Mountain athlete Kilian Jornet and his spouse, Emelie Forsberg, who are living in western Norway, have introduced they’re anticipating their 3rd kid. The couple have two daughters, ages 5 and 3.
Jornet’s most up-to-date undertaking was once a quickest recognized time (FKT) he referred to as “Alpine Connections,” which concerned summitting 82 4,000-metre Alpine peaks in simplest 19 days, and travelling between peaks by way of operating and biking. (The former report of 62 days was once set in 2015 by way of Swiss alpinist Ueli Steck, who used a mix of biking and paragliding.) Previous this summer time, he gained the famed Sierre-Zinal path race in Spain–for the tenth time. (The race, which is a part of the Golden Path Global Sequence and the Global Mountain Working Affiliation Global Cup, covers 31 km, with 2,200 metres of ascent, together with summitting 5 4,000m peaks.) In Might, he claimed his eleventh win at Zegama-Aizkorri, a in a similar way technical and iconic path marathon, additionally in Jornet’s local Spain.
Forsberg, who’s at the start from Sweden, is a extremely achieved elite path and mountain athlete in her personal proper. Forsberg competed at this yr’s MaXi Race Ecu Off-Highway Championship in France, the place she completed twenty first within the elite ladies’s up & down race. (She additionally completed 2d on the Path Cap de Creus race in Spain.)
Jornet introduced his NNormal trail-running shoe emblem in 2022. He’s a four-time winner (and previous route report holder) of UTMB 176K in Chamonix, France, maximum just lately in 2022.