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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 ...
Caroline set out to climb the highest volcanoes in each of the seven continents on 1 January 2023 by summiting the highest Volcano in the world; Ojos Del Salado 6,893 meters (22,615 ft.) in Chile, followed by Mt Sidley 4,285 meters (14,058 ft.) the highest Volcano in Antarctica, [3] then Pico De Orizaba 5,636 meters (18,491 ft.) in Mexico.
In speed climbing, climbers raced against each others in pairs on a standardized wall of 15m in height. In the qualification round, climbers had two runs on two different lanes; their best times were recorded and used for seeding placement in the Final rounds. In the final round, climbers raced head-to-head with the fastest to the top winning.
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.
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.
The total time of his climb from Base Camp to the summit and back to Base Camp was 18 hours 20 minutes. The record he beat (12 hours 45 minutes) was set just a few days earlier on May 23, 2003 by 25-year-old Pemba Dorjie, a Sherpa from Rolwaling Himal. Lakpa Gelu was the climbing Sardar of the
At the World Cup in Nanjing, Reza Alipour of Iran and Russia's Iuliia Kaplina set world records on their way to the men's and women's speed titles of 5.48 and 7.38 seconds respectively. [1] At the end of the season an overall ranking was determined based upon points, which athletes were awarded for finishing in the top 30 of each individual event.