Franjo
von Allmen

Switzerland

Alpine Skiing

A speed specialist in the great Swiss tradition, Franjo von Allmen is the latest skier to win downhill gold at both the World Championships and Olympics.

Date of birth	July 24, 2001
Birthplace	Boltigen
Age	25
Nationality	Switzerland
Disciplines	Alpine Skiing Downhill / Alpine Skiing Super G

A real speed demon, Franjo von Allmen likes it best when the slopes are challenging. In fact, he particularly loves it when the piste is more ice than snow so he creates that scratching sound that we hear on TV when he skis around a gate close to the absolute limit. The Swiss skier's love for speed is helping him to quickly reach the top of the world: in his first Super-G, he finished in the top 10, and he made his first podium in only his 12th World Cup race.

Franjo hails from Boltigen, a small village in the Obersimmental district in the Bernese canton. He grew up on a farm and went out on skis for the first time as a two-year-old on the Jaun Pass, and the pursuit has meant the world to him ever since. He sometimes missed the award ceremonies as a boy because he was already back on the slopes with his friends. He's so fast that the village's butcher shop has dedicated a sausage to him – how many other skiers can say that?

Carpenter turned world champ

In 2024–25, Franjo made the podium his home, finishing on the box no less than seven times across the season. He also scored his first FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup victory. Not in his favoured downhill however, but the Super-G in Wengen on weekend when he also scored second in the downhill. He didn't have to wait long for his debut DH win however, skiing to the win on home snow in Crans-Montana and then adding a second downhill win two weeks later in Kvitfjel, Norway, which helped him to second in the Downhill World Cup standings.

He also competed in his first FIS Alpine Skiing World Championships and won gold in both the downhill event and the team combined. "It sounds crazy. I just try to put the emotions in the right place, but it feels amazing," said the Swiss skier. "I had no pressure, nothing to lose, just trying to do my best performance."

Skiing has long dominated Franjo's life, but he strives to find balance. He is a trained carpenter; he helps out at a teaching company in the summer, and whenever he can, he rides motocross with his friends or races down the mountain on his downhill bike. "It's not all that good, but I love it incredibly much," he says of the bike.

Above all, Franjo is pursuing one dream: to always have fun. What are the last words he hears at the top of the slope before every race? “Rock ’n’ roll and enjoy!”

A golden Games in Milan

There are few athletes in history who can stand proud and say they've won three Olympic gold medals, let alone all in one Games on their debut - but that's exactly what Franjo did during a golden couple of weeks in Milano-Cortina.

Kicking off the entire Games in spectacular style with his first gold in the Men's Downhill, the opening medal event of Milano-Cortina 2026, Franjo then added two more golds in the Men's Team Combined and Super-G finals to complete that golden hat-trick in what was one of the great stories of the entire Games.

Now the undisputed fastest man on skis, Franjo Von Allmen is really only just getting started, so expect many more medals and records to fall his way.