Georg Parma

Georg Parma, born on 15 April 1997, is an Austrian competition climber who has worked in all three climbing formats: lead, bouldering and speed. He began climbing at the age of five and grew up through the youth ranks, winning the European Youth Championships in lead climbing in Singapore in 2012 in the Youth B category and finishing third at the World Youth Championships in Gemozac the same year. He repeated both results in Youth A in 2014, taking the European title in Edinburgh and a world youth podium in Noumea, and he won the European Youth Cup in lead climbing in 2014 and 2015. From 2014, at seventeen, he started to appear in Climbing World Cup competitions. At home he won the Austrian national championship in lead climbing in 2015 and in bouldering in 2018. He is based in Graz, where he prepared for the Tokyo Olympic climbing programme.