New members have been elected to the ISMF bureau, Council, International Disciplinary Commission, Anti-Doping Commission and compliance office ©Getty Images

Jordi Canals Fontan has been elected as the new general secretary of the International Ski Mountaineering Federation (ISMF) bureau while new members were appointed to the Council, International Disciplinary Commission, Anti-Doping Commission and compliance office.

The elections took place at the governing body's Plenary Assembly.

Prior to joining the ISMF, Canals Fontan was formerly the sports director for the Spanish Mountaineering Federation.

The Catalan has held a number of roles in the ISMF.

He was a member of the technical working group and an expert on the rules commission.

Jordi Canals Fontan has been elected as the ISMF bureau's new secretary general ©Getty Images
Jordi Canals Fontan has been elected as the ISMF bureau's new secretary general ©Getty Images

Brazil's Anders Pettersson has been elected as a new member of the Council.

He is the first South American to be on the ISMF Council.

Pettersson is a former Brazilian Snow Sports Federation President and has been a Board member of the Brazilian Olympic Committee since 2021.

Lucio Miguel Correia of Portugal, Spain's Iñigo Ayllón Navarro and Italians Lanfranco Massimi, Marco Mapelli and Stefano Tarolli have all been welcomed onto the International Disciplinary Commission.

Nenad Dikic and Marija Andjelkovic of Serbia join Regula Meier as new members of the Anti-Doping Commission, while Russian Maxim Andreevich Soldatkin joins the compliance office.

Ski mountaineering is set to make its Olympic debut at Milan Cortina 2026 after successfully debuting at the Lausanne 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games.