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Jérôme Meyer (born May 31, 1979) is a French 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 ...
, specializing in
competition bouldering 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 ...
. He is known for winning four
Bouldering 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 ...
s (2001, 2002, 2003, 2006).


Biographic notes

Son of mountaineers, Meyer engaged in skiing, mountain trekking, and mountain biking since he was a child. When he was 12 years old, he joined the climbing gym in Chambéry. He started competing in 1999 and throughout his career, he won four
Bouldering 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 ...
s (2001, 2002, 2003, 2006). He retired from international competitions in 2008, after the European Climbing Championship. Since then, he served as a director in the
International Federation of Sport Climbing The International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) is the international governing body for the sport of competitive climbing, which consists of the disciplines lead climbing, speed climbing, and bouldering. It was founded in Frankfurt on 27 Ja ...
.


Rankings


Climbing World Cup


Climbing World Championships


Number of medals in the Climbing World Cup


Bouldering


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 ...
*
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 ...
* Rankings of most career IFSC gold medals


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Meyer, Jerome 1979 births Emlyon Business School alumni French rock climbers Living people People from Lons-le-Saunier Sportspeople from Jura (department) IFSC Climbing World Championships medalists IFSC Climbing World Cup overall medalists Boulder climbers French competition climbers