Farnaz Esmaeilzadeh

Farnaz Esmaeilzadeh, born in 1988 in Borujerd, is an Iranian competition speed climber. Speed climbing is the discipline in which athletes race to the top of a standardised wall, and she competed internationally on the IFSC Climbing World Cup circuit, finishing seventh in the overall rankings in 2015. In that same year she won a gold medal at the Canadian national climbing championship, and in 2016 she took a silver medal at the Escalade Canada National Speed Climbing Championships held in Central Saanich, British Columbia. Her career is a notable example of an Iranian woman competing at the highest level of sport climbing at a time when the sport was still growing in her home country and beyond.