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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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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]
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 ...
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]
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 ...