Hannah Langes

Profile and significance

Hannah Langes is an Austrian street and park skier who has become one of the key names in the fast-growing European women’s rail scene. Born in 1999 and competing under the Austrian flag, she blends contest results on slopestyle and rail setups with a steadily growing film portfolio. Her riding shows up in Austria Cup rankings, on podiums at events like Rock A Rail, and in all-female street movies such as “Frozen Babiez,” as well as mixtape projects like “Bucket Clips.” Add in a SuperUnknown 20 semi-finalist spot and a growing list of urban clips from Austria, Norway and beyond, and you get a skier who sits right at the intersection of core street culture and more formal competition.

Langes’ importance comes less from chasing FIS World Cup starts and more from how consistently her name appears wherever progressive women’s park and street skiing is happening. She has podium finishes on the Austrian freeski tour, a standout rail result at the Spring Battle in Flachauwinkl, and a second place in Ski Women at the Rock A Rail tour stop during the Hintertux Park Opening. In the film world, she stars in “Frozen Babiez,” contributes to Tereza Korábová’s urban and backcountry project “Relentless” and appears in Rosina Friedel’s “Bucket Clips” series, all of which are touchstones for the current FLINTA* freeski movement. That balance of contests, heavy rail features and collective film work makes her an important reference for anyone tracking the evolution of women’s street skiing.

Competitive arc and key venues

On paper, Langes’ competitive arc runs through the Austrian Cup and continental rail events rather than the classic slopestyle World Cup ladder. In the 2024–25 season she appears in the Austria Cup freeski rankings with multiple podiums, including second place at the QParks Penken Battle slopestyle contest in Mayrhofen and another second place at a Kreischberg slopestyle event. Those results, logged as Two Star contests in the ranking system, show her ability to turn technical rail and jump lines into judged contest runs, not just film clips. Earlier in 2025 she also placed fifth in the Women’s Freeski Best Rail category at the Spring Battle in Absolut Park, one of Europe’s longest-running and most respected park events.

Where Langes really steps into the spotlight is on dedicated rail stages. At the 2025 Rock A Rail tour stop held during the Hintertux season opening, she finished second in the Ski Women category behind Alaïs Develay, with fellow Austrian Sarah Schönach in third, on a creative in-town setup that brought street-style features to the base of the Hintertux Glacier. She has also travelled to Norway for the Norwegian Cup in Geilo, using the trip to combine contest runs with a street mission in Oslo. That blend of national tour events, big-name park contests and high-profile rail jams makes her competitive résumé broad rather than traditional, but perfectly aligned with modern rail-focused freeskiing.

How they ski: what to watch for

Langes is, above all, a rail specialist. In projects like “Frozen Babiez” and her SuperUnknown semi-finalist edit, her riding is built on calm, precise body language and a clear understanding of how to make technical tricks look unforced. She tends to approach features with a low, balanced stance, locking onto rails early and staying centred through the whole slide. Spin-ons, surface swaps and spin-outs in multiple directions all show up in her lines, but they rest on fundamentals: flat bases on kinks, shoulders stacked over her feet, and a head that tracks the rail rather than hunting for the landing too early.

On jumps, she carries the same composed approach. Instead of chasing the biggest possible spin on every hit, her trick choices often prioritise clean takeoffs, well-held grabs and landings that keep enough speed to flow into the next feature or rail. That style is especially visible in contests like the QParks Penken Battle and Spring Battle, where riders need to link a dense set of rails and jumps into one coherent run. In those environments, Langes’ street background helps her stay relaxed and improvisational: if she needs to adjust a line on the fly, she can still find interesting ways to use side hits, wallrides or close-out rails to keep the run creative and complete.

Resilience, filming, and influence

Much of Langes’ influence comes from her film work and her willingness to chase proper street spots, not just park laps. The all-female street movie “Frozen Babiez” places her alongside riders like Alice Michel, Nivi Sachse, Ellen Damsgaard and others on real urban infrastructure: down rails, kinks, close-outs and transfers that demand commitment as well as style. Her segment there, supported by partners including Eivy, helps show how far women’s street skiing has come in a short time and what is possible when a full crew commits to filming in cities all winter.

