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Birth name | Ramón Homs Miralpeix |
Nationality | Spanish |
Born | Vic, Barcelona, Spain | 5 March 1974
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Country | ![]() |
Sport | Para-alpine skiing |
Event(s) | Downhill Slalom Giant slalom Super combined Super G |
Club | Club Excursionista Taradell |
Ramón Homs Miralpeix [1] (born 5 March 1974) is a Spanish para-alpine LW6/8 classified standing skier. He represented Spain at the 2006 Winter Paralympics where he did not earn a medal. He has also competed at the Spanish national championships, the European Cup and the IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup.
Homs was born on 5 March 1974 in Vic, Barcelona, [1] with Barcelona being his hometown. [2] He has a physical disability, [3] [4] a left missing arm that he lost in a motorcycle accident. It took him to years to recover physically and mentally from the accident. [2]
Homs is a para-alpine LW6/8 classified standing skier, [1] who has an arm amputation and competes in the standing group. [5] He is a member of Club Excursionista Taradell. [6] He has represented the Federación Catalana Minusvalids Fisics (FCMF) in at least one international skiing event. [7]
Homs took up para-alpine skiing two years after his arm was amputated. [2] He competed at a European Cup event in La Molina in early 2006. The event was used as the basis for selecting the Spanish Paralympic team for the 2006 Games. [8] He represented Spain at the 2006 Winter Paralympics. He was disqualified from the slalom event after missing a gate on his first run down the hill. He did not medal in any of his other races. [9] The Games were his first. [2] In 2007, he competed at the Spanish national championships, where he represented the Catalan region of Spain. [10] He won several gold medals at the competition. [11] In February 2007, he competed at a World Cup event in La Molina, Spain. [4] At the 2007 Paralympic Winter World Cup, he finished seventeenth in the overall standings. [12] At the March 2008 Italian National Championships, he finished third in the Super G, fifth in the giant slalom and was disqualified from the slalom. [7] [13] At the last round of the European Cup in March 2008, an event held in La Molina, Spain, he was one of several non-vision impaired Spanish skiers competing at the event. [14] At the first IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup event in the 2008/2009 ski season, he failed to finish one of his races. [15] In January 2009, he participated in a World Cup event in La Molina. He finished seventeenth in the slalom event. [5] At the February 2009 Paralympic World Cup I event, he finished seventeenth overall. [16] In March 2009, he competed at a European Cup event. He finished twelfth overall with 264 points. [3] In April 2009, he competed at the Spanish national championships, where he finished first in the men's standing category. [17] At the January 2010 European Cup, he finished ninth in the Super Combined event. [18]
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