Summer Olympics
- August 5–10: 2024 Summer Olympics in
Paris
This article lists the main competition climbing events and their results for 2024. This includes the World Cup, World Championships, International Climbing Series, and Continental Championships. [1]
Paris 
Guiyang 
Koper Keqiao [2] 
Tomoa Narasaki (m) / Janja Garnbret (w) Wujiang Wu Peng (m) / 
Aleksandra Miroslaw (w)
Toby Roberts (m) / Janja Garnbret (w)
Salt Lake City Anraku Sorato (m) / Natalia Grossman (w) Sam Watson (m) / Emma Hunt (w)
Innsbruck Sohta Amagasa (m) / Janja Garnbret (w) Jakob Schubert (m) / Janja Garnbret (w) Chamonix Colin Duffy (m) / Ai Mori (w) Sam Watson (m) / Shaoqin Zhang (w) Briançon Zento Murashita (m) / Mei Kotake (w)
Ludovico Fossali (m) / Lijuan Deng (w) Koper Toby Roberts (m) / Janja Garnbret (w)
Prague 
Lee Dohyun (m) / Natalia Grossman (w) Seoul Lee Dohyun (m) / Anastasia Sanders (w) Sorato Anraku (m) / Jessica Pilz (w) Xinshang Wang (m) / Yafei Zhou (w)
Villars Troyes Tai'an 
Jamshedpur 
Santiago Lublin [3] [4] Gian Luca Zodda (m) / 
Franziska Ritter (w) Klagenfurt [5] [6] Leo Favot (m) / Jennifer Eucharia Buckley (w) Mezzolombardo Augsburg Innsbruck Bologna Genova Lublin [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] Marco Rontini (m) / Daria Marciniak (w) Aodhan Umlauf (m) / 
Polina Khalkevych (w) Davide Radaelli (m) / Alice Marcelli (w) Curno [13] 
Yonatan Katz (m) / Lily Abriat (w) Lucas Trandafir (m) / Lucy Garlick (w) Or Mark (m) / Rafael Kazbekova (w)
Soure Graz Mezzolombardo Dornbirn 
Žilina Ostermundigen 
Ibarra 
Mar del Plata 
Curitiba Pfungstadt [14] [15] [16] Arthur le Bris (m) / Natalia Grossman (w)
Delft [17] Simon Tse (m) / Lynn Robichon (w) Twan Heuff (m) / 
Clara Stricker-Petersen (w)
Jitse Remes (m) / Kseniia Zakharova (w)
Madrid 
Neom Yoshiyuki Ogata (m) / Mao Nakamura (w) Shion Omata (m) / Ai Mori (w) Jun Yasukawa (m) / Ai Takeuchi (w)
Competition climbing is a form of regulated rock climbing competition held indoors on purpose-built artificial climbing walls. The three competition climbing disciplines are lead climbing, bouldering, and speed climbing. The result of multiple disciplines can be used in a "combined" format to determine an all-round winner. Competition climbing is sometimes called "sport climbing", which is the name given to pre-bolted lead climbing.
The IFSC Climbing World Cup is a series of competition climbing events held during the year at various locations around the world, organized by the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC). At each event, the athletes compete in three disciplines: lead, bouldering, and speed. The number of events varies from year to year, and the winners for each discipline are decided by the points accumulated in the year.
Janja Garnbret is a Slovenian professional rock climber who specializes in sport climbing and competition climbing. She has won multiple competition lead climbing and competition bouldering events, two Olympic gold medals, and is widely regarded as the greatest competition climber of all time. In 2021, Garnbret became the first-ever female Olympic gold medalist in climbing, and successfully defended her title in 2024. With two gold medals, she is the most successful Slovenian athlete at the Summer Olympics. She is also the world's first-ever female climber to onsight an 8c (5.14b) graded sport climbing route.
Margo Hayes is an American professional rock climber from Boulder, Colorado. In 2016, she won both the competition bouldering and the competition lead climbing events at the IFSC Climbing World Youth Championships in Guangzhou (China). In 2017, she became the first woman in history to climb a 9a+ (5.15a) graded route, and in 2019, became the first woman to complete the "9a+ Trilogy".
Jessica Pilz is an Austrian professional rock climber who specializes in competition climbing. She won the bronze medal in the combined bouldering and lead climbing event at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
The 2018 IFSC Climbing World Championships, the 15th edition, were held in Innsbruck, Austria from 6 to 16 September 2018. The championships consisted of lead, speed, bouldering, paraclimbing, and combined events.
