Manuel "Manu" Pérez Brunicardi (born 22 August 1978) is a Spanish
ski mountaineer
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.
Pérez was born in
Segovia
Segovia ( , , ) is a city in the autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain. It is the capital and most populated municipality of the Province of Segovia.
Segovia is in the Inner Plateau ('' Meseta central''), near the northern slopes o ...
. He started ski mountaineering in 1995 and competed first in 1996. In 1999 he became a member of the national team. He won the Spanish Championships in a row from 2002 to 2006. In 2003 he ranked second in the international
ISMC ranking and became "high level athlete" of the high sports council ( es, Consejo Superior de Deportes) of the Spanish government (No. 70.241.363 - Moñana y Escalada).
Selected results
* 2002:
** 1st, Spanish Championship
** 1st, Spanish Cup
** 1st, Spanish Championship team race (together with Jordi Bes Ginesta)
* 2003:
** 1st, Spanish Championship single
** 1st, Spanish Cup
** 1st, Spanish Championship team race (together with Jordi Bes Ginesta)
** 6th,
European Championship relay race (together with
Javier Martín de Villa, Germán Cerezo Alonso and Fernando Navarro Aznar)
** 7th, European Championship team race (together with Jordi Bes Ginesta)
** 7th, European Championship
vertical race
A Vertical Race is a special kind of ski mountaineering without the typical downhill skiing after ascending. At the mountain running and climbing passages the runners have to carry their skis in their backpacks. Vertical Races for women and men are ...
** 8th, European Championship single race
* 2004:
** 1st, Spanish Championship single
** 4th,
World Championship
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relay race (together with
Agustí Roc Amador, Javier Martín de Villa and Dani León Roca)
** 7th, World Championship vertical race
* 2005:
** 1st, Spanish Championship single
** 1st, Spanish Cup
** 2nd, Spanish Championship vertical race
** 6th, World Cup race,
Salt Lake City
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** 7th,
European Championship vertical race
** 9th, European Championship single race
** 10th, World Cup team (together with Javier Martín de Villa)
* 2006:
** 1st, Spanish Championship single
** 1st, Spanish Championship team
** 1st, Spanish Cup
** 2nd, Spanish Championship vertical race
** 6th,
World Championship
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relay race (together with Javier Martín de Villa, Federico Galera Díez and Agustí Roc Amador)
* 2007:
** 3rd,
European Championship vertical race
** 4th, European Championship relay race (together with Javier Martín de Villa, Agustí Roc Amador and
Marc Solá Pastoret)
** 10th, European Championship team race (together with Jordi Bes Ginesta)
** 10th, European Championship combination ranking
* 2008:
** 3rd,
World Championship
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relay race (together with Javier Martín de Villa, Marc Solá Pastoret and
Kílian Jornet Burgada
Kílian Jornet (; born 27 October 1987) is a Spanish professional sky runner, trail runner, ski mountaineer and long-distance runner. He is a six-time champion of the long-distance running Skyrunner World Series and has won some of the most pr ...
)
* 2009:
** 2nd,
European Championship relay race (together with Javier Martín de Villa,
Joan Maria Vendrell Martínez and Kílian Jornet Burgada)
** 8th, European Championship combination ranking
** 10th, European Championship team race (together with Jordi Bes Ginesta)
* 2010:
** 4th,
World Championship
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relay race (together with Javier Martín de Villa,
Marc Pinsach Rubirola and Kílian Jornet Burgada)
5. ISMF World Championships - relays men (AD)
www.skimounaineering.org
Patrouille des Glaciers
*2000: 6th ("seniors I" class ranking), together with Federico Galera Díez and Jorge Palacio Sanz
*2008: 9th ("civilian international men" ranking), together with Joan Maria Vendrell Martínez and Danile León Roca
References
External links
Manuel Pérez Brunicardi
at ''skimountaineering.org''
Manuel Pérez Brunicardi
website of the FEDME
The Spanish Federation for Mountain and Climbing Sports ( es, Federación Española de Deportes de Montaña y Escalada, FEDME) located in the ''Floridablanca 84'' in Barcelona, is the Spanish federation of mountain and climbing sports. It was foun ...
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1978 births
Living people
Spanish male ski mountaineers
People from Segovia
Sportspeople from the Province of Segovia