Sport climbing consists of three separate disciplines: speed, bouldering and lead. At the last Olympics, one single combined event was held that incorporated all three disciplines. For the 2024 ...

Gen-Z sport' - First introduced at the Tokyo ... with Miroslaw the first-ever Olympic speed climbing champion. The 6,000-capacity crowd at the sun-baked Le Bourget stadium north of Paris cheered ...

Read on to learn more about the qualification process for Olympic hopefuls in sport climbing. In speed climbing, 28 athletes (14 men, 14 women) have qualified for the Paris Games. For the bouldering ...

Speed climbing - a vertical sprint ... boulder and lead - as a compromise because the Olympics could only offer a single medal event for the new sport. But in Paris, speed climbing will, to ...

In speed climbing, competitors race to the top of a 49-foot wall; and in lead climbing, competitors have six minutes to climb as high as they can on an increasingly complex wall.

Miroslaw had set her previous world record of 6.24 seconds at the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC ... finals and semi-finals of Olympic speed climbing will be held on Wednesday.

American Sam Watson broke the world record in speed sport climbing, but did so in the bronze medal match after being upset in the semifinals of the Paris Olympics. World-record holder Aleksandra ...