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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. ... set a world record in the men's sport climbing speed bronze race during the ...
The current IFSC rules for climbing competitions [3] refer to "artificial structures designed to ... the IFSC Speed Licence Rules". For the latter, the most current document is from 2022. [4] While both a 15 m and a 10 m wall are specified, world records are taken on the 15 m wall only.
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.
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 ...
Alipour advanced to the knockout stage with a run time of 5.06 seconds as the fastest elimination heat loser of the men's speed climbing in the 2024 Olympic Games. [8] [9] [10] Alipour finished in the fourth place after he lost to American Samuel Watson in the bronze medal match. Watson won bronze with a world record time of 4.74 seconds. [11]
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.
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.
Mayan Smith-Gobat (born 1979) is a professional big-wall climber from New Zealand and, as of 2019, held the record for fastest all-female team ascent of El Capitan's The Nose in Yosemite, California at four hours and forty three minutes. Smith-Gobat, along with climbing partner Libby Sauter, completed the climb in