Swiss legend Pirmin Zurbriggen wins gold and bronze at the Calgary Olympics. Ten years later, Pope John Paul II slips away from the Vatican and has a different kind of religious experience. Paparazzi catch Princess Diana wearing Nordica boots in Lech, Austria. Nordica accounts for 30 percent of world production. Other affiliates open in Austria, Japan, Switzerland, France, and Germany. Nordica sets up its first affiliate in the United States. Introduction of the legendary yellow Astral Slalom, the “Nordica banana,” sells 400,000 pairs and establishes the template of the modern racing ski boot. Nordica launches the first high-speed injection-molded plastic ski boot. The year’s great innovation, though, is the all-polyurethane ski boot, with specific molds for the right and left foot. The “buckle” fastening system, invented in Austria, is applied for the first time in Italy by Nordica. Italian racer Zeno Colò, winner of gold medals in the downhill and giant slalom in Aspen, Colorado, lends his name to Nordica’s leather “Zeno Colò Olympic” ski boot. Nordica pioneers an athlete-driven approach to R&D.
Experienced as traders in hides, brothers Adriano and Oddone Vaccari start a footwear and boot-making company in Montebelluna, Italy.
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