The 2017 IFSC Climbing World Cup was held in 15 locations. Bouldering competitions were held in 7 locations, lead in 8 locations, and speed in 7 locations. The season began on 7 April in Meiringen, Switzerland and concluded on 12 November in Kranj, Slovenia.
The 2018 IFSC Climbing World Cup was held in 14 locations. There were 22 events: 7 bouldering, 7 lead, and 8 speed events. The season began on 13 April in Meiringen, Switzerland, and concluded on 28 October in Xiamen, China.
The 2016 IFSC Climbing World Cup was held in 16 locations. Bouldering, lead and speed competitions were held in 7 locations. The season began on 15 April in Meiringen, Switzerland and concluded on 27 November in Kranj, Slovenia.
The 2019 season of the IFSC Climbing World Cup was the 21st season of the competition. Bouldering competitions were held at six stops of the IFSC Climbing World Cup. The bouldering season began on April 5 at the World Cup in Meiringen, and concluded on June 8 with the World Cup in Vail. At each stop a qualifying was held on the first day of the competition, and the semi-final and final rounds were conducted on the second day of the competition. The winners were awarded trophies, and the best three finishers received medals. At the end of the season an overall ranking was determined based upon points, which athletes were awarded for finishing in the top 30 of each individual event.
The 2019 IFSC Climbing World Cup was held in 12 locations. Bouldering, lead and speed competitions were each held in 6 locations. The season began on 5 April in Meiringen, Switzerland with the first bouldering competition in the season, and concluded on 27 October in Inzai, Japan, with the last lead climbing competition in the season.
This is a ranking of total career IFSC victories obtained in the annual IFSC Climbing World Cup, and the biennial IFSC Climbing World Championships, which were organized by the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation, and the International Federation of Sport Climbing.
Futaba Ito is a Japanese professional rock climber, sport climber and boulderer. She participates in both bouldering and lead climbing competitions. She won the IFSC Climbing Asian Youth Championships in lead and bouldering events in 2016, as well as Bouldering Japan Cup in 2017. She participated in combined and speed events at the 2018 Asian Games.
Ai Mori is a Japanese professional rock climber who specializes in competition lead climbing and competition bouldering.
Oriane Bertone is a French rock climber, who specializes in competition climbing, but is also noted for her sport climbing and her bouldering.
The 2021 IFSC Climbing World Cup was the 33rd edition of the international sport climbing competition series, held in seven locations. There are 11 events: four bouldering, five lead, and two speed events. The season began on 16 April in Meiringen, Switzerland with the first bouldering competition in the season, and concluded on 4 September in Kranj, Slovenia. The International Federation of Sport Climbing had initially scheduled 18 events concluding on 31 October, but COVID-19 travel restrictions resulted in the cancellation of events in Xiamen and Wujiang in China, Jakarta in Indonesia and Seoul in South Korea.
Competition lead climbing at the 2019 IFSC Climbing World Cup was held over six stages at six different locations, from 4 July to 27 October 2019. The top three in each competition received medals, and at the end of the season, the overall winners were awarded trophies. The overall winners were determined based upon points, which athletes were awarded for finishing in the top 30 of each individual event. Adam Ondra won the men's seasonal title, Chaehyun Seo won the women's seasonal title, and Japan won the national team title.
The 2022 IFSC Climbing World Cup is the 34th edition of the international sport climbing competition series organised by the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC), held in 12 locations. There are 21 events: six bouldering, seven lead, seven speed, and one bouldering & lead combined events. The series began on 8 April in Meiringen, Switzerland with the first bouldering competitions of the season, and concluded on 22 October in Morioka-Iwate, Japan, which introduced the Boulder & Lead combined format that will be used at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
Sorato Anraku is a Japanese rock climber who specializes in competition lead climbing and competition bouldering. In 2023, Anraku became the first climber to win both the Lead Overall World Cup and Boulder Overall World Cup in his debut senior season. He also won the gold medal in the combined boulder and lead event at the 2022 Asian Games, held in October 2023. He won the silver medal in the combined boulder and lead event at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Erin McNeice is an English rock climber who specialises in competition climbing. She represented Great Britain at the 2024 Summer Olympics, finishing fifth in the combined Boulder and Lead competition.
