Istria300

Meet the Istria300 2026 ambassadors!

This afternoon, we had the pleasure to welcome our Istria300 Ambassadors on stage — and before that, meet them out on the road for the Social Ride. Some of them have stood at this start line with us before, others are joining for the very first time — but all of them bring their own story of pushing limits in completely different sports (from left to right):

🇦🇹 Martin Koch — Former ski jumper, Olympic and World Championship team gold. 4th participation.
🇦🇹 Alban Lakata — 3× MTB marathon world champion. 3rd participation (1× winner, 1× runner-up).
🇦🇹 Nici Schmidhofer — Former alpine ski racer, Super-G world champion 2017. 1st participation.
🇦🇹 Christoph Sumann — Former biathlete, 2× Olympic silver, now Biathlon Sports Director at Ski Austria. 3rd participation.
🇮🇹 Giada Borgato — Former pro cyclist, RAI Sport TV commentator, Giro d'Italia motorbike commentator since 2023. 1st participation.
🇦🇹 Daniel Federspiel — Defending Istria300 2025 champion, winner of the Ötztaler Radmarathon. 2nd participation.
🇸🇮 Klemen Bauer — Former biathlete, World Championship silver, 2× Olympian. 5th participation (DNF 2022, finished every 300km edition since).
🇨🇿 Marcela Joglová — Marathon runner, Tokyo 2021 Olympian. 1st participation.
🇦🇹 Paul Verbnjak — Ski mountaineer, Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympian. 1st participation.
🇮🇹 Manfred Mölgg — Former alpine ski racer, slalom World Cup overall winner 2008. 1st participation.
🇦🇹 Andreas Meklau — Former motorcycle racer, Superbike World Championship (1991–2000, 2004), one race win. 1st participation.
🇦🇹 Gerrit Glomser – Former professional road cyclist, Austrian national road champion 2005, 2× Austria Tour winner · 1st participation

Thank you all for being here with us. 💜