Noah Bratschi (born July 31, 2000) is an American professional rock climber 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 ...

and represents the

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...

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 ...

s. He won the bronze medal at the 2021

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 ...

(IFSC)

World Championship A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ...

in Moscow, Russia. With this accomplishment he became the first American speed climber to win a World Championship medal in thirty years (since 1991), and with that, he also became the first American to ever win a medal on the modern IFSC homologated speed climbing wall. On May 20, 2022, at the IFSC World Cup in Salt Lake City, with his silver medal performance, Bratschi became the first ever American male speed climber to finish on the podium at a speed climbing World Cup. At the 2021

USA Climbing USA Climbing is the national governing body of the sport of competition climbing in the United States. It promotes competition climbing in the United States in the disciplines of bouldering, lead climbing, and speed climbing, in elite, youth and ...

Team Trial Invitationals, Bratschi set an American record in speed climbing. He was the 2022 North American Cup gold medalist, the silver medalist at the 2019 US Open National Championships and the bronze medalist at the 2022 US Open National Championships As an accomplished youth competitor, he won silver medals at the 2018 IFSC World Youth Championships in Moscow, Russia and the 2017 Youth Pan American Championships in Montreal, Canada. He was the age group US Youth National Champion in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and the 2019 silver medalist.

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Team USA profile

IFSC profile
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