Alexey Rubtsov

Alexey Vyacheslavovich Rubtsov, born on 5 August 1988, is a Russian professional rock climber who specialises in competition bouldering. He won the bouldering discipline at the IFSC Climbing World Championships in 2009, tied for the win at the ninth Melloblocco in Val Masino, Italy, in 2012, and finished third in the boulder event at the 2017 World Games in Wroclaw. At the 2020 IFSC Climbing European Championships he won the combined event, which secured a place at the 2020 Summer Olympics. He began in the Russian competition championships in 2006 and 2007, entered the bouldering World Cup in 2008 and placed third in Sheffield and Munich in 2011. He later opened and manages his own bouldering gym, called Tokio, in the north of Moscow.