Aries Susanti Rahayu (born 21 March 1995) is a

competition climber A climbing competition (or comp) is usually held indoors on purpose built climbing walls. There are three main types of climbing competition: lead, speed, and bouldering. In lead climbing, the competitors start at the bottom of a route and must c ...

athlete from

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...

who specializes in

competition speed climbing A climbing competition (or comp) is usually held indoors on purpose built climbing walls. There are three main types of climbing competition: lead, speed, and bouldering. In lead climbing, the competitors start at the bottom of a route and must c ...

competitions. She has been nicknamed "Spiderwoman". She was the world record holder for women in speed climbing, which she achieved by clocking a time of 6.995 seconds at the 2019 IFSC Xiamen World Cup. Also, this made her the first woman to climb a speed wall in less than seven seconds.

Biography

As a child, she used to climb trees at home and parks. In 2007, she was introduced to sport climbing by her teacher when she was still a junior high school student. In 2017, she competed in the

Climbing World Cup The IFSC Climbing World Cup is a series of climbing competitions held annually and organized by the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC). The athletes compete in three disciplines: lead, bouldering and speed. The number of competit ...

for the first time and got her first medal (silver) at the World Cup in

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. In the 2017 Asian Championships in

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, she was third in speed. In 2018, she got her first gold medal at the

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. Then, she got one bronze in

Tai'an Tai'an () is a prefecture-level city in Western Shandong Province of the People's Republic of China. Centered on Mount Tai, the city borders the provincial capital of Jinan to the north, Zibo to the east, Linyi to the southeast, Liaocheng to ...

and two more gold medals at the World Cups in Wujiang and

, all in

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. At the end of the 2018 season, she was second in the overall ranking in the speed discipline. In the same year, at the Asian Championships in

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, she was third after she false-started in the semifinal. In 2019, she became the women's world record holder in competition speed climbing, which she achieved by clocking a time of 6.995 seconds at the 2019 IFSC Xiamen World Cup. As well, this made her the first woman to climb a speed wall in less than seven seconds. Also in 2019, she was on the Forbes Asia's

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list. Aries is a Muslim and wears

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while she competes.

Awards and nominations

Achievements

Asian Games

''Women's speed'' ''Women's speed relay''

Asian Championships

''Women's speed'' ''Women's speed relay''

IFSC Climbing World Cup

''Women's speed''

World records

Rankings

Climbing World Cup

Asian Championships

Number of medals in the Climbing World Cup

Speed

References

External links

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FPTI Profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rahayu, Aries Susanti 1995 births Living people People from Grobogan Regency Indonesian Muslims Indonesian female climbers Indonesian rock climbers Sport climbers at the 2018 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for Indonesia Asian Games medalists in sport climbing Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games IFSC Climbing World Cup overall medalists Speed climbers Sportspeople from Central Java Indonesian competition climbers