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From the FasterSkier archive — posts syndicated from athletes’ and coaches’ own blogs between 2004 and 2012, kept online as published. Current coverage is at fasterskier.com.

Tag: Julbo USA

  • Vision & Success: Julbo Cross Country Ski Athletes

    Julbo USA

    (Press release)

    WILLISTON, VT- Since entering the nordic ski market in the U.S. in early January of 2015, Julbo Eyewear and its network of athletes have wasted no time making their mark on competition at all levels. Former Birkie winner, Matt Liebsch kicked off the marathon season with wins in the Sisu Marathon in Ironwood, Michigan, a win at the City of the Lakes Loppett and an American Mora Vassaloppet victory (his 6th victory in the race). He will toe the line in the American Birkebeiner later this month.

    Lex Treinen continued a strong domestic campaign, after a silver medal at this year’s U.S. Cross Country Championships, with multiple top five finishes included a third place finish at the recent Craftsbury Super Tour 15K Classic event. Treinen will head to Europe to compete in Europa Cup events next week.

    Meanwhile in Europe, Julbo athletes, Ben Saxton and Annie Pokorny qualified and raced in the U23 World Championships held in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Saxton faired particularly well taking home a sixth place finish in the classic sprint and earning a discretionary spot on the U.S. World Championship team to compete next week in Falun, Sweden.

    “It has been a goal of  mine all year long to make the World Championship team, and there’s no way I would have been able to perform a the level to do so without my sponsors. My Julbo eyewear allow me to forget about any vision worries and race at a World Championship level, there is no other company I would want to work with,” Saxton explained.

    Saxton will join fellow U.S. Ski Team member and fellow Julbo Athlete, Noah Hoffman who has made a strong recovery after breaking his leg in the opening World Cup Weekend in Finland back in early December. Hoffman explained, “I feel incredibly lucky to be heading back to the World Cup and to the World Championships in Falun. After breaking my leg in the first race of the season,  my recovery has gone as quickly and smoothly as anyone could have hoped. I could not have done it without the help of a world class medical team. I am very excited and nervous to return to racing. I have some great opportunities to accomplish my goals and make progress towards my career goal of being the best cross country skier in the world. I am also excited to be joining a team of incredible athletes who are building momentum as the season progresses.”

    Julbo cross country athletes use a variety of Julbo styles, all with photochromic lenses, including the Sniper, the Venturi, and the Dust. For more information, log onto www.julbousa.com

  • Julbo Enters Cross Country Ski Market, Adds Elite Athlete Partners

    Noah Hoffman (Photo: Julbo USA)

    (Press release)

    Julbo USA is excited to announce its entrance into the high end cross country ski market and the addition of elite U.S. Nordic skiers.With over 125 years in business, the eyewear brand based in France’s Jura Mountains has a profound history in the mountaineering and ski mountaineering worlds. From this history, Julbo eyewear has produced unrivaled technical products geared towards mountain and snow sports. “We’re a mountain brand with  followings from sports that require highly technical products,” explained Julbo USA CEO, Nick Yardley. “If you look at the Julbo culture, you see people in mountaineering, backcountry skiing, ultra and trail running and enduro mountain biking. Cross country skiing at the high end is an obvious pairing for us”

    Julbo USA  Cross Country athletes this year include U.S. Team members, Noah Hoffman and Ben Saxton, former Birkebeiner winner, Matt Liebsch and elite racers Annie Pokorny of the Stratton/T2 team and Lex Treinen of the APU program.

    Of the new partnership with Julbo, Noah Hoffman wrote on his blog:

    “When I started looking into who is on the Julbo team, I knew they must make great products. The headliner for the team is Frenchman Martin Fourcade, arguably the best biathlete in the world. Fourcade is a two-time Olympic champion (in Sochi), a five-time World Champion and three-time winner of the overall World Cup for biathlon. Also on the Julbo team are Glen Plake (U.S. big mountain skier who you may have seen in any number of ski films with his trademark blond Mohawk), Dylan Bowman (an ultra-marathoner living in Aspen who I admire through a mutual friend) and my teammate on the U.S. Ski Team for cross country Ben Saxton. I am proud to be on the Julbo team with these athletes,”

    Cross country athletes have their choice of models to select from Julbo’s performance lineup. The Julbo Sniper being the single product that all athletes selected.

    For more information on Julbo eyewear and Julbo products, see their US website: www.julbousa.com

    Ben Saxton (Photo: Julbo USA)