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| Born | 4 September 2004 Vinderhoute, Belgium | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 173 cm (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Hannes Van Duysen (born 2004) is a Belgian rock climber who specialises in competition climbing. [1]
Van Duysen began competing at IFSC Climbing World Youth Championships in 2018. [2] At age 16, he won the boulder title at the 2021 Youth World Championships. [3] He won a second consecutive boulder title at the 2022 Youth World Championships. [4] In 2023, he placed third in boulder and first in Lead respectively at the Youth World Championships in Seoul. [5] [6]
Van Duysen began competing in senior competitions at age 16, entering the World Cups in 2021. [1]
In 2023, Van Duysen made his first IFSC World Cup bouldering final in Hachioji, finishing in second place. [7]
In 2024, he won the bronze medal at the Keqiao bouldering World Cup. [8] Van Duysen secured his berth to the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris through the Olympic Qualifier Series. [9] At the Olympics, he finished in fourteenth place in the semifinals of the combined event and did not advance to the finals. [10]
In 2025, he advanced to the finals in three of the six bouldering World Cups, notably placing third in Innsbruck. [11] [12]
| Discipline | Shanghai 2024 | Budapest 2024 |
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| Boulder & Lead | 6 | 4 |
| Discipline | Bern 2023 [13] | Seoul 2025 [14] |
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| Boulder | 25 | 15 |
| Lead | 29 | - |
| Boulder & Lead | 32 | - |
| Discipline | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
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| Boulder | 72 | 8 | 21 | 5 |
| Lead | 70 | 70 | 35 | 17 |
| Discipline | 2021 Youth A | 2022 Juniors | 2023 Juniors |
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| Boulder | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Lead | 6 | 10 | 1 |
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