Federico Galera Díez (born 11 February 1978) is a Spanish
ski mountaineer
Ski mountaineering (abbreviated to skimo) is a skiing discipline that involves climbing mountains either on skis or carrying them, depending on the steepness of the ascent, and then descending on skis. There are two major categories of equipmen ...
and
mountain runner
Mountain running is a sports discipline which takes place mainly off-road in mountainous terrain, but if there is significant elevation gain on the route, surfaced roads may be used. In this it differs from fell running; also its courses are more ...
.
Galera was born in
Madrid
Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...
. He started ski mountaineering in 1996 and competed first in the same year. His twin brother Carlos is also a ski mountaineer.
Selected results
Ski mountaineering
He won two European "espoirs" class champion titles, was Spanish champion and winner of a Spanish Cup in the same class. In 1998 he became a member of the national ski mountaineering team, was three times Spanish Cup winner and four times Spanish champion in the "seniors" class.
* 2001:
** 9th,
European Championship team race (together with his brother Carlos)
* 2006:
** 6th,
World Championship
A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ...
relay race (together with
Javier Martín de Villa
Javier Martín de Villa (born 23 August 1981) is a Spanish ski mountaineer.
Martín was born in Madrid. He started ski mountaineering in 1998, competed first in the Trofeo Altos Pirineos race and became a member of the national team in the sam ...
, Manuel Pérez Brunicardi and
Patrouille des Glaciers
* 2000: 6th ("seniors I" class ranking), together with
Manuel Pérez Brunicardi
Manuel "Manu" Pérez Brunicardi (born 22 August 1978) is a Spanish ski mountaineer.
Pérez was born in Segovia. He started ski mountaineering in 1995 and competed first in 1996. In 1999 he became a member of the national team. He won the Spani ...
and
Jorge Palacio Sanz
Jorge is a Spanish and Portuguese given name. It is derived from the Greek name Γεώργιος (''Georgios'') via Latin ''Georgius''; the former is derived from (''georgos''), meaning "farmer" or "earth-worker".
The Latin form ''Georgius'' ...
* 2010: 9th ("seniors II" class ranking), together with Carlos Galera Díez and
Francisco Javier Rodriguez Bodas
Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name ''Franciscus''.
Nicknames
In Spanish, people with the name Francisco are sometimes nicknamed "Paco". San Francisco de Asís was known as ''Pater Comunitatis'' (father of ...
''2010 Patrouille des Glaciers''
Mountain running
* 1st, ''Cross Alpino del Telégrafo''
External links
Federico Galera
at ''skimountaineering.org''
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Galera Diez, Federico
1978 births
Living people
Spanish male ski mountaineers
Athletes from Madrid
Spanish male mountain runners
Twin sportspeople
Spanish twins