Jessica Pilz

Jessica Pilz is an Austrian professional rock climber, born on 22 November 1996 in Haag, Lower Austria, who specializes in competition climbing. She began competing in 2010 in lead and bouldering, and from 2011 to 2015 won six international youth competitions in lead. In 2018 she won the lead event at the World Championships in Innsbruck by a few seconds over Janja Garnbret and took bronze in the combined event, and in 2021 she won the combined event at the World Championships. She finished 7th at the 2020 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal in the combined bouldering and lead event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. She won the overall lead title in the World Cup series in 2023 and again in 2024. Outdoors she redpointed the 9a+ route Papichulo in Spain in November 2024. The account here rests on her English Wikipedia article, with the Olympedia athlete page as a second source.