In addition to these, ski professionals such as Franz Klammer, Phil Mahre, and Ingemar Stenmark already relied on our bindings, so the binding manufacturer's visibility grew and grew. MARKER was therefore able to win over the target group of amateur skiers in 1970. In the 1970s, the affordable M Series with automatic heel release revolutionized the binding market. In the same decade, under the slogan 'Stürze sind unvermeidbar, Verletzungen minimierbar' ('Falls are unavoidable, injuries can be minimized'), MARKER launched two new, sensational bindings on the market called Telemat and Rotamat, which made skiing even safer thanks to automatic heel mechanisms and the spring lock principle.ġ965: The new Rotamat with Simplex system In the 60s – when alpine skiing became a sport for the masses – MARKER also received its first TÜV certificate, which laid the foundation for the unique safety features of our bindings today. But these technical achievements were not enough for Hannes Marker: with constant product enhancements, he made skiing safer for amateur skiers.

More than five million Duplexes were sold in the following years. When the German ski racer Ossi Reichert won the first Olympic gold medal for MARKER in 1956, this would not be the last Olympic success for us. In the same year, he founded MARKER, based in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. In 1952, a man from Garmisch invented something that was to start a new era in skiing: Hannes Marker launched the first safety binding on the market and thus laid the foundation for our brand. How it all started – a success story takes shape Today, we are one of the most influential and successful sports brands in the world. Hannes Marker presented his MARKER Duplex, the world's first ski binding with a releasing toe, on three square meters of exhibition space and a chair. In 1952, when the sporting goods trade fair in Wiesbaden, Germany, opened its doors to the world, nobody could have imagined that an ambitious ski instructor from faraway Garmisch, Germany, would become the center of attention and fundamentally change the world of skiing. Today, skiing is a popular sport – a development in which our founder Hannes Marker played a key role. Since MARKER was founded in 1952 by Hannes Marker, the traditional Bavarian company has developed into one of the most successful and influential binding manufacturers in the world.

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