The FIS Nordic Summer Festival in Val di Fiemme is ready to write a new page of history in the cradle of Nordic skiing, with as many as 18 competitions scheduled from September 18 to 21. Ski Jumping, Nordic Combined and Roller-skiing will liven up the location at the renovated Ski Jumping Stadium of Predazzo and in the streets of the centre of Ziano di Fiemme. The best interpreters of each discipline, which for the occasion will gather in the valley in Trentino in the presence of the Dolomites, come from as many as 33 different nations.

The original international event in Val di Fiemme will be, for all intents and purposes, an Olympic Test Event and to honour this important appointment, in view of Milano Cortina 2026, Tina&Milo, the official mascots of the Olympic Games, will also be present, welcoming schools of all levels from Predazzo at the Ski Jumping Stadium on Friday morning, and dispensing smiles and the Olympic spirit even in the late afternoon of Thursday. Not only that, but for the first time ever, Val di Fiemme will also welcome the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic torches, which for the occasion will be exhibited during the competitions at the Stadium in Stalimen.

Ski jumpers will be the ones to inaugurate the special edition of the FIS Nordic Summer Festival on Friday, September 18, with the Individual on the HS109. Among the most awaited protagonists, there is the world champion Nika Prevc (SLO), Sara Takanashi and Nozomi Maruyama (JPN), but also Katharina Schmid (GER) and Eva Pinkelnig (AUT), as well as the former Nordic Combined skier who recently switched to Ski Jumping, Gyda Westvold Hansen (NOR). Annika Sieff, instead, will lead the Italian team, with Jessica Malsiner, Martina Ambrosi, Martina Zanitzer and Noelia Vuerich. While practising on the ramps of the Predazzo Ski Jumping Stadium, the winner of the last Four Hills Tournament, Daniel Tschofenig (AUT), will be in good company with the Olympic champion Ryoyu Kobayashi (JPN), the World Cup holder Stefan Kraft (AUT) and the defending FIS Summer Grand Prix champion Pawel Wasek (POL), with jumpers such as Jan Hörl, Niklas Bachlinger and Manuel Fettner (AUT), Lovro Kos, Domen Prevc and Timi Zajc (SLO) and Philipp Raimund and Karl Geiger (GER) to enrich the start lists of Val di Fiemme. The Italians called up by the TD Ivo Pertile are instead Giovanni Bresadola, Francesco Cecon and Alex Insam. In the Ski Jumping programme, there are also the Individual on the HS143 (Saturday 20) and the men’s Super Team on the HS143 (Sunday 21) competitions.

Regarding the Nordic Combined, which will keep both the women's and men’s categories in the top summer event of the FIS Summer Grand Prix busy awarding the coveted crystal globes for the 2025 edition, nations such as Norway, Germany, Slovenia, France and Japan are ready to line up their spearheads. Among women, the reference names are those of the defending FIS Summer Grand Prix champion Jenny Nowak (GER) and the current overall ranking leader Nathalie Armbruster (GER), as well as the current world champion Yuna Kasai (JPN). On the men’s side, instead, the Olympic champion Vinzenz Geiger (GER) will be closely followed, together with the German champion Johannes Rydzek (GER) and the unfailing discipline veteran Akito Watabe (JPN). Veronica Gianmoena, Daniela Dejori, Anna Senoner and Greta Pinzani are ready to take action for Italy, together with Samuel Costa, Raffaele Buzzi, Aaron Kostner, Iacopo Bortolas, Alessandro Pittin and Domenico Mariotti.

As a good capital of ‘summer cross-country skiing’, Ziano di Fiemme will be the centre of the Roller-skiing races (also for the asphalt fractions of the Nordic Combined) and will welcome the discipline’s champions, among whom the Italians stand out, with Italy that has always been a reference nation in the international movement.

Matteo Tanel and Tommaso Dellagiacoma will lead the Italian team that will have to face, in particular, the Swedish talents: the Scandinavian federation, at the FIS Nordic Summer Festival for the Sprint, Mixed Team Sprint and Mass Start, has called up its best athletes among whom stand out Ebba Stenman, Johanna Holmberg and Kasja Ekenberg as well as Simon Karlsson, Ville Jutterdal and Eddie Pettersson.

A few days before the start of the original FIS Nordic Summer Festival, the atmosphere begins to get lively in Val di Fiemme. The Nordic Ski organising committee and its tireless volunteers are working to guarantee the smooth running of the sporting competitions, which will be surrounded by a rich program of side events between live music, good local food and extensive media coverage of the event to ensure a great sports celebration for everyone with a view to the increasingly anticipated Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Highlights of the side proposal of Fiemme will be the parties at the Fiemme Party Tent at the Ski Jumping Stadium (from Thursday to Sunday) and the evocative Light Shows (Thursday and Saturday).

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