“With a crying eye”
Co-President leaves Swiss Ski-and changes pages
15.08.2025 – 7:15 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
Urs Lehmann was in use for Swiss Ski for 19 years. Now he is devoting himself to a new job – and will work for the World Association in the future.
After almost two decades at the head of the Swiss Ski Association, Urs Lehmann will draw on an international floor: the 56-year-old will be FIS from the end of September of the World Association of the World Association. As Swiss-Ski announced on Friday, Lehmann resigned as co-president.
The Swiss said: “I’m really looking forward to this new challenge.” Cooperation with FIS President Johan Eliasch has recently developed very positively. Now, together with Secretary General Michel Vion, the entire FIS team and the member associations, they want to shape the future of the association. He wanted to be “a bridge builder”. However, he also explained: “As much as I look forward to the new task, I leave Swiss-Ski with a crying eye.”
Johan Eliasch and FIS General Secretary Michel Vion say: “We are very pleased that Urs will come to FIS. The strengthening of our management team by Urs is an important step to ensure that we are best as possible to master the big challenges of the coming years.”
Lehmann will continue to be at the head of Swiss-Ski together with Co-President Peter Barandun until the next ordinary presidium meeting in mid-September. Then he officially takes on his new function at FIS. In the course of his change, he also gives up his further functions: As President of the Organizational Committee of the 2027 Ski World Cup in Crans-Montana and as Co-President of the Association for Swiss Olympic Adult 2038, Lehmann will also withdraw.
The former ski racer ended his active career in 1997. In 1993 he became world champion in the departure in Japanese Morioka. Lehmann has been active in the Swiss-Ski Presidium since 2006, two years later he succeeded Duri Bezzola as President.