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Ander MIRAMBELL

Spain

Gender: Male
Nationality: Spain

Birthday: 17 February 1983
Age: 31

Height: 1.82 m (6' 0'')
Weight: 80 kg / 176 lbs

Place of Birth: Spain, BARCELONA
Place of Residence: -

Olympic Scholarship participant

Skeleton

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Athlete competitions and results

14 February, 16:30 Men's Heat 1
Ander MIRAMBELL
Time: 58.58 (+2.63)
Rank: 26

14 February, 18:00 Men's Heat 2
Ander MIRAMBELL
Time: 1:57.30 (+5.31)
Rank: 26

15 February, 18:45 Men's Heat 3
Ander MIRAMBELL
Time: 2:56.10 (+7.83)
Rank: 26

Additional Information

Highlights

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
Olympic Winter Games
24	Men	2010	Vancouver, BC, CAN	2:43.62
World Championships
22	Men	2013	St. Moritz, SUI	DNQ
25	Men	2012	Lake Placid, NY, USA	DNQ
26	Men	2011	Konigssee, GER	DNQ

World Cup Rankings overview - displays all rankings from 2010/11, top three for earlier seasons

Season	Men
2013/2014	23
2012/2013	23
2011/2012	23
2010/2011	19

Best performance per season in World Cup events from 2010/2011

Season	Men	Team
2013/2014	1 x 16th	-
2012/2013	1 x 17th	1 x DNS
2011/2012	1 x 17th	-
2010/2011	1 x 14th	-

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
Ten best World Cup performances in current season
16	Men	2013/2014	St. Moritz, SUI	2:21.71
17	Men	2013/2014	St. Moritz, SUI	2:18.86
23	Men	2013/2014	Igls, AUT	DNQ
23	Men	2013/2014	Park City, UT, USA	DNQ
25	Men	2013/2014	Lake Placid, NY, USA	DNQ
25	Men	2013/2014	Calgary, AB, CAN	DNQ
26	Men	2013/2014	Konigssee, GER	DNQ
27	Men	2013/2014	Winterberg, GER	DNQ

Legend
DNS-Did not start, DNQ-Did not qualify for final run, DSQ-Disqualified

Nickname: The Frozen Cat (uic.es, 25 Jan 2013)
Occupation: Athlete
Languages Spoken: English, Spanish
Other Sports: He represented Spain in 400m sprint events at junior level. He also played for the junior team of RCD Espanyol, a professional football club based in Barcelona. (andermirambell.com, 16 Nov 2013)
Injuries: He broke ribs in 2009 and was out for five weeks. (Athlete, 29 Jan 2010)

In December 2007 he sustained a triple fracture of his collarbone after crashing in training. He underwent emergency surgery in Konigssee, Germany. (atletismecalella.cat, 04 Dec 2007)

In November 2005 he broke a finger on his left hand in three places after a sliding accident. He required surgery and was unable to compete for a month. (Athlete, 29 Jan 2010)

Hobbies: Football, golf, basketball, beach volleyball. (andermirambell.com, 16 Nov 2013)
Education: Sports Science - Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, ESP
Coach: Martin Rettl [personal], AUT; Bernat Busca [national] (fibt.com, 25 Jan 2014; rtve.es, 13 Jan 2014)
Debut: 2005 for Spain (Athlete, 29 Jan 2010)
Previous Olympics: Vancouver 2010

Additional Information

Start of sporting career
He took up luge in 2005 at age 22 in Innsbruck, Austria. (fibt.com, 25 Jan 2014; Athlete, 29 Jan 2010)

Reason for taking up this sport
He had a background in athletics and thought his best chance of competing at the Olympic Games was in bobsleigh or skeleton. Bobsleigh can be more expensive, so he opted for skeleton. (rcdespanyol.com, 12 Jan 2009)

Sporting philosophy / motto
"If you fall, you must get back up and keep going." (andermirambell.com, 16 Nov 2013)

Awards
In July 2009 he received a Plaque of Merit from the Catalan Federation of Sports in Spain. (inforadiocalella.blogspot.com, 09 Jul 2009)

General
TRAINING RIVALRIES
A lack of funding for skeleton in Spain has meant he has trained with the British and Swiss teams in the past. However, this has proved a difficult arrangement on the occasions Mirambell has finished ahead of his training partners at international events. "It can be complicated. I got to train with the Swiss and within two weeks I was ahead of them. They could not believe they were below Spain. The British team had a budget of a million and a half Euros. I arrived and beat them in the next races. Automatically problems arose." (vavel.com, 07 Aug 2013)

NATIONAL FIRSTS
He became the first Spaniard to compete in skeleton at an Olympic Winter Games when he represented his country at the 2010 Games in Vancouver. He was also the first Spaniard to finish on the podium at an international skeleton event, achieving the feat at the 2008 Grand Prix in Innsbruck, Austria. (vavel.com, 07 Aug 2013; fedhielo.com, 04 Feb 2008)

STARTING FROM SCRATCH
The first time he raced in 2005 in Austria, he used a handmade sled and his shoes were made with some nails and a cheese grater. (vavel.com, 07 Aug 2013; 20minutos.es, 14 Sep 2009)

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