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Sam Watson climbed the 49-foot overhanging wall in 4.74 seconds, a new world record, ... set a world record in the men's sport climbing speed bronze race during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Watson is the fastest man in this sport, again—he set a world record of 4.75 seconds on Tuesday, in the preliminary heats. ... for a millisecond, to speed climbing. The races are usually very ...
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.
The IFSC also sanctions speed climbing competitions [5] and those events that entail world record attempts. [6] Speed climbing was one of the three climbing modalities included in the combined format at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, along with lead and bouldering.
At a World Cup event in China in April, Watson broke the speed-climbing world record twice in one day: he clocked 4.85 sec. during his first qualification round, beating the previous mark of 4.90 ...
Veddriq Leonardo (born 11 March 1997) is an Indonesian competition speed climber.He has held the world record for the discipline for about a year twice, first after setting it [1] en route to winning the men's speed climbing event at the 2021 IFSC Climbing World Cup in Salt Lake City, and again at the 2023 IFSC Climbing World Cup in Seoul. [2]
As of Tuesday, an 18-year-old from Texas can lay claim to being the fastest-ever Olympian – at least when it comes to traveling vertically. When Sam Watson set a speed climbing world record of 4 ...
Kiromal Katibin (born 21 August 2000) is an Indonesian competition climber who specializes in competition speed climbing.He was the world record holder in speed climbing, with a time of 5.009 seconds recorded at 2022 IFSC Climbing World Cup in Chamonix, France in July 2022, until it was broken by his compatriot Veddriq Leonardo in April 2023.