Brooke Raboutou (born April 9, 2001) is an American professional

rock climber Rock climbing is a sport in which participants climb up, across, or down natural rock formations. The goal is to reach the summit of a formation or the endpoint of a usually pre-defined route without falling. Rock climbing is a physically and ...

. At age 9, she ticked a and became the youngest female to climb a . At 10, she sent a and became the youngest female to climb . At 11, she became the youngest female to send . Raboutou also performed well on the youth climbing circuit from 2015 to 2018. In 2019, she qualified 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 ...

by finishing ninth in the combined

Climbing World Championships The IFSC Climbing World Championships are the biennial (i.e. held once every two years) world championship event for competition climbing that is organized by the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC). This event determines the mal ...

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Biography

Raboutou's parents, and

Robyn Erbesfield-Raboutou Robyn Erbesfield-Raboutou (born 8 August 1963), is an American rock climber and rock climbing coach. In competition lead climbing, she is a 4-time World Cup champion (1992, 1993, 1994, 1995), and won the biennial World Championships in 1995. Sh ...

, are former world champion rock climbers. Didier is a three-time World Cup champion, and Robyn is a five-time US champion and four-time World Cup champion. Raboutou began attending the

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in 2018, before taking time off in early 2020 to prepare for the later-postponed Tokyo Olympics. Raboutou finished in 5th place in Combined at the inaugural Sport Climbing event in the Olympic Games.

Rankings

World Cups

Season rankings

Podiums

Bouldering Lead

Climbing World Championships

Youth Senior

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* * * * * 2001 births Living people American female climbers American rock climbers University of San Diego people Sportspeople from Boulder, Colorado Sport climbers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic sport climbers of the United States 21st-century American women IFSC Climbing World Cup overall medalists Boulder climbers {{US-climbing-bio-stub