After the huge success at the startup competition, the crisis followed: Moticon failed with sensors in ski boot soles - but then the founders had a good idea.
Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst have achieved their great goal: The beach volleyball duo from Germany are the 2016 Olympic champions in Rio – and a small sports company with a considerable yearly turnover.
In the early 80s, Heinz Mariacher invented the climbing shoe that we know today. The Austrian developed many of the La Sportiva and Scarpa classics – and thus has shaped the industry like no other. His motto today: It can never be too soft.
