Hannes Arch
Since the 2007 season, the state-certified mountain and ski guide has been the first Austrian participant in the Red Bull Air Race World Championship, after winning a qualifying round in Phoenix (Arizona) in October 2006.He contested his first race in the series on 6 April 2007 in Abu Dhabi (UAE), where he did not make it past the qualifying round.He achieved this for the first time in his second race in Rio de Janeiro on April 21, finishing fourth and scoring 3 points.[3][4] In 2014, AKG Acoustics launched a professional headset for pilots, which Arch played a key role in developing.Hannes made his mark on the paragliding scene inventing the grueling international competition known as the Red Bull X-Alps, taking the world's most elite paragliding pilots across the Alps from Austria to Monaco entirely by air or foot in a race against the clock.