Kilian Jornet

Kílian Jornet Burgada

Jornet during the 2010 Grand Raid
Personal information
Born	(1987-10-27) 27 October 1987 (age 29) Sabadell, Spain
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	58 kg (128 lb; 9.1 st)
Website	http://www.kilianjornet.cat/
Medal record Ski mountaineering European Championships 2009 vertical race 2012 vertical race 2009 relay 2012 individual World Championships 2010 vertical race 2011 individual 2011 vertical race 2015 vertical race 2010 individual 2008 long distance 2008 relay Mountain running Skyrunner World Series 2007 Sky 2008 Sky 2009 Sky 2012 Sky 2012 Ultra 2013 Sky 2013 Ultra 2014 Sky 2014 Ultra 2014 Vertical Kilometer 2013 Vertical Kilometer

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

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.

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. 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.