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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]
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 ...
Sam Watson (L) set a world record in the men's sport climbing speed bronze race during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. ... Watson's world record game in the bronze medal race.
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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]
Team USA’s Sam Watson wins ahead of Iran’s Reza Alipour Shenazandifard in the men’s sport climbing speed bronze race during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on August 8, 2024.