Hannah Meul (born April 3, 2001, in

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) is a German

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who specialises in competition bouldering and

bouldering Bouldering is a form of free climbing that is performed on small rock formations or artificial rock walls without the use of ropes or harnesses. While bouldering can be done without any equipment, most climbers use climbing shoes to help sec ...

. She won the silver medal in bouldering at the 2022 IFSC Climbing European Championships and has placed second three times on the

IFSC 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 ...

circuit.

Career

Meul began climbing at age seven and entered her first competition at age 10. In the 2015 season, she made her international debut, taking part in the European Youth Cup, European Youth Championships and IFSC Climbing World Youth Championships. At her first

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, she advanced to the semifinal and placed 12th. She was also the German lead champion that year. She placed fourth in lead at the 2020 European Championships in Moscow, and placed fifth in combined 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 ...

, also in Moscow. During the 2022 season, Meul qualified for her first World Cup final, topping all the final boulders in

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and finishing second to Natalia Grossman on attempts. She repeated her second-place finish at the

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Bouldering World Cup, again finishing behind Grossman. Meul then won the bouldering silver medal at the 2022 IFSC Climbing European Championships in Munich. She also made her first lead World Cup final in 2022, finishing fourth in

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. Meul began the 2023 season with a silver medal at the Bouldering World Cup in Hachioji, finishing behind

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. On the podium, she paid tribute to her Germany teammate Christoph Schweiger, who had recently been killed in a traffic incident, by displaying his IFSC competitor badge.

Personal

In 2020, she enrolled at the

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. She has climbed boulders outdoors at

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Achievements

IFSC Climbing World Championships

IFSC Climbing World Cup

Season rankings

Podiums

= Bouldering

IFSC European Climbing Championships

Junior Olympics

* Buenos Aires 2018: 4th place (Combined)

Notable ascents

Bouldering

* ''Partage'' () –

, 2021 * ''Duel'' () – Fontainebleau, 2021 * ''Tigre et Dragon'' () – Fontainebleau, 2021 * ''Golden assis'' () – Fontainebleau, 2021 * ''Foxy Lady'' () – Magic Wood, 2021

References

External links

DAV profile
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