Johanna Ernst

Johanna Ernst is an Austrian professional rock climber, born on 16 November 1992, who specialises in competition lead climbing, competition bouldering and outdoor sport climbing. She began climbing at eight. In 2008, aged sixteen, she took part in her first Lead Climbing World Cup and won it, earning three gold, two silver and one bronze medals, and in the same year she won the Rock Master climbing festival and the Lead Climbing European Championship in Paris. In 2009 she won the Lead Climbing World Championships in Qinghai and her second Lead World Cup in a row, and was awarded the Gold Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria. An ankle sprain kept her out of the 2010 World Cup, and she took silver at the European Championships in Imst that year. Outdoors she redpointed the 8c+ route Open your Mind at Santa Linya in 2012. The account here rests on her English Wikipedia article alone.