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 equipment ...

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; its courses are more cl ...

. Galera was born in

Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...

. 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 A European Championship is the top level international sports competition between European athletes or sports teams representing their respective countries or professional sports clubs. In the plural, the European Championships also refers t ...

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

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, Manuel Pérez Brunicardi and Agustí Roc Amador

Patrouille des Glaciers

* 2000: 6th ("seniors I" class ranking), together with

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and Jorge Palacio Sanz * 2010: 9th ("seniors II" class ranking), together with Carlos Galera Díez and Francisco Javier Rodriguez Bodas''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 Spanish twins