Jernej Kruder (born December 5, 1990) is a Slovenian

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 ...

who specializes in

competition 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 ...

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 ...

and

sport climbing Sport climbing (or Bolted climbing) is a form of rock climbing that relies on permanent anchors (or bolts), permanently fixed into the rock for climber protection, in which a rope that is attached to the climber is clipped into the anchors to ...

. In 2018, he won 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 ...

in competition bouldering.

Climbing career

In 2016 Jernej completed the graded

deep-water soloing Deep-water soloing (DWS), also known as psicobloc, is a form of solo rock climbing that relies solely upon the presence of water at the base of a climb to protect against injury from falls from the generally high-difficulty routes. While typica ...

route ''

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'' in

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. The route was originally established by

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in 2006. Jernej was only the second climber to repeat it. It took him 16 days and 39 attempts to finish the route. Jernej initially graded the route . Jan Hojer, who got the third ascend on the route, downgraded it to 9a+. In September 2018, he managed to get the first ascent on the boulder, ''Metafizika'', near

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. It has a bouldering grade of , and was only the second boulder of that difficulty in Slovenia. On 31 December 2018, Jernej made the first ascent of ''Dugi rat'' at the crag Vrulja close to

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. With a grade of it is the hardest sport climbing route in the country. Jernej bolted the route himself and had been working on it for 4 years. The name ''Dugi rat'' means "long cape/horn" in Croatian.

Rankings

Climbing World Cup

Climbing World Championships

Youth Adult

Rock Master

Number of medals in the Climbing World Cup

Bouldering

References

External links

Kruder's profile
on Digitalrock.de {{DEFAULTSORT:Kruder, Jernej Slovenian rock climbers Living people 1990 births IFSC Climbing World Cup overall medalists Boulder climbers Slovenian competition climbers