Switzerland’s Stefan Rogentin reacts after his first run REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY Winnerof the Prix Armando trovati 2022 www.aijs.eu
Along with the awarding of the Skieur d’Or, Serge Lang Trophy 2022 (Switzerland Marco Odermatt wins it), the AIJS (Association International Ski Journalists) is also proud to announce the winner of the Fifth edition of the AIJS Photo ski Contest, known as the Prix Armando Trovati award.
Reuters Austrian Chief photographer Leonhard Foeger beat out a strong field of entered photos and was named the winner of the Prix Armando Trovati for his photograph of Switzerlands’s Stefan Rogentin during FIS AUDI Super G World Cup race in Wengen, Switzerland, January 13, 2022.
Leonhard Foeger, Chief Photographer Austria Thomson Reuters : “I was born in the small city of Ried im Innkreis, the home of Fischer ski, August 6, 1965. When Franz Klammer won the downhill gold medal during Innsbruck Olympics in 1976 I was still in school and not even dreaming about being a alpine ski photographer at one time in my life. I finished school in 1984 and moved to Vienna to study agriculture at University. But in 1987 I joined a College for Photography at Vienna’s so called Graphische photo school.
In 1993 when I made my first step into REUTERS I also had to shoot alpine skiing. Since then I covered Alpine Ski World Cup, Alpine Ski World Championships and of course Alpine skiing at Olympic games until now. “
Chief Photographer Austria
Thomson Reuters by Lisi Niesner
12 other photographs were also selected for the annual exhibition that you can also discover on social media each month @PATrovati : Sébastien Boué (L’Equipe), Alexander Hassenstein (Bongarts / Getty Images), Elvis Piazzi, Lisi Niesner (Reuters), Fabrice Coffrini (Agence France-Presse), Jean Christophe Bott (Keystone), Bisi Luciano, Alexis Boichard (Zoom), Denis Balibouse (Reuters), Giovanni Pizzato, Francesca Soli.
AIJS would like to thank all of the photographers who entered their pictures in this year’s contest and the panel of judges: AIJS President, M. Patrick Lang, FIS Deputy Secretary General, Niklass Carlsson, Wire Agency Representative Eric GAILLARD (Reuters), Alessandro and Marco Trovati and Aksel Lund Svindal.
AIJS Skieur d’Or Serge Lang Trophy and Prix Armando Trovati Ski Photo Contest winners will be annouced during Forum Alpinum on 21st October at Sölden