Kilian Fischhuber

Kilian Fischhuber, born on 1 August 1983, is a professional Austrian rock climber who specialised in bouldering, sport climbing and competition climbing, competing in bouldering and lead. He discovered indoor sport climbing in 1995, took part in international youth lead competitions from 1997 to 1999 and joined the Austrian bouldering team at sixteen. He won his first Bouldering World Cup bronze medal in 2003 and his first gold in 2004, and took the overall Bouldering World Cup five times, in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011, more often than any other climber. In 2009 he received the La Sportiva Competition Award together with Chris Sharma. Outdoors he redpointed routes up to grade 9a, including the ninth redpoint of Action Directe, and he announced his retirement from competitions at the end of 2014.