Kílian Jornet Burgada

Kílian Jornet Burgada

Jornet during the 2010 Grand Raid
Personal information
Born (1987-10-27) 27 October 1987
Sabadell, Spain
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Weight 58 kg (128 lb; 9.1 st)[2]
Website http://www.kilianjornet.cat/

Kílian Jornet Burgada (Catalan pronunciation: ['kjliən ʒur'nɛt]; born 27 October 1987 in Sabadell, Spain) is a professional ski mountaineer and long-distance runner.[3][4][5]

He is a six-time champion of the long-distance running Skyrunner World Series and has won some of the most prestigious ultramarathons, including the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc, Grand Raid, the Western States Endurance Run and the Hardrock Hundred Mile Endurance Run.

Jornet holds the fastest known time for the ascent and descent of Matterhorn, Mont Blanc, Denali and Everest.

Biography

Cap de Rec mountain hut where Jornet grew up.

Jornet was born in Sabadell, Catalonia, Spain near Barcelona. He grew up in Refugi de Cap de Rec, a mountain hut at 2000 meters in the Pyrenees at the cross-country Lles ski resort in Lles de Cerdanya, where his father was a hut keeper and mountain guide.[3] At the age of three he climbed Tuc de Molières, a three-thousander in the Pyrenees. By the age of five he climbed Aneto 3,404 m (11,168 ft), the highest mountain in the Pyrenees, and a year later he climbed his first four-thousander, the Breithorn (4,164 m (13,661 ft)) in Switzerland.[6]

He started ski mountaineering in 1999, and competed for the first time at the La Molina race of the Spanish Cup in 2000. In 2003, he became a junior member of the Spanish national ski mountaineering team, and has raced as a senior since 2007. Jornet studied at the University of Perpignan Via Domitia.[7]

Jornet has been recognised as an elite athlete since 2004[8] by the Catalan and Spanish sports councils (Consell Català de l’Esport and Consejo Superior de Deportes).[9] For his achievements in the "junior" class ski mountaineering team, he won the Catalan sports award (Premi d’honor d’esport català) in 2004, 2005 and 2006.

In 2005 he set a course record of 2:30:57 for the race to the 4,015-metre (13,173 ft) summit of the Dôme de Neige des Écrins.[10] He was World Champion in the Buff SkyRunner World Series in 2007,[8] 2008 and 2009[11] becoming the youngest athlete to win this honour.[8]

Personal life

His sister Naila Jornet Burgada and his girlfriend Emelie Forsberg from Sweden also compete in ski mountaineering and skyrunning events.[12]

On 7 September 2013 Jornet and Forsberg had to be rescued by the "Peloton de Gendarmerie de haute montagne" (PGHM, alpine rescue squad) at 3,800 meters of altitude (ésperon Frendo) while attempting to climb the north face of the Aiguille du Midi in the Mont Blanc massif, wearing trail running shoes with crampons[13] and a body stocking.

"Summits of My Life" Project

"Summits of My Life" is Kilian Jornet's personal project, in which he is trying to set ascent and descent records for some of the most important mountains on the planet, and is planned to culminate with the record attempt on Mount Everest.[14] This project includes:

