Sandrine Levet (born July 22, 1982) 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 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
competition bouldering and
competition lead climbing in particular. Levet is one of the most successful female competition climbers in history. Levet dominated competition bouldering in the early to mid-2000s, winning five
IFSC Bouldering World Cups, and one
IFSC Bouldering World Championship. Levet was also a strong competition lead climber, finishing second three times in the
IFSC Lead Climbing World Cup, which also helped her to win the overall
IFSC Combined Climbing World Cup five times. As of the end of 2022, Levet had won the
second-most IFSC gold medals of any female competition climber in history.
Biographic notes
Daughter of mountaineers, she started climbing when she was five years old. In the following ten years, she also practiced
cross-country skiing
Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing where skiers rely on their own locomotion to move across snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or other forms of assistance. Cross-country skiing is widely practiced as a sport and recreation ...
,
ski mountaineering
Ski mountaineering (abbreviated to skimo) is a skiing discipline that involves climbing mountains either on skis or carrying them, depending on the steepness of the ascent, and then descending on skis. There are two major categories of equipmen ...
,
gymnastics
Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, dedication and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, shou ...
and
swimming
Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ...
.
Rankings
Climbing World Cup
Climbing World Championships
Number of medals in the Climbing World Cup
Lead
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 ...
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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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Rankings of most career IFSC gold medals
References
External links
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1982 births
Living people
French rock climbers
IFSC Climbing World Championships medalists
IFSC Climbing World Cup overall medalists
Boulder climbers
French female climbers
French competition climbers