KÃlian Jornet Burgada
Kilian Jornet Burgada ( born October 27, 1987 in Sabadell ) is a Spanish ski mountaineer, mountain runners and duathlete combined mountain running and mountain biking from Catalonia.
Life
Jornet began in 1999 with the ski mountaineering. By participating in the Spain Cup in La Molina, he played his first competition in 2000 and has been a member since 2003 of the Spanish national ski mountaineering, since 2007 also in the squad of men. He is member of the international Dynafit team and lives in Puigcerdà.
Already in the junior class he scored numerous championship titles in international and national competitions. For his achievements in ski mountaineering he was in 2004, 2005 and 2006 winner of the Catalan sports prize Premi d' honor català d' esport. Since 2004 he has " high-level athlete " of the Catalan Sports Council ( Consell Català de l' Esport ) and the High Sports Council ( Consejo Superior de Deportes ) of the Spanish Government (No. 40,563,172 - Monana y Escalada ).
In 2005 he presented in mountain running the course record at the Dôme de Neige the Ecrins ( 4,015 m), he won the 2007 by winning four out of seven races and 2008 by winning three of six races in each case as the overall winner the Buff SkyRunner World Series of Federation for Sport at Altitude (FSA ).
His sister Naila Jornet Burgada is also active ski mountaineer.
Success (selection)
Mountain Run / Skyrunning / Trail Running
- 2005: 1st place and 2nd in the overall standings at the " Cuita al Sol " race
- Track record and 1st place Dôme de Neige des Écrins
- 2nd place in the " Vertical Cross ", Andorra
- 2nd place in the " prueba de Copa de España " Buff -Salomon Vallnord
- Years champion and four times first place in the Buff SkyRunner World Series
- 1st place at Mount Ontake Skyrace
- 2nd place team in the Orobie Skyrace ( with Jordi Pascual and Xavier Martin Zapater Bargue )
- 1st place in the Mt Kinabalu Climb International Athlon
- Winning the Ultra-Trail du Mont- Blanc
- Years champion and three times first place in the Buff SkyRunner World Series
- Winning the Ultra-Trail du Mont- Blanc
- 1st place in the Mt Kinabalu Climb International Athlon
- Victory at the Grand Raid Reunion
- Western States Endurance Run victory at
- Winning the Ultra-Trail du Mont- Blanc
- Victory at the Grand Raid Reunion
- World Record Mont Blanc climb
- World Record Matterhorn ascent
Rock climbing
- 2006: 2nd place at the International Championship SkySpeed Climb
Duathlon
- 2006: 1st place Llívia - Duatlon
- 1st place Núria Duatlon
Ski mountaineering / vertical race
- 2002: 2nd place of the cadets in the Spanish Championship Championship team race ( with Gil Erra )
- 4 Place the cadets Spain Cup ski mountaineering
- 5th place in the Cadet Individual Ski Mountaineering Spanish Championship
- 2nd place at the Cadet, World Championship
Works
- Run or Die: The Life of an unconditional runner. Munich: Malik, 2013 ISBN 978-3890297644.