European Youth Olympic Festival 2015 on Ski-Line

Anyone who thinks of Peter Riedel GmbH and its innovative technologies at the ski jumping takeoff tracks also thinks of Tchaikovsky, of Trondheim, of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, of Hinzenbach and of many other places where the world elite of ski jumpers repeatedly stops.

And they do not think of… Montafon. Montafon? Please, what? Montafon is a 39-kilometer-long valley in Vorarlberg, Austria, home of alpine Olympic champion Anita Wacher (1988, combined), and (together with Liechtenstein) host of the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) 2015. So far, so good, so clear. And what, please, has Peter Riedel GmbH to do with it?!

Very much! Because as part of EYOF, the Vorarlberg state government approved a Nordic concept for Nordic winter sports costing around 12 million euros in total, but bringing invaluable advantages to Nachwuchsathleten in the Nordic area. In Tschagguns a ski jump facility with four hills is to be built between March 2013 and January 2014. The first competitions could take place in February 2014, just during the Sochi Winter Olympics. One of the 'patrons' of the concept is Toni Innauer, himself a Vorarlberg native, Olympic champion and long-time Nordic director of the Austrian Ski Association.

And when we talk about ski jumping facilities, we also think of the run-up tracks – and thus also of Peter Riedel GmbH, which with Rehau is the company par excellence in this segment of sports facility construction. Company owner Peter Riedel explains: ‘In Tschagguns, four differently sized hills will be erected, on which you can jump year-round. Three of them will be equipped with our Ski-Line system.’ These are HS108, HS66 and HS40 (the fourth facility has an HS22). The two largest hills will feature a cooled year-round run-up track – ice in winter, ceramic in summer.

‘The fact that Ski-Line is involved in an event that was initiated in 1991 by today’s IOC president Jacques Rogge makes us proud and happy,’ says Riedel. ‘The participants from all parts of Europe will be between 13 and 17 years old and are already on the cusp of breaking into the absolute world elite.’

And so it is good that these young athletes also come into contact with the technology from Peter Riedel in Montafon and get used to it. Because they will find it again in Tchaikovsky, in Trondheim, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in Hinzenbach and in many more places!

 

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