Dec 16, 2025
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The Aragonese mountain skiers started the season well in the first two rounds of the 2026 Spanish Cup, held this weekend in the Espot ski resort (Lérida).The member of the Aragonese National Team and 2025 champion, Daniel Izquierdo Alonso, of the Peña Guara Mountain Club, won the bronze medal in the senior category in the vertical test.In the U16 category, Iago Iglesias Delgado, member of GTEMA and member of the Montañeras Adebán Club, proved who is one of the best young people in the discipline, with double silver, in the sprint and vertical.Moreover, between the members of the National Team and other Aragonese participants, they collected another eleven medals in the veteran subcategories.
The main news of this season is that the name of the 2026 Spanish Alpine Ski Cup has been expanded from four to six sports, thus expanding the scope of the sport in its first year as an Olympic discipline.The first two competitions of this weekend were organized by FEDME and Espot Esqui Club Valls d'Éneu, in which more than a hundred athletes took part.Both in terms of the total number of participants and the number of female athletes, the Aragonese delegation was the second largest at the championships, a testament to the excellent grassroots work and growth of Skimo in the community.
On Saturday, the race is held, a small circuit of rapid climbing on skis and legs and slalom descent, in groups of six competitors.On Sunday, there was a direct race, which was climbed repeatedly on skis, a route of 3.6 km and 750 m with high value for the elderly, 1.9 km and 435 m for the youth category.
ARAGON MEDALISTS
In the sprint test, the members of the Aragon Mountain Ski Technique Group (GTEMA), which prepares junior athletes, showed a high level of competition in the different age categories. Beatrice de Asprer (5th in U18) in a closely fought final with Iago Iglesias' silver medal in the U16.Isabel De Asprer (4th in U20) and Mara Sahagun (5th in U20) achieved their results.
In the previous category, the podiums stood in various experienced sub-categories.Among the members of the Aragonese national team, Oscar Díaz Sánchez, from the Suburban Athletico Club, and Luis Rio Naia, from the Exea Mountain Club, reached the first two places in the M55.For their part, Miguel Caballero Ortega and Alberto Miron Encinar were first and second in the M40;and Raul Lopez Lopez, third in the M45;All three are members of the Guardia Civil Mountain Club.
On Sunday there were even more medals in the vertical race, with Daniel Izquierdo taking bronze in the absolute category, less than a minute and a half behind the winner.The Peña Guerra athlete had already started last year winning silver in the same way and ended up winning gold in the 2025 Spanish Cup. He also won three medals in the Spanish Championship;record for which he was named best male athlete of 2025 at the FAM Mountain Dinner.
Among the youth, the second silver for Yago Iglesias ended with the results of other GTEMA members finishing in the top five: Daniel Dominguez Craig was fourth, also U16;Beatriz De Asprer Tena and Eduardo Sola Sola, fifth in women and men U18;and Isabel De Asprer Tena, fifth U20.
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In total, 25 Aragonese athletes with 14 GTEMA members participated in Esport.In addition to those named, the following participated: in the U16 Juan de Asprer;In U18 Inés Egea, Nelia Mondéjar, Ixeya Fuentes, Martín Sánchez, Lucas Merodio and David Vicente;In U20, Javier Aznar;And in the senior category: Lucía Sevillano, Laura Labarta, Astrid García, Noel Burgos, Mario Prades, Daniel Puyuelo, Javier Lampérez, David Luna, Diego Del Amo and Juanma Puerto.
After the first tests of the season, the Spanish Cup continues in Cerler on January 10 and 11 with a new double event organized by the Montañeros de Aragón Barbastro: the sprint of the Grand Prix of your province of Huesca la Magia and the vertical Memorial of Remembrance.
The month of Febuari is the most important decision of your own.Boxi Tañall will accept a three-way from February 6 to 8, with a spanish relay CMPIquoion Championship cMP;
Then the light will pass to Panticosa, with the Travesía Club Montaña Pirineos, which will host the Spanish Vertical Championship (March 28) and the Spanish Individual Championship (March 1), which will also be the sixth and final round of the Spanish Cup.
The season will end again on March 22 in Espot with the Skimo Vall d'Àneu Spanish Team Championship, which will put the finishing touches to the state calendar.
