Peter Barandun Proposed For Election As Sole Swiss Ski President

The Swiss-Ski Executive Board has unanimously agreed that Peter Barandun will lead the association as sole President instead of Co-President. An additional Vice President will be elected to replace the retiring Co-President Urs Lehmann.

The corresponding elections will be held at an extraordinary delegate meeting on Wednesday, October 22, in Aarau.

Urs Lehmann will step down from the Swiss Ski Presidency in mid-September after 19 years, as he will assume his new position as CEO of the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) at the end of September.

Peter Barandun has been a member of the Swiss Ski Executive Board since 2012; he served as Vice President until his election as Co-President at the 2024 Delegates' Assembly. Peter Barandun is CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Electrolux Switzerland.

"I look forward to continuing our journey together in a different constellation," says Peter Barandun. "Based on the countless positive reactions and discussions over the past few days and weeks, I am firmly convinced that we will once again be able to propose an ideally suited person to complete the Executive Board at the Extraordinary Delegates' Meeting." Nominations from voting clubs and regional associations can be submitted until September 28.

The planned change from two co-presidents (Urs Lehmann and Peter Barandun) and one vice-president (Tamara Wolf) and one vice-president (Claude-Alain Schmidhalter) to one president and three vice-presidents does not change the long-established path of broader distribution of leadership responsibility. "Quite the opposite," says Peter Barandun. "The election of Tamara Wolf as vice-president of the Swiss 2038 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Association, replacing Urs Lehmann, is a prime example of how we are distributing Urs's responsibilities among several people."