Fundación Occident and Irati IdiakezSnowboarding athlete with a disability
Irati Idiakez, born in Getaria, is a snowboard athlete with a disability. She has been competing nationally and internationally since 2018, and Fundación Occident has supported her in her sports career, providing high-level training programmes to achieve her sporting goals.
Irati is a member of the Spanish Royal Federation of Winter Sports (FEDI), and World Champion 2022/2023 in Banked Slalom and runner-up in boardercross. She is also the 2024/2025 crystal globe champion at Banked Slalom.
She is optimistic, resilient, humble, persistent, and disciplined, qualities that give her a unique personality to keep progressing and achieve the goals she sets.
