Nationality: SpanishDate of birth: January 4, 1980Place of birth: Igualada 1997: Runner-up Spanish Junior Motocross Championship 12th Spanish 125cc Senior Championship Participation in the 6 Days of Italy with the Spanish Enduro Team1998: Participation in the 6 Days of Australia with the Spanish Enduro Team1999: 10th Spanish Motocross Open Championship 6th Spanish 125cc Motocross Open Championship.2000: 6th Spanish Motocross Open Championship 3rd Catalan Motocross Open Championship Bronze medal 6 Days of Granada with the Spanish Enduro Team2001: 7th Spanish Motocross Open Championship Catalan Motocross Open Championship Bronze medal 6 Days of France with the Spanish Enduro Team2002: Runner-up Catalan Motocross Open Championship Participation in the 6 Days of the Czech Republic with the Spanish Enduro Team2003: Catalan Motocross Open Champion 8th Spanish Motocross Open Championship Participation in the 6 Days of Brazil with the Spanish Enduro Team 2004: 6th Spanish Motocross Open Championship Participation in the Motocross des Nations in the Netherlands2005: 4th Spanish Motocross Open Championship2006: Primera participación Lisboa Dakar. Retirado penúltimo día cuando era 13º 5º Campeonato del Mundo de Raids Jordi Viladoms, was born 26 years ago in Igualada. He made his first steps in the world of the two-wheels in BMX. He showed a very good style on the bicycle from the early stages. After becoming Spanish Champion and taking part in the World Championship, he began to look for new exciting challenges. The lack of races, of participation and of help to compete abroad took him to park the bike and to try his luck in motocross, a sport that was not new to him. He started riding bikes at the same time as he learned to ride on a bicycle, at the young age of 4, when he would ride together with his father on an Italjet 50. At the age of twelve, Jordi Viladoms began taking part in Motocross races in the 80 cc class, and later in the 125cc and 250cc classes where he managed to become runner-up in the Spanish Junior Championship at the age of 18. Always responsible and conscious about his duties, he went to the University and thus the hours spent on the bike became less and less. He lost a bit of contact with competition, but both his parents and himself knew that not many had the chance to make a living out of motocross, and that there was the need to carve out a future for oneself. His stake was high and one year ago he got a degree in industrial engineering. From that moment on he decided to fully devote to the motorbike. During the 2004 season he made a very important qualitative jump. He finished the Spanish Motocross Championship in sixth position, including three consecutive podium finishes in the second part of the season and several surgical interventions due to a shoulder injury. He was chosen to participate in the Motocross des Nations, among the three riders representing Spain, which was a reward for his great progression. He faced his first season as a professional rider in 2005. With the support of sponsors such as Movistar and Repsol, and with Javier García Vico as team-mate, Jordi Viladoms faced the Spanish Motocross Championship with renewed excitement and ready to learn. It was a great chance and there were no excuses. Therefore, Jordi dedicated himself fully to motocross, something he has always been fighting for and he made it in the best team and with the best Spanish rider as his team-mate. Despite training harder than anyone else to be ready for the challenge, he injured his neck one week before the first race of the Championship after a crash in Crevillente, and was largely conditioned for the rest of the season. However, Viladoms competed against much more expert and prestigious riders in every race. In the fifth race of the season, staged in Guadarrama, he took his best partial result so far, third in the first leg. His perseverance and sacrifice were rewarded and in the following race he managed to get on the podium for the first time, after two third places in San Esteban Gormaz. In the second half of the season, and still suffering from the neck injury, he finished all legs among the top five. The young Spanish motocross promise was finally fourth in the overall standings. Tough and a fighter, Jordi Viladoms faced a new challenge in 2006: his first participation in the Dakar. A challenge filled with new things for this young Spaniard, who faced them with excitement and responsibility. The team, the bike, the discipline, the rivals, the race… Everything was new, but it is was also a project that adapted perfectly well to somebody with an improving and sacrificing spirit such as Jordi Viladoms. And Jordi completed a superb performance in the 2006 Dakar taking several top ten finishes in the different stages and being thirteenth when crossing the Senegal border, really close to taking a top ten finish in his first participation. However Viladoms also had his first meeting with the sour side of the raid. He had a heavy crash – almost the only crash he had along the more than 10,000 km races – that forced him to retire. There were only 100 km left to the finish and Viladoms was out, but his signature remained there, with a masterly performance and the will to come back to Africa. During the 2006 season, Viladoms has participated together with Marc Coma in some of the races of the Raid World Championship, achieving a brilliant third position in the recently staged Duba Rally. Jordi was finally fifth overall in the championship. This industrial engineer, who has always had very clear ideas and his feet on the ground, will celebrate his twenty-seventh birthday in Lisbon, looking forward to Africa, a territory he will be fighting more than ever to conquer some day. With the main aim of continuing with the learning process and helping, if necessary, Viladoms will take part in the Dakar with one of the best teams, the Repsol KTM Team.
