diff --git a/bindings/pyroot/pythonizations/test/ml_dataloader.py b/bindings/pyroot/pythonizations/test/ml_dataloader.py
index 98200fcc245e9..19617ef806a66 100644
--- a/bindings/pyroot/pythonizations/test/ml_dataloader.py
+++ b/bindings/pyroot/pythonizations/test/ml_dataloader.py
@@ -8123,6 +8123,7 @@ def test08_round_trip(self):
         np.testing.assert_array_equal(w.flatten(), np.full(20, 0.5))
 
 
+@unittest.skipUnless("imt" in ROOT.gROOT.GetConfigFeatures().split(), "ROOT was built without implicit multi-threading")
 class DataLoaderImplicitMT(unittest.TestCase):
     file_name = "dataloader_imt.root"
     tree_name = "mytree"