Toby Roberts

Toby Roberts is an English rock climber, born on 15 March 2005, who specialises in competition climbing and outdoor sport climbing. He comes from Elstead in Surrey, was introduced to climbing at Edgeborough School in 2013, and as a child redpointed the 8a route Raindogs at Malham Cove in North Yorkshire at the age of ten. In 2020, aged 15, he became the youngest British climber to redpoint a 9a route when he climbed Rainshadow at Malham Cove, and in 2021 he became the 12th climber to redpoint Hubble at Raven Tor. After a bronze in lead at the Edinburgh World Cup in 2022, he won World Cup gold in both bouldering and lead in 2023. At the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris he won the gold medal in the combined boulder and lead event, the first British Olympic climbing medal of its kind, and he finished the year as World Cup champion in lead and combined. The account here rests on his English Wikipedia article, with the Olympedia athlete page as a second source.