Mireia Miró Varela Explained

Mireia Miró Varela
Birth Date:	31 July 1988
Birth Place:	Barcelona, Spain

Mireia Miró Varela (born 31 July 1988) is a Spanish ski mountaineer and long-distance runner.

Miró was born in Barcelona. She started ski mountaineering in 2005 and competed first in the Cronoescalada race in Cerler in 2006. In the same year she became a member of the national team (Equipo PNTD Esquí de Montaña) and a "high level athlete" of the high sports council (Spanish; Castilian: Consejo Superior de Deportes) of the Spanish government (No. 47.641.303 - Montaña y Escalada).^[1]

Selected results

Ski mountaineering

• 2007:
  • 1st, European Championship "juniors" class single race
  • 1st, European Championship "juniors" class relay race (together with Kílian Jornet Burgada and Marc Pinsach Rubirola)
  • 1st, Traça Catalana race "juniors" class
• 2009:
  • 2nd, European Championship vertical race
  • 2nd, Valtellina Orobie World Cup race^[2]
  • 4th, European Championship team race (together with Izaskun Zubizarreta Guerendiain)
  • 4th, European Championship relay race (together with Gemma Arró Ribot and Izaskun Zubizarreta Guerendiain)
  • 4th, European Championship combination ranking
  • 5th, European Championship single race
  • 9th (and 2nd in the espoirs ranking), Trophée des Gastlosen (ISMF World Cup), together with Naila Jornet Burgada^[3]
• 2010:
  • 4th, World Championship relay race (together with Gemma Arró Ribot and Cristina Bes Ginesta)^[4]
  • 4th, World Championship vertical race^[5]
  • 4th, World Championship team race (together with Gemma Arró Ribot)^[6]
• 2011:
  • 1st, World Championship single race
  • 1st, World Championship vertical race
  • 3rd, World Championship relay (together with Cristina Bes Ginesta and Gemma Arró Ribot)
  • 3rd, World Championship vertical, combined ranking
  • 6th, World Championship sprint
  • 1st, Tour du Rutor (together with Gloriana Pellissier)^[7]
  • 1st, Mountain Attack^[8]
• 2012:
  • 2nd, European Championship single
  • 2nd, European Championship vertical race
  • 2nd, European Championship team, together with Gemma Arró Ribot
  • 2nd, European Championship relay, together with Marta Riba Carlos and Gemma Arró Ribot
  • 2nd, World Championship vertical, combined ranking
  • 1st, Patrouille de la Maya, together with Laëtitia Roux and Séverine Pont-Combe^[9]

Pierra Menta

See main article: Pierra Menta.

• 2010: 2nd, together with Laëtitia Roux
• 2011: 1st, together with Laëtitia Roux

Trofeo Mezzalama

See main article: Trofeo Mezzalama.

• 2011: 2nd, together with Laëtitia Roux and Nathalie Etzensperger^[10]

Mountain Running / skyrunning

• 2009:
  • 1st, Ben Nevis Race^[11]
  • 2nd, Skyrunner World Series

External links

• Mireia Miró Varela at skimountaineering.org
• Further results
• Personal website

Notes and References

1. http://www.csd.mec.es/csd/competicion/01deporteAltaCompeticion/03DepAltCompet/02DepAlNiv/ultimo-listado-dan-publicado-en-el-boe.pdf Lista „Deportista de Alto Nivel“
2. https://archive.today/20121208214732/http://www.mountains2b.com/76-Ergebnis_Weltcup_der_Skibergsteiger__24_Valtell-,e_90846,r_10737.htm Results - 24th Valtellina Orobie
3. http://www.gastlosen.com/2010/resultats/gast_2010_resultats_ismf.pdf 2010 Trophée des Gastlosen
4. http://www.skimountaineering.org/node/1059?IdEvent=1751 5. ISMF World Championships - relays women and youth (AD)
5. http://www.skimountaineering.org/node/980?IdEvent=552 5. ISMF World Championships - vertical race (AD)
6. http://www.canillo2010.org/material/provisionals/Provisionals_fem_teams.pdf Provisional results women teams
7. http://www.newspower.it/comunicati/TourDuRutor/AlbodoroTourduRutor.rtf Tour du Rutor
8. http://www.mountain-attack.at/html/englisch/resultate_2011.html 2011 Mountain Attack - results
9. http://www.sac-cas.ch/Aktuell.149.0.html?&L=1%C3%83%C6%92%C3%82%E2%80%9A%C3%83%E2%A2%E3%9A%C3%82%C2%841%A47%20%20target%3D&layout=print 04.03.12: Patrouille de la Maya
10. https://web.archive.org/web/20110515155409/http://www.trofeomezzalama.org/classifiche/Trofeo%20Mezzalama/Mezzalama2011-donne.pdf 2011 Trofeo Mezzalama - women results
11. http://www.skyrunning.com/images/results/class_general_09_15_a.xls 2009 Skyrunner World Series ranking, October 29, 2009