The Athletes Health Unit (AHU) is a recently established department that serves as a central point of contact and coordination for health-related topics in all FIS sports.

Vision & Mission

The AHU is based on the idea of working together with all stakeholders to provide a framework which helps FIS-Athletes with their long-term performance by focusing on physical and mental health.

Exploring individual performance capabilities is a balancing act and requires optimal health and risk management.

Comprehensive strategies and structures with corresponding work processes, appropriate to the sports context, are the basis to master these complex challenges.

Focus Areas

Together with relevant experts and collaborating teams, which can either be found within FIS, within NSAs, in the sports-industry, or at selected universities and partner-organizations such as IOC / AIOWF, all AHU-activities are organized within three main pillars:

• Athlete-related topics (e.g. preventative testing and training)

• Equipment-related topics (e.g. protective-gear)

• Framework-related topics (e.g. course design)

Measures

Findings and results related to potential health-protection or risk-management-strategies should lead to appropriate implementation. This can be knowledge dissemination such as information and education, recommendation, regulation, technical innovation, or a combination of these possibilities.

FIS athletes can find further information on the Athletes' Resource Page.

For more information, please contact:
Gerald Mitterbauer | gerald.mitterbauer@fis-ski.com
Michael Lasshofer | michael.lasshofer@fis-ski.com