Hiroto Shimizu

Hiroto Shimizu is a Japanese competition climber who specialises in competition lead climbing. He began on the IFSC Climbing World Cup circuit in 2014 and reached every lead semifinal in his debut season. In December 2015 he won gold in Lead and bronze in Bouldering at the Asian Youth Championships in Putrajaya. He took his first World Cup medal in July 2019 with silver at the Lead World Cup in Briancon, completing an all-Japanese podium, and in October 2019 won the Lead World Cup in Inzai, becoming the fifth Japanese man to win a Lead World Cup. He claimed silver in Lead at the 2023 Asian Championships in Riyadh, and his fourth place at the 2025 Lead Japan Cup returned him to the national team after six years, after which he won bronze in Lead at the 2025 Asian Cup in Almaty. The account here rests on his English Wikipedia article alone.