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Amer Sports celebrates Olympic success

05/03/2018
The Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games were a success for the Amer Sports group. Athletes using equipment from its Salomon brand won 18 medals, while the total for competitors using Atomic equipment picked up 11 medals.

Salomon athletes were strong in Nordic disciplines: cross-country skiing, biathlon and Nordic combined. In total, 12 Salomon athletes from six countries earned 18 medals, four of them gold. The gold medals were the first ever in Nordic for Salomon at the Olympic games.

The most medals for Atomic came from alpine skiing. The gold medalists were Marcel Hirscher from Austria in alpine combined and giant slalom, Ester Ledecka from the Czech Republic in Super G, Mikaela Shiffrin from the US in giant slalom and Sofia Goggia from Italy in downhill.



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