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Nationality | ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Woodstock, Georgia | April 1, 2003||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Education | Kennesaw State University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years active | 2018–present | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 174 cm (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Type of climber | Speed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Known for | United States women's speed record (6.25 sec) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Emma Hunt (born April 1, 2003) is an American competition climber who specializes in competition speed climbing, [1] and holds the American women's speed record with 6.25 seconds, set in July 2025 at the Climbing world Cup in Charmonix, France. [2]
Hunt finished second overall in speed at the 2022 IFSC Climbing World Cup and has four World Cup podium finishes overall. [3] She finished seventh at the 2021 IFSC Climbing World Championships. [4]
Hunt won her first senior event at the 2021 IFSC Pan-American Championships in Ibarra, Ecuador. [1] She also won the gold medal in the women's speed event at the 2022 World Games in July 2022. [5]
Hunt competed in speed climbing at the 2024 Summer Olympics. [6] She won her heat against Manon Lebon of France in the elimination round of qualifications with a time of 6.38. Hunt ended up in fifth place after losing in the quarterfinals to Rajiah Sallsabillah of Indonesia.
Hunt graduated a year early from high school and began attending Kennesaw State University in 2020. [7]
Discipline | 2024 |
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Speed | 5 |
Discipline | 2021 | 2023 |
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Speed | 7 | 2 |
Discipline | 2019 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
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Speed | 51 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 |
Discipline | 2020 | 2021 |
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Bouldering | — | 3 |
Speed | — | 1 |
Combined | 8 | — |