Endurance sports is the passion of Josef Gruber. After his international career as logistics and process manager he graduated as sports scientist in sports management and training. In his sports career he competed in more than ten ironman and several other triathlon races with excellent results, participated twice in gigathlon and completed several ski mountaineering and ultra trail races. With his sports agency he organises skimountaineering as well as several triathlon and trailrunning events throughout the year and offers personal coachings and courses. Since 2016 he was the sports coordinator of skimountaineering of the Austrian Ski Federation (OESV) and fully responsible for the athletes, their training and races, marketing and sponsorship, education, and youth programmes. Josef Gruber was the ISMF Coach Representative from March 2019 to 2021. As ISMF Sports & Event Manager Josef was responsible for all sport and event related topics within ISMF from 2022 to 2024, like World Cup and Youth World Cup and several others. Since 2024 Josef is the IF Delegate for Milano-Cortina 2026. The principles of his life are: ‘everything is possible’ and ‘always think positive’!