Langes also appears in “Relentless,” an urban and backcountry movie led by Tereza Korábová, and in the “Bucket Clips” series—short all-female mixtapes that string together shots from dozens of FLINTA* riders worldwide. Being present across all of these projects means that young skiers see her name repeatedly when they look up women’s street skiing, whether on Downdays, Newschoolers or festival lineups. Her SuperUnknown 20 semi-finalist status adds another layer of recognition: Level 1’s contest is still one of the core pathways for underground talent to be seen, and her inclusion there underlines that her skiing speaks to the most dedicated segment of the freeski audience.

Geography that built the toolkit

Geography plays a big role in how Langes skis. As an Austrian rider, much of her development has unfolded in some of Europe’s most influential park and street environments. Events like the QParks Penken Battle take place in the Penken Park above Mayrhofen, where dense jump and rail lines force riders to dial in trick selection and speed management. Spring Battle at Absolut Park in Flachauwinkl exposes her to long, progressive rail setups and international judging standards, pushing her to refine both style and consistency.

At the same time, Langes has made a point of getting beyond Austria’s lift-served parks. Her trip to the Norwegian Cup in Geilo led straight into a street mission in Oslo, where she and her crew spent long days exploring handrails and urban features around the city. Those sessions, with their early mornings, late nights and unpredictable conditions, have clearly fed back into her confidence on in-town setups like Rock A Rail. When she steps onto the scaffolding of a rail contest in Hintertux or later tour stops in European cities, she is drawing on experience earned not just in the park, but on real concrete, stairsets and city snow.

Equipment and partners: practical takeaways

Langes’ equipment choices reflect the reality of urban and rail-focused freeskiing. As part of the CLWR ambassador crew for ColourWear, she rides outerwear designed to handle repeated impacts with metal, snow and concrete while still allowing full freedom of movement for spins and presses. Her base-layer partnership with Eivy adds another layer of function: in interviews she highlights specific fleeces, 3/4 tights and caps that balance warmth, mobility and durability for long days in cold parks or city streets.

For skiers looking to learn from her setup, the takeaways are straightforward. A solid twin-tip park ski with durable edges and a balanced flex is crucial when your season includes both contests like Spring Battle and handrails in urban environments. Outerwear needs to be tough enough to survive crashes, but not so bulky that it interferes with spins or grabs. Base layers and mid-layers should keep you warm without restricting motion, especially during slow, late-night street sessions when there is a lot of standing around between tries. Langes’ choices show that the right gear is less about chasing hype and more about finding equipment that lets you ski consistently, day after day, even when the spot is rough and the weather is marginal.

Why fans and progressing skiers care

Fans care about Hannah Langes because she embodies the current wave of European women’s street and park skiing: technically strong, unafraid of real urban spots, and equally comfortable on contest scaffolding and in low-key film crews. She may not be chasing Olympic qualification or FIS World Cup podiums, but she is stacking results in Austria Cup slopestyle, placing well in rail contests like Spring Battle and Rock A Rail, and appearing in many of the most relevant all-female projects of the last few seasons. For viewers who follow freeski culture through edits and festival lineups rather than TV coverage, that presence matters at least as much as traditional medals.

For progressing skiers—especially women who want to move from resort parks into street and film work—Langes offers a practical, relatable blueprint. Build a strong rail game in your local park, test it in regional contests, travel to bigger events like Penken Battle or Absolut Park, and look for crews and projects where you can film and learn together. Her path shows that you can combine small-venue contests, European rail tours, Norwegian Cups and urban missions into one coherent career, and that being part of collective films can be just as impactful as any individual edit. Watching how she chooses lines, manages risk on rails, and shows up for team projects will give riders a clear sense of what it takes to be part of the new generation driving women’s street skiing forward.