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| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 April 2004 [1] [2] Rodmersham, Kent, England [2] | ||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Professional rock climber | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 160 cm (5 ft 3 in) [1] | ||||||||||||||
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Erin McNeice OLY (born 6 April 2004) 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.
McNeice started climbing at the age of five [2] [3] [4] when her father took her and her older brother to a climbing gym. [3] [4]
Aged 12, after four years living in Malaysia where she trained on larger climbing walls, [2] [4] McNeice entered her first national competition before eventually making it onto the Great Britain Climbing junior squad and going on to represent her country at the 2021 IFSC Climbing World Youth Championships, where she placed 5th in Bouldering and 10th in Lead. [4]
In 2022, and still only 17-years-old, she became the youngest member of the Great Britain Climbing senior team. [3] [4]
McNeice won the British Lead senior title in 2022 [5] and 2023. [6] [7]
She took a bronze medal at the first Olympic Qualifier Series event in Shanghai, China, in May 2024. [8] [9] [10]
The following month, McNeice matched that performance at the second event of the series in Budapest, Hungary, to book her spot at the 2024 Summer Olympics. [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]
Her Olympic place was officially confirmed when Team GB named their climbing squad on 3 July 2024. [16] [17] At the Games in Paris, McNeice was 10th after the bouldering section of the semi-finals [18] [19] and then came seventh in the Lead round to qualify for the final in a combined seventh position. [20] [21] She finished fifth in the final. [22] [23] [24]
On 3 October 2024, McNeice won her first IFSC Climbing World Cup medal, claiming bronze in the bouldering competition at the final event of the 2024 season in Seoul, South Korea. [25] [26] In doing so she became only the third British woman to win a medal at a Bouldering World Cup competition after Shauna Coxsey and Claire Bell. [25] [26] The result also meant McNeice finished ninth in the overall 2024 Bouldering World Cup standings. [25]
On January 26th 2025, she won the British Bouldering Championships 2025. [27]
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