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| Nationality | French | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | March 10, 2005 Réunion, Overseas France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 164 cm (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Known for | Youngest person to solve a V14 (8B+) boulder problem | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Oriane Bertone (born March 10, 2005) is a French rock climber, who specializes in competition climbing, but is also noted for her sport climbing and her bouldering.
In 2018, when she was 12 years old, Bertone became the youngest climber to send a V14 (8B+) graded boulder problem when she solved Golden Shadow in Rocklands (South Africa). [1] In 2020, aged 14, she redpointed the sport climbing route, Panonoramix et les cyclopes, in Saint Léger at grade 8c+ (5.14c).
In 2019, she started competing in international youth competition climbing events, where she won multiple gold medals in both competition lead climbing and competition bouldering.
In 2021, Bertone made her IFSC Climbing World Cup debut at age 16 at the Boulder World Cup in Meiringen, where she advanced to the final and won a silver medal. [2]
In 2023, Bertone won her first IFSC Climbing World Cup gold medal at the Boulder World Cup in Prague, beating Janja Garnbret in doing so. [3] She went on to win a silver medal in bouldering at the 2023 IFSC Climbing World Championships and secure a spot for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris by placing first in the European Boulder and Lead Climbing Olympic Qualifier. [4] [5]
In 2024, Bertone finished in eighth place in the combined bouldering and lead climbing event at the 2024 Summer Olympics. [6]
Bertone was born in Nice in 2005, and grew up on the island of Réunion, a territory of France, to an Italian father and French mother. [7] [8]
Source: [9]
| Discipline | 2019 Youth B |
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| Boulder | 1 |
| Lead | 1 |
| Discipline | 2019 Youth B |
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| Boulder | 1 |
| Lead | 1 |
| Discipline | 2022 |
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| Boulder | 3 |
| Discipline | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
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| Boulder | 3 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 1 |
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| Season | First | Second | Third | Total |
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| 2021 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 2023 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 2025 | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
| Total | 2 | 9 | 0 | 11 |
8C (V15):
8B+ (V14):
8B (V13):
8c+ (5.14c):
8c (5.14b):
