Romain Desgranges, born on October 12, 1982, in Sainte-Colombe, is a

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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 ...

who specializes in competition climbing, and in outdoor

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 ...

and bouldering.

Biography

Romain Desgranges started climbing when he was 14 years old in his school. In 2017, he won both the

Climbing European Championships The IFSC Climbing European Championships are the biennial European championship for competition climbing organized by the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC). The first competition was held in Frankfurt in 1992. Championships ...

and the Climbing World Cup in the

competition lead 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 ...

discipline.

Rankings

Climbing World Championships

Climbing European Championships

Climbing World Cup

World Games

Number of medals in the Climbing World Cup

Lead

Rock climbing

Boulder problems

: :* ''The Kaizer Sauzé'' - Walid Wood (

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) - 2011 - First ascent : :* ''Radja'' - Branson ( Monthey, SUI) - November 2009 :* ''Underground Paradise'' -

Fionnay Fionnay is a village in the Swiss Alps, located in the canton of Valais. The village is situated in the western part of the canton, in the valley of Bagnes, south-east of Martigny. It is part of the municipality of Val de Bagnes. Fionnay lies at ...

( SUI) - First ascent : :* ''La danse des Balrogs'' - Branson ( Monthey, SUI) - November 2009 :* ''Seveso'' -

( SUI) - September 2009 - First ascent :* ''Permanent Midnight'' - Fionnay (Switzerland) - September 2009

Redpointed routes

: :* ''Haribal Lecter'' - Chamonix (

) - March 2011 - First ascent :* ''El intento'' - Cuenca ( ESP) - April 2016

References

External links

L'équipe de France aux Jeux mondiaux de 2009
{{DEFAULTSORT:Desgranges, Romain French rock climbers Living people 1982 births Competitors at the 2009 World Games Competitors at the 2013 World Games Competitors at the 2017 World Games World Games bronze medalists Sportspeople from Hautes-Alpes IFSC Climbing World Cup overall medalists French competition climbers