This is a ranking of total career IFSC victories obtained in the annual
IFSC Climbing World Cup and the biennial
IFSC Climbing World Championships, which were organized by the
International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation (from 1989 to 2006), and 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 ...
(since 2007).
Climbers are ranked based on the total number of victories (i.e. won the biennial Championship or won the overall annual Cup) obtained throughout their
competition climbing career across all four disciplines:
Lead climbing,
Bouldering,
Speed climbing, and the Combined discipline, in these two events.
Comparison with IFSC rankings
This list is distinct from the IFSC World Rankings, which are computed separately for each of the four disciplines (i.e. Lead, Bouldering, Speed), and are based on the sum of all results, and not just victories, achieved by each athlete in the last twelve months.
Most career IFSC gold medals is a metric that is tracked by the climbing media, as was widely reported in the case of Janja Garnbret, however, as the annual World Cup consists of several individual events, for which gold medals are awarded, the number of "victories" is usually less than the total number of "gold medals".
Tabulation
Athletes who have won at least won one gold medal in an
World Cup series or a
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, ...
are listed in the tables below. They are ranked based on the number of victories (T) they obtained throughout their career across all disciplines.
Separate scores are provided for each of the two types of competition (1 =
World Cups
A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities – usually international teams or individuals representing their countries – compete for the title of world champion. The event most associated with the concept i ...
and 2 =
World Championships), and the four disciplines (L =
Lead climbing, B =
Bouldering, S =
Speed climbing, and C = Combined disciplines). Therefore, L
1 is the number of Lead climbing World Cups awarded to each athlete.
For each athlete, the total number of victories (T) is obtained by adding together their total victories in the eight events:
:T = L
1 + B
1 + S
1 + C
1 + L
2 + B
2 + S
2 + C
2
Partial totals are also provided for each discipline and competition. For instance, the total number of victories obtained in
Lead climbing by each athlete is:
:L = L
1 + L
2
and the total number of
World Cups
A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities – usually international teams or individuals representing their countries – compete for the title of world champion. The event most associated with the concept i ...
awarded to each athlete is:
:T
1 = L
1 + B
1 + S
1 + C
1
Results for Men
Sortable table, pre-sorted by total number of victories (T), updated on November 14, 2022.
Results for Women
Sortable table, pre-sorted by total number of victories (T), updated on November 14, 2022.
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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IFSC Climbing World Cup
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IFSC Climbing World Championships
References
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