Jon Santacana Maiztegui

Jon Santacana Maiztegui

Jon Santacana at the 2013 IPC World Championships held in La Molina, Spain.
Personal information
Nationality	Spanish
Born	(1980-11-01) 1 November 1980 (age 36) San Sebestian, Guipúzcoa, Spain
Sport
Country	Spain
Sport	Alpine skiing
Event(s)	Downhill Slalom Giant slalom Super combined Super G
Coached by	Jordi 'Carbu' Carbonell
Medal record Men's Alpine skiing Representing the  Spain Paralympic Games 2002 Salt Lake City Giant Slalom, visually impaired 2010 Vancouver Downhill, visually impaired 2014 Sochi Downhill, visually impaired 2010 Vancouver Slalom, visually impaired 2014 Sochi Slalom, visually impaired 2010 Vancouver Giant Slalom, visually impaired 2002 Salt Lake City Downhill, visually impaired 2002 Salt Lake City Super-G, visually impaired IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships 2013 La Molina Downhill, visually impaired 2013 La Molina Giant slalom, visually impaired 2015 Panorama Giant slalom, visually impaired 2015 Panorama Super combined, visually impaired 2015 Panorama Slalom, visually impaired

Jon Santacana Maiztegui (born 1 November 1980) is a Spanish B2 classified visually impaired para-alpine skier. His sighted ski guide is Miguel Galindo Garces. Santacana has competed at the IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships, in the European Cup and the IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup, and Spanish national competitions. He represented Spain at the 2002 Winter Paralympics, 2006 Winter Paralympics and 2010 Winter Paralympics, earning a gold medal and a pair of silver medals at the 2010 Games.

Santacana was born on 1 November 1980 in San Sebestian, Guipúzcoa, in the Basque region of Spain. As of 2012^[update], he lives in Getxo, Vizcaya, Spain and is an INEF student.

Santacana has a vision impairment, which is the result of a genetic problem that manifested itself when he was eight years old.

Santacana is a B2 classified visually impaired skier.Miguel Galindo Garces is his guide.

Santacana earned a gold medal at the Switzerland hosted 2000 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships. In 2005, while skiing at La Molina, Spain, he fell and seriously injured himself and was unable to ski until near the start of the 2006 Winter Paralympics.

Santacana earned a gold medal for the overall 2006/2007 European Cup season. He finished the 2006/2007 IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup season in second place. At the last round of the European Cup in March 2008, an event held in La Molina, he was one of several Spanish skiers competing. He finished the 2007/2008 European Cup season in second place after the five test events. Galindo was his guide for the season. He finished the 2007/2008 World Cup season in third place. At the conclusion of the first World Cup event in the 2008/2009 season, he sat in first place in the World Cup standings. It was his eighth career World Cup event. He earned a gold medal and two silver medals at the 2009 World Championships in South Korea. His first gold came in the Super Combined event. He was one of six skiers and four guides making up the Spanish team at the World Championships.