MERRELL AND THE SKYRUNNER WORLD SERIES JOIN FORCES AGAIN FOR 2022

Merrell athlete, Georgia Tindley ©Guillem Casanova

The Skyrunner® World Series has unveiled Merrell as the official supplier of the 2022 season. 

Following a successful 2021, the Skyrunner® World Series and Merrell look forward to joining forces once again for the 2022 season. Due to cancellations and postponed events, this will be the first full season since the official circuit and the outdoor brand announced their partnership before the pandemic in early 2020.

As was the case then, the goal remains the same: to keep enthusiasm within the global community high and encourage more athletes – elite and non-elite – to get involved with the sport.

By regrouping the world’s most technical races and visiting new countries, the circuit continues to become more interesting to new athletes and fans around the world, providing Merrell with a global platform to showcase their new performance product range and growing international athlete team.

“We are delighted to have Merrell supporting the series again”, comments Seana Forbes, Skyrunner® World Series representative, “Merrell’s products fit our vision completely and with Merrell athletes continuously performing well and appearing on SWS podiums throughout the season, it is clear that the Merrell performance range has been designed for technical skyrunning terrain. Through the partnership, our aim is to make the sport more accessible to people all over the world and open it up to a wider audience.”

Since being founded in 1981, Merrell have made it their mission to remove barriers to enjoying the outdoors. Over the last four decades, the outdoor company has continued to develop high-performance products that last, including the introduction of the new technical MTL “Sky” range, released in spring/summer 2020 and continuously developed each year together with the elite Merrell racing team.

“Having this partnership gives us a strong presence in the world of skyrunning and mountain sports. The circuit speaks to our heritage and our vision of where we want to go as a brand. Our newest product line was built for skyrunning; therefore, we could not think of a better event for Merrell to be involved with.” Said Shaun Bohnsack, senior product director for performance products at Merrell. “Our whole Merrell Test Lab of products was built working together with skyrunning athletes and the products that we have built through the Merrell Test Lab, the MTL long Sky and the MTL Sky Fire, were both designed with skyrunning in mind, so the end use was really these events. We have a very strong group of elite skyrunners this year who represent exactly what Merrell stands for.”

The impressive international Merrell team now includes 2019 SkyMasters champion and 2021 overall champion, Denisa Dragomir of Romania; Swedish skyrunning stars Lina and Sanna El Kott; British athletes Georgia Tindley and Hector HainesAnder Inarra of Spain and the female number 10 in the 2019 overall ranking, Oihanna Azkorbebeitia, also of Spain

Starting with Skyrace des Matheysins on May 8th 2022, fans can follow the Merrell athletes as they travel the world competing in the skyrunning circuit and testing themselves, and the Merrell products, on a variety of different types of terrain and environments that are unique to each location.

Follow the Hashtag #MerrellTrailTeam on InstagramFacebook and Twitter for all the latest updates and news from the Merrell team as well as the official Skyrunning accounts on FacebookTwitter and Instagram.

Head over to Merrell to find out more about the Skyrunning performance range and athletes.

 

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