup stop in Calgary on New Year’s Day.

In Ski Cross, Sweden’s Sandra Näslund has been absolutely dominant on the women’s circuit, with five victories on the season. The queen of Ski Cross, she won in December at Innichen, Italy and Val Thorens, France, and shows no signs of slowing down in 2022.

Ski Cross racer Bastien Midol—who hails from Salomon’s hometown of Annecy, France—has a win, a 2nd place, and a 3rd place already this season. Like Naeslund, his victory came in December at Innichen, Italy. The crystal globe winner in 2019, he will look to continue his winnings ways in the new year.

Finally, in Snowboarding, Swedish snowboarder Sven Thorgren is enjoying his first season as a Salomon athlete after joining the team in 2021. He came to Salomon because he admired the brand’s lengthy history of working closely with its athletes to make better products.

“I feel really spoiled being on Salomon,” Thorgren says. “The company has given me an opportunity to be a part of the development side of things, which I’m really excited about.”

American rider Dusty Henrickson, who won gold medals at X-Games Slopestyle and Knuckle Huck in 2021, was recently named to the U.S. Olympic team in slopestyle and big air. On the women’s side, 21-year-old Maddie Mastro is currently ranked 6th in halfpipe on the Dew Tour and has also qualified for the US team in Beijing in that event.