Erin McNeice

Erin McNeice, born on 6 April 2004, is an English rock climber who specialises in competition climbing. She began climbing at five when her father took her and her older brother to a climbing gym, then spent four years living in Malaysia where she trained on larger walls. After entering her first national competition at twelve she joined the Great Britain junior squad and in 2022, aged seventeen, became the youngest member of the senior team. She won the British Lead senior title in 2022 and 2023, took Olympic qualifier bronze medals in Shanghai and Budapest, and represented Great Britain at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, finishing fifth in the combined Boulder and Lead final. In 2025 she won the IFSC Climbing World Cup Lead title, becoming the first British woman to do so, and the article records her winning the 2026 World Cup Bouldering title and a European Lead gold in 2026.