Beijing 2022 has started this Friday with a opening ceremony which took place at 1:00 p.m. (Basque time). Imanol Rojo (cross-country skiing), Adur Etxezarreta and Manex Salsamendi (alpine skiing) will enter the competition on Sunday the 6th, while Lucas Eguibar (snowboard) will not make his debut until Thursday the 10th.
LUCAS EGUIBAR
Sport: Snowboarding
Donostia, 02-09-1994
The current world champion He started skiing at the age of 2 with his parents, and at the age of 5 he began to compete in alpine skiing. While he was preparing, he started to like snowboarding and decided to learn it when he was 7 years old, having his mother as a teacher. He continued to compete in skiing until he was 15 years old, at which time he entered the Spanish snowboard championships and obtained very good results.
In 2012 he won the European circuit and in 2013 he made his first podium in the World Cup, he was 3rd in the Arosa station, Switzerland, and Junior World Champion in Turkey.
He obtained the diploma for his 7th place, in Sochi, in his first Olympic Games. In 2015 he was champion of the Snowboardcross World Cup. Two years later, at the 2017 Sierra Nevada World Championship, he won two silver medals in the snowboardcross category; one in individual competition and another for teams.
In 2020, although his season was reduced by the coronavirus pandemic, Lucas Eguibar won the Sierra Nevada World Cup. However, the best was yet to come. Lucas achieved glory in February 2021 at the Idre Fjäll World Cup (Sweden) by winning a heart-stopping final decided with the photo-finish.
Eguibar is one of the favorites to get on the podium at the Beijing 2022 Games.
Calendar
Feb. 10: Snowboardcross, qualifying and final.
RED IMANOL
Toulouse, 11-30-1990
Sport: Cross-country skiing
At the age of five he started skiing with his older brother, Ioseba, who is now his technician, and so far he hasn’t gotten off his skis. At the age of 11 he began to compete with the Uzturre Elkartea Alpine team and the results achieved up to the age of 15 allowed him to enter the national cross-country ski team in 2005.
He has participated in different international competitions, European Cup, World Cup, World Cup and the most important, the 2014 Olympics in Sochi (Russia) and the Pyeongchang Olympics in 2018. In Russia he participated in the skiathlon events (50th place), 1.4 km sprint (position 60), 15 kilometers classic (position 50) and mass start 50 kilometers (position 33).
In Korea he competed in skiathlon (49th place), 15km freestyle (62nd place), 50km mass start (35th place), and team sprint (19th place).
Calendar
February 6th: Skiathlon 15km + 15km
February 11th: 15km classic style
February 19th: 50km freestyle mass start
ADUR ETXEZARRETA
Sport: Alpine skiing
Donostia, 01-27-1996
Although he was born in San Sebastián, he considers himself to be from the Navarran town of Areso, where he has lived most of his life.
Fast trial specialist active since January 2012, Etxezarreta he debuted in the European Cup on December 21, 2017. It comes from signing a historic start to the year. On January 14, 2022, he got his first podium in the European Cup (2nd) downhill in Tarvisio, completing a time of 1:47.71 to cover 3300 meters. He is the first at the state level to obtain a medal in this modality.
These will be his first games Olympics.
Calendar
February 6th: Decline
February 8th: super giant
MANEX SALSAMENDI
Rio Branco (Brazil), 07-24-2002
Sport: Cross-country skiing
Manex Salsamendi Silva was born in the north of Brazil and arrived in Isaba when he was eight years old. There he met and began to practice cross-country skiing with his father, Aitor Salsamendi.
Trained in the discipline of the Club Pirineos de Roncal as a cross-country skier, at the age of 19 he faces the first Olympic event of his career sporty.
Calendar
February 6th: Skiathlon 15km +15km
February 8th: Sprint freestyle, qualifying and finals
February 11th: 15km classic style
February 19th: 50km freestyle mass start
Source: Eitb
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