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Sam Watson climbed the 49-foot overhanging wall in 4.74 seconds, a new world record, but had to settle for bronze. ... during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. ... his own speed climbing world record ...
A speed climbing wall is an artificial standardised climbing wall and is the main apparatus used for competitive speed climbing. For such competitions – including those in the Olympics 2020 – the speed climbing wall has been normed by the IFSC in a way that records are comparable. [ 1 ]
Samuel Watson (born February 27, 2006) [1] is an American professional rock climber who specializes in competition speed climbing and represents the United States at IFSC Climbing World Cups. He holds the world record for the discipline at 4.74 seconds, accomplished at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris , France, where he took a bronze medal.
Speed climbing is a climbing discipline in which speed is the ultimate goal. [1] Speed climbing is done on rocks, walls and poles and is only recommended for highly skilled and experienced climbers. [2] Competition speed climbing, which takes place on an artificial and standardized climbing wall, is the main form of speed climbing.
Iuliia Vladimirovna Kaplina (Russian: Юлия Владимировна Каплина; born 11 May 1993) is a Russian competition climber who has won multiple competition speed climbing events and set multiple world records.
Narasaki formerly held the Japanese record for competition speed climbing with a time of 5.73 seconds, which he secured in March 2021 at the Climbing Japan Cup speed competition. [3] He devised the "Tomoa skip", a speed climbing technique to bypass one of the lower holds on the speed climbing wall.
On 27 May 2022, during the second qualification round of the IFSC Climbing World Cup in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, she broke her own previous speed-climbing world record with a time of 6.53 seconds. [16] On 28 April 2023, during the IFSC Climbing World Cup in Seoul, South Korea, she broke her world records four times. [17]
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