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Sport Climbing At The 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification
There were 40 quota spots available for sport climbing at the 2020 Summer Olympics . Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) could obtain a maximum of 2 spots in each event (total 4 maximum across the 2 events). Each event had 20 competitors qualify: 18 from qualifying, 1 from the host (Japan), and 1 from Tripartite Commission invitations.Qualification System – Games of the XXXII Olympiad – ''Sport climbing''; International Federation of Sport Climbing, 15 March 2018 Timeline The European, African, Oceania and Asian Championships were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Asian Championship was later cancelled due to travel restrictions in Asian countries resulting from the pandemic. Qualification Japan, as the host, was guaranteed at least one place. Initially the rules were interpreted such that this spot would only be used if no Japanese athlete would manage to qualify through the other qualifying events. The first qualifying opportunity was the Combined World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sport Climbing At The 2020 Summer Olympics
Sport 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. Two qualification boulders were leaked on YouTube; the video was quickly taken down and the boulders were reset. Format On August 3, 2016, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) formally announced that sport climbing would be a medal sport in the 2020 Summer Olympics. The inclusion was proposed by the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) in 2015. The decision to combine three disciplines of lead climbing, bouldering, and speed climbing with one set of medals per gender caused widespread criticism in the cli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seo Chae-hyun
Seo Chae-hyun (Hangul: , born 1 November 2003), also known as Chaehyun Seo, is a South Korean professional rock climber who specializes in competition climbing. She won the overall 2019 World Cup title in competition lead climbing in her senior debut season. Early life Seo was born into a family of climbers. She started climbing in 2008. Her father owns a climbing gym in Seoul. Climbing career Rock climbing In 2018, at age fourteen, Seo redpointed a sport climbing route called ''Bad Girls Club'' at the Wicked Cave at Rifle, Colorado. On November 22, 2022, Seo redpointed the famous Spanish sport climb, '' La Rambla'', becoming the second woman to redpoint the route. Competition climbing In 2019, she made her IFSC Climbing World Cup debut and won the Lead World Cup season title ahead of Slovenian Janja Garnbret Janja Garnbret (born March 12, 1999) is a Slovenian rock climbing, rock climber and sport climber who has won multiple lead climbing and bouldering events a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shauna Coxsey
Shauna Coxsey (born 27 January 1993) is an English professional rock climber. She is the most successful competition climber in the UK, having won the IFSC Bouldering World Cup Season in both 2016 and 2017. She retired from competition climbing after competing in the 2020 Olympics. Early life Coxsey was born on 27 January 1993 in Runcorn, Cheshire. She began climbing in 1997 at age four, inspired by a television broadcast of Catherine Destivelle climbing in Mali. Career Coxsey was mainly active in competition climbing and has participated in several international competitions in bouldering. She has won the British Bouldering Championships on multiple occasions. In 2012, she won the 9th edition of the Melloblocco and placed 2nd in the World Cup stages in Log-Dragomer and Innsbruck. She finished third in the 2012 Bouldering World Cup. In 2013, she cleanly ascended her first problem graded when she climbed ''Nuthin' But Sunshine'' in Rocky Mountain National Park. In Novembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janja Garnbret
Janja Garnbret (born March 12, 1999) is a Slovenian rock climbing, rock climber and sport climber who has won multiple lead climbing and bouldering events at climbing competitions. In 2021, she became the first ever female Olympic gold medalist in sport climbing, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest competitive climbers of all time. She is also the List of first ascents (sport climbing)#Onsighted / Flashed by women, world's first-ever female climber to onsight an graded sport climbing route. As of the end of 2022, Garnbret had List of best IFSC results, won the most IFSC gold medals of any competitive climber in history. Garnbret won her first international title in the lead competition at the 2014 IFSC Climbing World Youth Championships, World Youth B Championships. In July 2015, just after turning 16, she started competing in the senior category of the Lead Climbing World Cup. Since then, she participated in 42 Lead Climbing World Cup events, missing the podium in only ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean McColl
Sean, also spelled Seán or Séan in Irish English, is a male given name of Irish origin. It comes from the Irish versions of the Biblical Hebrew name ''Yohanan'' (), Seán (anglicized as ''Shaun/ Shawn/ Shon'') and Séan (Ulster variant; anglicized ''Shane/Shayne''), rendered ''John'' in English and Johannes/Johann/Johan in other Germanic languages. The Norman French ''Jehan'' (see ''Jean'') is another version. For notable people named Sean, refer to List of people named Sean. Origin The name was adopted into the Irish language most likely from ''Jean'', the French variant of the Hebrew name ''Yohanan''. As Gaelic has no letter (derived from ; English also lacked until the late 17th Century, with ''John'' previously been spelt ''Iohn'') so it is substituted by , as was the normal Gaelic practice for adapting Biblical names that contain in other languages (''Sine''/''Siobhàn'' for ''Joan/Jane/Anne/Anna''; ''Seonaid''/''Sinéad'' for ''Janet''; ''Seumas''/''Séamus'' for ''Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludovico Fossali
