Federico Galera Díez is a Spanish

Spain

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 ski mountaineer and mountain runner.

Galera was born in Madrid

Madrid

Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...

. He started ski mounatineering in 1996 and competed first in the same year. His twin brother Carlos

Carlos Galera Díez

Carlos Galera Díez is a Spanish ski mountaineer. Amongst others, he finished ninth in the team event of the 2001 European Championship of Skimountaineering, together with his twin brother Federico...

 is also a ski mountaineer.

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 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
    2006 World Championship of Skimountaineering
    The 2006 World Championship of Ski Mountaineering was the third World Championship of Ski Mountaineering sanctioned by the International Council for Ski Mountaineering Competitions , held in the Italian Province of Cuneo from February 27 to March 4, 2006....
    
     relay race (together with Javier Martín de Villa
    Javier Martín de Villa
    Javier Martín de Villa 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 member of the national team in the same year...
    
    , Manuel Pérez Brunicardi and Agustí Roc Amador

Patrouille des Glaciers

Patrouille des Glaciers

The Patrouille des Glaciers is a ski mountaineering race organized every two years by the Swiss Army, in which military and civilian teams compete...

 

• 2000: 6th ("seniors I" class ranking), together with Manuel Pérez Brunicardi
  Manuel Pérez Brunicardi
  Manuel "Manu" Pérez Brunicardi 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 member of the national team. He won Spanish Championships in a row from 2002 to 2006...
  
   and Jorge Palacio Sanz
• 2010: 9th ("seniors II" class ranking), together with Carlos Galera Díez and Francisco Javier Rodriguez Bodas

External links

• Federico Galera at skimountaineering.org