The 2021/22 ISMF season starts tomorrow in Pontedilegno-Tonale

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The 2021/22 ISMF season starts tomorrow in Pontedilegno-Tonale

The focus of the WÜRTH MODYF ISMF World Cup will be on the big news for next competitive season, the live streaming of some competitions included in the race calendar. Sprint and Vertical races will be streamed during the Adamello World Cup.

Lausanne, 15 December 2021 – As last year, the first competitive event of the WÜRTH MODYF ISMF World Cup of the 2021/22 season will take place in the ski resort placed around the location of Pontedilegno-Tonale, on the border mountains between Lombardy and Trentino. Three races are scheduled for this first ISMF stage, which will see the best ski mountaineering athletes – from 18 countries – at the starting line.

In the afternoon of Thursday 16 December, the curtain will be raised on this first week of ISMF competitions with a Sprint race – 128 athletes registered – and a Vertical race on the following day, Friday 17 December, always in the afternoon, with a total of 146 racers to compete. Compared to last season, the closure on Sunday 19 December will be dedicated to the Individual race, with 156 competitors expected at the start.

Both the Sprint and the Vertical races will take place on the ski slopes in Pontedilegno. The programme of the first includes the qualifications starting at 16:00 and the Senior Men’s finals around at 20:00, while the start for the second is scheduled at 14:30. Saturday is a rest day, during which the athletes can recover a little and have a track inspection for the Individual race to be held on Sunday morning from 9:30 at Passo Tonale and Presena glacier.

The media attention that the event will enjoy will be even greater than in the past, after the inclusion of ski mountaineering in the programme of the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026.

Compared to the past seasons, this year the ISMF has introduced a great and sensational novelty: live streaming on some of the competitions included in the race calendar (available at https://tv.ismf-ski.org/). In the case of the Adamello World Cup, the Sprint and Vertical races will be streamed. Thanks to the new five-year agreement, starting this winter, the ISMF together with Eurovision Sport will allow skimo fans to follow at least one competition for each stage in real time, directly from home. Read more in the official media information of Eurovision Sport.

The support provided by the aforementioned additional contents will help to bring the WÜRTH MODYF ISMF World Cup to become more and more visible around the world.

In this regard the ISMF Event Director Roberto Cavallo affirms: “I am very proud to be here in Pontedilegno-Tonale again for the Adamello World Cup. After the successful experience of last year, I am sure to be able to recreate the optimal collaboration with the well-trained local organising committee available to support the ISMF staff at any time. I am also very happy about the introduction of the long-awaited live streaming of the races, certain that it represents an invaluable added value to ISMF events.”

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Contact
Roberto Cavallo, Event Director, rcavallo@ismf-ski.org, +39 335 5745945

About the ISMF
Founded in 2007, the International Ski Mountaineering Federation ISMF is the global governing body for ski mountaineering competitions. Since 2016, the organization is officially recognized by the International Olympic Committee IOC. Its main goals are the promotion, regulation and development of the ski mountaineering sport worldwide. Based in Lausanne, Switzerland, the ISMF’s membership consists of 40 national mountaineering or ski sports federations in Europe, Asia and the Americas. The ISMF organizes ski mountaineering World Cups events and World Championships. For the first time, ski mountaineering has been a medal sport at the 2020 Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne Switzerland and has recently been included in the programme of the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026.

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