Oscar Roig Iglesies is a Catalunyan ski mountaineer.

Roig was born in Barcelona

Barcelona

Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

. He started ski mountaineering in 2001. His first competition was the 2002 Certescan race. He has been a member of the Spanish national ski mountaineering team since 2007 and lives in Anyós

Anyós

Anyós is a village in Andorra, located in the parish of La Massana and 1 km from the town of La Massana.-Traditions:A fiesta is held every 10 July, and by tradition the priest blesses a carriage in the village square opposite the medieval Church of St Christopher who is the patron saint of...

, Andorra

Andorra

Andorra , officially the Principality of Andorra , also called the Principality of the Valleys of Andorra, , is a small landlocked country in southwestern Europe, located in the eastern Pyrenees mountains and bordered by Spain and France. It is the sixth smallest nation in Europe having an area of...

. He was placed seventh in the vertical race

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...

 event of the 2007 European Championship.

External links

• Oscar Roig Iglesies at skimountaineering.org