Alannah Yip

Alannah Yip is a Canadian rock climber and former competition climber, born on 26 October 1993 in Vancouver and raised in North Vancouver. She began climbing at nine, won her first national championship at twelve, and graduated in mechanical engineering from the University of British Columbia in 2018. She won the gold medal at the Pan American Climbing Championships in Los Angeles in 2020, which qualified her for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, where Olympedia records her 14th in the combined event. She later retired from competition climbing in 2024 after an unsuccessful qualification campaign for the Paris Olympics, which was affected by alopecia universalis. Her mother is Scottish and her father is Chinese, and she has been supported by Petro-Canada. The account here rests on her English Wikipedia article, with the Olympedia athlete page as a second source.