The E-Bike Festival Tignes-Val d’Isère is part of the E-Bike World Tour with a second event to follow in 2021: The Verbier E-Bike Festival Verbier with its flagship event E-Tour du Mont-Blanc (E-TMB). Teams of two professional riders will compete in a 3-days-stage race in Switzerland, Italy, and France all around the iconic Mont-Blanc.
The E-Tour de Haute Tarentaise is the race for expert bikers looking for adrenaline and pushing themselves to the limit. It constitutes the kick-off of the E-Bike World Tour. Nathalie Schneitter (SUI/EMTB- & MTB-World Champion, former Olympic athlete), Nadine Sapin (FRA/5 time 1001 Enduro Tour winner from 2008 to 2012), Marco Fontana (ITA), Christoph Sauser (Cross-country MTB World Champion and Olympic medallist), and the formidable duo of Florian Golay and Olivier Grossrieder (SUI/winning team of the 2019 and 2020 events) have already confirmed they will compete in the E-Bike World Tour 2021 elite races.
The fastest conqueror of the French Alps earns prize money of 10’000 EUR. Their challenge: 2 intense days of alpine racing across the trails of the Haute Tarentaise, a difference in altitude of 10.000 meters and a distance of 200 kilometers between Tignes and Val d’Isère. E-Bike Festival Tignes-Val d’Isère is part of the E-Bike World Tour with a second event to follow in 2021: The Verbier E-Bike Festival Verbier with its flagship event E-Tour du Mont-Blanc (E-TMB). Teams of two professional riders will compete in a 3-days-stage race in Switzerland, Italy, and France all around the iconic Mont-Blanc.
Check out the highlights of the 2021 E-Tour de Haute Tarentaise on Day 1.
The decision at the E-Tour de Haute Tarentaise in Tignes/ Val d’Isère (FRA) fell after 2 intense days of alpine racing across the trails of the Haute Tarentaise, a difference in altitude of nearly 8.000 meters and a distance of 160 kilometers between Tignes and Val d’Isère: Léa Deslandes (FRA) in the women’s competition and Jérôme Gilloux (FRA) in the men’s competition won the first stop of the E-Bike World Tour 2021!
Check out the highlights of the 2021 E-Tour de Haute Tarentaise on Day 2.