Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Born | 2003or2004(age 20–21) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relative | Sam Avezou (brother) [1] [2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Competition climbing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
|
Zélia Avezou (born 2003/2004) [3] [4] [a] is a French competition climber. She competed at the 2023 European Games, winning the gold medal in the women's bouldering event. [5] She also competed at the 2024 IFSC Climbing European Championships, winning the bronze medal in the women's combined event. [6]
Speed climbing is a climbing discipline in which speed is the ultimate goal. Speed climbing is done on rocks, walls and poles and is only recommended for highly skilled and experienced climbers.
Brooke Raboutou is a French-American professional rock climber who specializes in competition climbing where she competes as part of the US National Team. She won the silver medal in the combined bouldering and lead climbing event at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
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.
Competition climbing made its Olympic debut at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. Two events were held, one each for men and women. The format controversially consisted of one combined event with three disciplines: lead climbing, speed climbing and bouldering. The medals were determined based on best performance across all three disciplines. This format was previously tested at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics. The Olympic code for sports climbing is CLB.
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.
Miho Nonaka is a Japanese competition climber who specializes in competition bouldering. She is an Olympic silver medalist in sport climbing.
Aleksandra (Ola) Mirosław is a Polish soldier and competition speed climber. She is a two-time women's speed world champion as well as the current women's competition speed climbing world record holder. Mirosław won the gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the speed climbing event, becoming the first ever Olympic champion in this event.
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.
France was the host nation of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. French athletes have appeared in every Summer Olympic Games of the modern era, alongside Australia, Great Britain, Greece, and Switzerland.
Luce Douady was a French climber. She made her debut professional appearance on the IFSC Climbing World Cup circuit, where she finished in fifth place, and became youth world champion in 2019. She also won the bronze medal at senior level in the 2019 IFSC Climbing European Championships in Edinburgh.
Natalia Grossman is an American professional rock climber who specializes in competition climbing. She represents the United States at IFSC Climbing World Cup in competition bouldering and competition lead climbing. She has had 22 podium finishes at World Cup events, including 11 gold medals, and is the only climber to have won four consecutive overall titles in bouldering.
Manuel Cornu is a French competition climber who specializes in competition bouldering. He participated at the 2016 and 2021 IFSC Climbing World Championships, being awarded two bronze medals and a silver medal in the men's bouldering and men's combined events.
Natalia Kałucka is a Polish competition climber who specialises in competition speed climbing. She is a World Championships, European Championships and European Games gold medallist, and a World Games silver medallist. Kałucka won the gold medal in the women's speed event at the 2021 World Championships, 2024 European Championships and 2023 European Games. She is the twin sister of fellow speed climber Aleksandra Kałucka.
Competition climbing at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place from 5 to 10 August at Le Bourget Sport Climbing Venue in Saint-Denis, returning to the program for the second time since the sport's official debut three years earlier in Tokyo 2020. The total number of medal events was doubled from two in the previous edition because the boulder-and-lead tandem had been separated from the speed format. Furthermore, the number of climbers increased from 40 to 68.
In qualifying for the 2024 Summer Olympics, a total of 68 climbers, with an equal distribution between men and women, will compete across two separate competition climbing disciplines at these Games for the first time, namely: a unique competition bouldering-and-competition lead climbing combined event, and a separate competition speed climbing event.
Jesse Grupper is an American Olympic rock climber who specializes in competition climbing. In 2022, Grupper came in third overall in the 2022 IFSC Climbing World Cup in the competition lead climbing discipline. He earned the gold medal in the 2023 Pan American Championships in the combined boulder and lead climbing discipline. Grupper is competing for the United States at the 2024 Paris Olympics in Men's combined sport climbing on August 5, 7, and 9, 2024.
Sam Avezou is a French rock climber who specializes in competition climbing. He won the silver medal in the bouldering event at the 2022 IFSC Climbing European Championships. He qualified for the boulder and lead combined event at the 2024 Summer Olympics, placing 11th overall.
Paul Jenft is a French rock climber who specializes in competition climbing. He finished third in the bouldering event in Hachioji at the 2023 IFSC Climbing World Cup. He qualified for the boulder and lead combined event at the 2024 Summer Olympics, placing 8th in the final.
Capucine Viglione is a French competition climber who specializes in competition speed climbing. She was a finalist for the 2024 French Olympic team in the speed climbing event.