Ludovico Fossali (born 21 May 1997) is an Italian Competition speed climbing, competition speed climber. He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Sport climbing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's combined, Men's combined climbing. Career Fossali won several medals at the Climbing Italian Championships, Italian Climbing Championships, including the speed climbing gold medal at the 2017 championships in Arco, Trentino, Arco. He won the overall bronze speed climbing medal in the Speed climbing at the 2017 IFSC Climbing World Cup, 2017 IFSC Climbing World Cup. He won the speed climbing gold medal at the 2019 IFSC Climbing World Championships in Hachioji, Japan. He placed 9th in the Combined event, securing a qualification for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.Mark AgnewTokyo 2020 Olympics: Who has qualified for sport climbing? Spots decided before final begins, Ondra misses the cut.scmp.com, August 19, 2019. Accessed August 19, 2019 References External links * * * * * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Megos
Alexander Megos (born 12 August 1993) is a German rock climber. He was the first climber to on-sight (climb on the first try without prior practice or advice) a route graded . He has completed multiple routes and boulder problems that are notoriously difficult, including two routes (''Perfecto Mundo'' and ''Bibliographie''), six routes (''First Round, First Minute'', ''Fight Club,'' ''King Capella,'' ''Ratstaman Vibrations,'' and ''The Full Journey''), and some boulders with a confirmed rating. Climbing career Megos started climbing at the age of six. With his father, he climbed multi-pitch routes up to 300 m at the age of ten. In 2006, Megos began training in the mountainous region of his native Bavaria, known as Franconian Switzerland, and later at the German Alpine Club's national climbing center in Erlangen- Nuremberg. There, he was mentored by Patrick Matros and Ludwig Korb, who continue to train and coach Megos to this day. In 2007, Megos completed his first . Two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mickaël Mawem
Mickaël Mawem (born 3 August 1990 at Nimes, France) is a French professional rock climber who specializes in competition bouldering. He is the 2023 World boulder champion. He qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics by finishing 7th at the 2019 IFSC Climbing World Championships.Qualification System – Games of the XXXII Olympiad – ''Sport climbing''; International Federation of Sport Climbing, 15 March 2018 He also won the bouldering event in the 2019 IFSC Climbing European Championships The IFSC Climbing European Championships are the biennial European championship for competition climbing organized by the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC). The first competition was held in Frankfurt in 1992. Championships ..., and at the 2023 World Championships at Bern. Mawem was first selected for the national team in 2014. Personal life His older brother Bassa is also a professional rock climber. References Living people 1990 births French rock climbers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rishat Khaibullin descent.
Rishat Khaibullin (russian: Ришат Хайбуллин; born 21 September 1995) is a Kazakh competition climber, who specializes in competition speed climbing. He won the bronze medal in the combined event at the 2019 IFSC Climbing World Championships, which qualified him for the 2020 Summer Olympics. He is also a Master of Sports on International Class. He lives and trains in Brno, Czech Republic. Khaibullin is from Tatar The Tatars ()Tatar in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different International Competitions References 1995 births[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jakob Schubert
Jakob Schubert (born December 31, 1990) is an Austrian professional rock climber, sport climber and boulderer. He was World Champion (2012, 2018, 2021) and World Cup winner (2011, 2014, 2018) in Lead climbing. He has redpointed to . In August 2021, he won bronze at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. As of the end of 2022, Shubert had won the most men’s IFSC gold medals of any competitive climber in history. Biography He started climbing in 2003, when he was twelve years old. In 2004, he participated in the European Youth Cup and World Youth Championships. Since 2007, he regularly participates in the World Cup competitions for lead climbing. For seven world Cup seasons out of ten, from 2007 to 2016, he also competed in bouldering. In 2011, he won the Lead World Cup and the silver medal at the Lead World Championships in Arco. The World Cup was outstandingly obtained by winning seven consecutive competitions in that season. Previously, no climber was ever able to win as man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kai Harada
Kai Harada (原田 海 ''Harada Kai''; born May 10, 1999) is a Japanese competition boulderer. Harada started climbing in 2009 in Osaka. He started competition climbing in 2015, placing in the Youth A Bouldering Championships and the Junior Asian Championships. In 2018 he won the Bouldering Climbing World Championships as an outsider, and was the only person to get four tops in the final. In December 2020, Harada's qualification for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 1 ... was confirmed after a dispute between the IFSC and the Japan Mountaineering and Sport Climbing Association. Rankings Climbing World Cup Climbing World Championships Youth Adult Number of medals in the Climbing World Cup Bouldering References External lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomoa Narasaki
Tomoa Narasaki (楢﨑 智亜 ''Narasaki Tomoa'', born June 22, 1996) is a Japanese professional sport climber and boulderer. He started climbing at age 10, together with Sachi Amma, in Sachi's family climbing gym. Previously, he had been training apparatus gymnastics. In 2016 and 2019, he won both the Bouldering World Championship and the overall title at the Bouldering World Cup. His younger brother Meichi Narasaki is also a prominent professional climber. In 2019, Narasaki qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics by winning gold in the IFSC Climbing World Championships. He placed fourth in the Olympic combined event. Narasaki formerly held the Japanese record for speed climbing with a time of 5.73 seconds, which he secured in March 2021 at the Climbing Japan Cup speed competition. He is credited with devising the "Tomoa skip", a novel speed climbing method to bypass one of the lower holds in the speed climbing wall. Rankings Climbing World Cup Climbing World Champions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
