Climbing at 2024 Paris Olympics: Hello friends, welcome to our new article, so in today’s article we are going to talk about Climbing at 2024 Paris Olympics: How it works, Team USA stars Climbing debuted at the Tokyo Games of 2021. Prior to that, the sport first made it onto the Olympic radar at the Buenos Aires Youth Olympic Games in 2018.
Climbing’s addition, along with skateboarding and surfing, was part of a movement to expand the program to include more urban sports with a focus on attracting more popularity among younger people.
How does Sport Climbing Combined Olympics
So let me tell you that Olympic sport climbing is broken down into three disciplines: bouldering, speed and lead.
Bouldering: Athletes ascend up a 4.5-meter wall (nearly 15 feet) without ropes in a limited period of time and in the fewest attempts possible.
Lead: Climbers go as high as they can on a 15-meter wall (nearly 50 feet) in six minutes in a single attempt.
Speed: One-on-one elimination rounds and also a race against the clock, climbers scale a 15-meter wall with a five-degrees incline. The best athletes can do it in less than six seconds for men, and the top women typically break seven seconds.
The scoring system is also different from the one used in Tokyo. The scores from each discipline during the 2021 Games were multiplied by each other to achieve a final score. But with speed climbing out of the equation, the new judging outlook for bouldering and lead involves a maximum of 200 points. Climbers score points in bouldering by advancing up the wall through various “zones” (5 points for the low zone, 10 points for the high zone) and for reaching the top hold (25 points). Points are deducted for attempts, and a perfect bouldering round of flashing four boulder problems is worth 100 points.
In lead, athletes score by successfully holding the top 40 holds – the number of points scored for each hold will increase as they move higher on the wall. If an athlete moves toward the next hold but fails to securely hold it, they will be awarded 0.1 points on top of their previous score.
Top Team USA athletes for climbing at 2024 Paris Olympics
- Sam Watson: With a time of 4.79 seconds, Watson, 18, currently holds the men’s speed world record holder. He finished 2023 ranked eighth in the world in men’s speed and won gold at the Pan American Games in Santiago last year.
- Natalia Grossman: She finished last year ranked No. 1 in women’s boulder, and fifth in the combined boulder & lead category. Grossman took gold in boulder & lead at the Pan American Games.
- Brooke Raboutou: Finished fifth in Tokyo and is the daughter of former climbing world cup champions Robyn Erbesfield-Raboutou and Didier Raboutou, who hails from France (Brooke speaks fluent French).
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