Emma Hunt (born April 1, 2003) is an American
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 ...
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 ...
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and holds the American women's speed record with 6.67 seconds, set at the
IFSC Climbing World Championships in
Bern
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in August 202
Competition climbing career
Hunt finished second overall in speed at the
2022 IFSC Climbing World Cup
The 2022 IFSC Climbing World Cup is the 34th edition of the international sport climbing competition series organised by the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC), held in 12 locations. There are 21 events: six bouldering, seven lead, s ...
and has four World Cup podium finishes overall. She finished seventh at the
2021 IFSC Climbing World Championships
The 2021 IFSC Climbing World Championships was the 17th edition of the event. It was held in Moscow, Russia from 16 to 21 September 2021, alongside the 2021 IFSC Paraclimbing World Championships.
Although the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) had ...
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Hunt won her first senior event at the 2021 IFSC Pan-American Championships in
Ibarra, Ecuador.
She also won the gold medal in the
women's speed event at the
2022 World Games
The 2022 World Games were an international multi-sport event held from July 7 to 17, 2022, in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. They were the 11th World Games, a multi-sport event featuring disciplines of Olympic sports and other competitions ...
in July 2022.
Personal life
Hunt graduated a year early from high school and began attending
Kennesaw State University in 2020.
See also
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List of grade milestones in rock climbing
In rock climbing, a first free ascent (FFA) is the first redpoint (climbing), redpoint, onsight or flash (climbing), flash of a pitch (ascent/descent), single-pitch, multi-pitch climbing, multi-pitch (or big wall climbing, big wall), or bouldering ...
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History of rock climbing
In the history of rock climbing, the three main sub-disciplines: bouldering, single-pitch climbing, and big wall (or multi-pitch) climbing can trace their origins to late 19th-century Europe. Bouldering started in Fontainebleau, and was advan ...
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Rankings of most career IFSC gold medals
References
External links
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2003 births
Living people
World Games gold medalists
Competitors at the 2022 World Games
21st-century American women
Sportspeople from Georgia (U.S. state)
People from Woodstock, Georgia
Sportspeople from Cherokee County, Georgia
Kennesaw State University people
Sport climbers at the 2023 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 2023 Pan American Games
IFSC Climbing World Cup overall medalists
Speed climbers
IFSC Climbing World Championships medalists
Sport climbers at the 2024 Summer Olympics
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