Kilian Fischhuber (born 1 August 1983) is a professional

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sport climber 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 ...

and

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. He participated in

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

lead climbing Lead climbing is a climbing style, predominantly used in rock climbing. In a roped party one climber has to take the lead while the other climbers follow. The ''lead climber'' wears a harness attached to a climbing rope, which in turn is connecte ...

competitions. From 2005 to 2011, he won five Bouldering World Cups. No other male climber was ever able to win it more than three times, or win it three times in a row. Due to his outstanding career, he was awarded the La Sportiva Competition Award in 2009, together with

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Biography

Fischhuber discovered indoor

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in 1995. From 1997 to 1999 he participated in Lead climbing international youth competitions. In 1999, when he was 16 years old, he entered the Austrian bouldering team and started competing in the Bouldering World Cup, winning his first bronze medal in 2003 and his first gold in 2004. He won the Bouldering World Cup five times, in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2011. No other climber was ever able to win it more than three times, and no other climber was able to win it three times in a row ( Jérôme Meyer won it in 2001, 2003, 2006). At the end of 2014 he announced his retirement from competitions.

Rankings

Climbing World Cup

Climbing World Championships

Climbing European Championships

Number of medals in the Climbing World Cup

Bouldering

Boulder Worldcup Vienna 29-05-2010a semifinals070 Kilian Fischhuber

Rock climbing

Boulder problems

Fischhuber climbed boulder problems graded up to .

Single- pitch routes

: :* '' Action directe'' -

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( DEU) - 26 September 2006 - Ninth ascent :* ''Underground'' - Massone (

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) - 2005 - First ascent by Manfred Stuffer, 1998 : :* ''Bumaye '' -

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) - 2010 :* ''Dolby Surround'' -

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) - 2008 :* ''Sanjski Par Extension'' - Misja Pec ( ) - 2006 :* ''Alien Carnage'' -

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) - 2006 :* ''Bah Bah Black Sheep'' -

Céüse Céüse (french: Montagne de Céüse) is a limestone mountain in the Hautes-Alpes ''département'' of France near Gap and Sigoyer. The "Pic de Céüse" is at an elevation of , and the whole massif is included in the Natura 2000 protected area. ...

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) - 2005 :* ''Za stara kolo...'' - Misja Pec ( SVN) - 2004 :* ''Biographie'' -

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Multi- pitch routes

* ''Des Kaisers neue Kleider'' -

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) - 28 September 2009 - First ascent by

Stefan Glowacz Stefan Glowacz (born March 22, 1965 in Tittmoning) is a German professional rock climber and adventurer. He started climbing at the age of 12 and advanced to one of the world's best sports climbers only few years later. Since 1993 he has been d ...

, 1994

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fischhuber, Kilian 1983 births Living people Austrian rock climbers People from Waidhofen an der Ybbs Sportspeople from Lower Austria 20th-century Austrian people 21st-century Austrian people