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Editor | Sports center
Barcelona
In total, the Generalitat has granted the Creu de Sant Jordi 2024 to 20 personalities and 10 entities that “due to their merits, have provided outstanding services to Catalonia in the defense of their identity or in the civic and cultural sphere.”
In addition to the Barça footballer Aitana Bonmatíanother athlete has received the highest distinction of Catalonia, Kilian Jornet“for his brilliant sporting career linked to the world of mountains and his commitment to environmental conservation”, also conveyed through the Kilian Jornet Foundation.
In Jornet’s name, his mother received the Creu de Sant Jordi, Núria Burgadafrom the hands of the president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa. “Thank you for your works, thank you for your lives. We are proud of all of you,” Illa said in his speech.
“Thank you for your works, thank you for your lives. We are proud of all of you”
Salvador IllaPresident of the Generalitat of Catalonia
Kilian Jornet, 37 years old, is the best mountain runner in history, a multidisciplinary athlete (mountain skiing, mountaineering) whose dimension goes far beyond his extensive sports record, especially with the achievement of impressive personal challenges that have It also helped popularize mountain sports.
One of his last feats serves to frame the unique character of the Catalan athlete, who shattered all imaginable mountaineering records this year by crowning the 82 ‘four thousand’ of the Alps In just 19 days, a true atrocity summarized in 1,207 kilometers traveled, 267 hours of activity and 75,344 meters of positive slope.
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