Selected results

Mountain Running / skyrunning

Climbing

Duathlon

Ski mountaineering

Pierra Menta

Patrouille des Glaciers

Trofeo Mezzalama

Filmography

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ Pro review. Retrieved on 2011-12-03 from http://www.salomoneyewear.com/en/avis-pro
  2. ↑ Kilian Jornet
  3. 1 2 Solomon, Christopher (March 20, 2013). "Becoming the All-Terrain Human". The New York Times. Retrieved December 30, 2014.
  4. ↑ Giles Whittell Kilian Jornet, the world’s best ultra-runner The Times, August 3, 2014. (subscription required)
  5. ↑ kilian-jornet-rocks-hard-at-the-hardrock-100 redbull.com
  6. ↑ Dumons, Olivier (September 20, 2013). "Le sommet de sa vie". Le Monde. Retrieved December 30, 2014.
  7. ↑ Jornet's Facebook profile
  8. 1 2 3 "Kilian Jornet, campeón del mundo" (in Spanish). Runner's World (Spanish edition). 2007-09-23. Retrieved 2009-03-27.
  9. ↑ "Lista "Deportista de Alto Nivel"" (pdf) (in Spanish). Consejo Superior de Deportes. 2007-08-17. Retrieved 2009-03-27.
  10. ↑ "Rècord de Kilian Jornet al Dome de Neige des Ecrins (4.015 m.)" (in Catalan). FEEC.org. 2005-09-08. Retrieved 2009-03-22.
  11. ↑ 2009 Skyrunner World Series ranking, skyrunning.com, October 29, 2009
  12. ↑ What Makes Jornet Burgada Run? athleticsandsports.com
  13. ↑ Chris Parker (11 September 2013). "Kilian Jornet and Emelie Forsberg Rescued from Frendo Spur". Rock and Ice climbing magazine. Big Stone Publishing.
  14. ↑ "Summits of My Life"
  15. ↑ Kilian Jornet Burgada, Innominata Ridge and Mont Blanc in 6 hours 17 minutes planetmountain.com
  16. ↑ Robin Deering World champion ski mountaineer dies in Mont Blanc record attempt.Stéphane Brosse, triple World champion ski mountaineer dies in Summits of My Life project. 18th June 2012, chamonet.com
  17. ↑ Stéphane Brosse emporté (in French), ledauphine.com SkiChrono, June 17, 2012.
  18. ↑ Skibergsteiger Stéphane Brosse stirbt im Wallis (in German), blick.ch, June 17, 2012.
  19. ↑ Dougald MacDonald Extraordinary Speed Record on Mont Blanc climbing.com, July 21, 2013
  20. ↑ Mont-Blanc Speed Record: Ascent and Descent On Foot chamonix.net
  21. ↑ Kilian Jornet Shatters Matterhorn Speed Record climbing.com
  22. ↑ MacDonald, Douglas (2013-08-21). "Kilian Jornet Shatters Matterhorn Speed Record". Climbing Magazine. Retrieved 2013-08-23.
  23. ↑ Kilian Jornet Sets Mc Kingley Record snowbrains.com Archived 2014-12-24 at the Wayback Machine.
  24. ↑ Weinberger, Hannah (2014-06-13). "Kilian Jornet Sets Denali Speed Record". Outside. Retrieved 2014-06-15.
  25. ↑ karl egloff aconcagu, the man breaking kilian jornetsrecords trailrunnermag.com Archived 2015-02-27 at the Wayback Machine.
  26. ↑ Kilian Jornet - Mountain racer redbulletin.com Archived 2014-12-29 at the Wayback Machine.
  27. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-12-30. Retrieved 2014-12-29. elbrusrace.com
  28. ↑ Kilian Jornet "No tengo claro si volveré al Elbrus" desnivel.com/, 25 September 2013
  29. ↑ Bailey, Mark (28 June 2016). "Kilian Jornet: how to run further than you've ever run before". telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 30 June 2016.
  30. ↑ "Kilian Jornet aplaza el sueño de conquistar el Everest". Desnivel (in Spanish). Ediciones Desnivel SL. 15 September 2016.
  31. ↑ Kilian Jornet, Campeón del Mundo (Spanish), El Mundo Deportivo, 25. September 2007.
  32. ↑ Marc Pinsach and Neus Parcerisas won the Salomon Compex Xm Duatlon Series, October 20, 2007.
  33. ↑ Kilian Jornet-Burgada wins World Cup in Massongex, Dynafit, January 30, 2008.
  34. ↑ 5. ISMF World Championships - vertical race (AD), skimountaineering.org
  35. ↑ 5. ISMF World Championships - individual (AD), www.skimountaineering.org
  36. ↑ ISMF World championship combined ranking - men, ISMF.
  37. ↑ 5. ISMF World Championships - relays men (AD) Archived 2010-03-10 at the Wayback Machine., www.skimounaineering.org
  38. ↑ Provisional results men teams Archived 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine., www.canillo2010.org
  39. ↑ 2010 Trophée des Gastlosen Archived 2010-02-15 at the Wayback Machine.
  40. ↑ Mountain Attack - results 2011
  41. ↑ Mountain Attack - results 2012
  42. ↑ 04.03.12: Patrouille de la Maya (in German), SAC - CAS.
  43. ↑ Pierra Menta 2012
  44. ↑ 2010 Patrouille des Glaciers Archived 2010-06-02 at the Wayback Machine.
  45. ↑ 2011 Trofeo Mezzalama - men results
  46. ↑ 2013 Trofeo Mezzalama - men results
  47. ↑ Fernández, Isaac (7 December 2012). "Kilian Jornet: "¿Qué buscamos? ¿Quizás vivir?"" (in Spanish). Ediciones Desnivel SL.
  48. ↑ Hicks, Meghan (March 27, 2014). ""Déjame Vivir" Film Review". iRunFar, LLC.
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