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Angela Eiter

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Angela Eiter is an Austrian professional rock climber, born in 1986 in Arzl im Pitztal, who excelled in both competition lead climbing and outdoor sport climbing. She won three IFSC World Cups in a row from 2004 to 2006 and four world championships in lead climbing, in 2005, 2007, 2011 and 2012, and reached her 25th World Cup win in 2011. Outdoors she became the first woman to climb a route graded 9b when she sent La Planta de Shiva in 2017, and in 2020 she made the first free ascent of Madame Ching, also 9b. She began climbing at eleven when her school offered her a chance to try it.

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1986 1
Gender
Female 1
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5+ 1
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is an Austrian professional rock climber who specialises in competition climbing and sport climbing
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    Angela "Angy" Eiter (born 27 January 1986 in Arzl im Pitztal)
  • Article text, gender
    became the first woman to climb a 9b (5.15b) route
  • Lead, titles
    she won three IFSC World Cups in a row (2004-2006), and four IFSC World Championships
  • Lead, nationality
    is an Austrian professional rock climber who specialises in competition climbing and sport climbing
  • Plays: Rock Climbing, Lead
    is an Austrian professional rock climber who specialises in competition climbing and sport climbing
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