Futaba Ito

Futaba Ito is a Japanese professional competition climber, sport climber and boulderer, born on 25 April 2002. She takes part in both competition bouldering and competition lead climbing events. As a teenager she won the IFSC Climbing Asian Youth Championships in the lead and bouldering events in 2016, and in 2017 she won the Bouldering Japan Cup, the national bouldering title. She then competed in the combined and speed events at the 2018 Asian Games. Her early results mark her as one of a generation of Japanese climbers who rose through the youth ranks as the sport moved onto the Olympic stage.