Patent ID: 8359771

Claim:
Sports shoe with an outer shell made of injection molded plastic, comprising a front foot shell for supporting the front of the foot and a shoe collar connected thereto for stabilizing the lower section of the leg of a user and with a comparatively flexible inner shoe mounted at least partly in the shell, whereby the inner shoe extends at least in sections over the upper end of the shoe collar, in particular a ski shoe with at least one tightener arranged in the upper end section of the shoe collar running ring-like around the upper end section of the shoe collar, said tightener comprising at least one adjuster for tightening or limiting the width of the entry opening into the sports shoe as desired, and said tightener further comprising a first coupling element connected to said adjuster, a first tightening element extending between said first coupling element and a second coupling element, and a lashing extension connected to said second coupling element, where said first tightening element forms a section of the length of said tightener, and said adjuster, said first coupling element, said first tightening element, said second coupling element, and said lashing extension are arranged in a row and connectable at their ends in a chain-like manner, and where the distal ends of the tightener are connectable to each other so that the tightener is closed in a ring-like manner in its position of use, wherein said section of the length of the tightener is formed by said first tightening element and a second tightening element, said first tightening element and second tightening element are arranged above one another in vertical direction and are essentially parallel to one another, whereby the first tightening element is designed for bearing on the peripheral sections of the comparatively flexible inner shoe or its tongue and the second tightening element is designed to bear against the upper end section of the shoe collar made of a relatively rigid plastic, and wherein with the end sections of each of said first and second tightening elements one of said first and second coupling elements are connected, via which said tightening elements are joined together to form a common tightening strand.