The IFSC Climbing World Championships, renamed the World Climbing Championship in 2025, is the biennial world championship event for competition climbing, organized by the international federation of the sport. It decides the male and female world champions in lead, bouldering and speed climbing, and from 2012 to 2023 also a combined ranking, while para-climbing championships have been held alongside it since 2011. The first event took place in Frankfurt in 1991 under the UIAA with lead and speed only, and bouldering was added in 2001. The cycle was shifted to even years in 2012 and back to the year before the Olympics in 2019, when a combined event also served as an Olympic qualifier.
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Founding Year FormatMulti-Discipline Championship 1 Frequency
Frequency (category)Biennial (Every Two Years) 1 Connections
Competitors Include
Source Ao Yurikusa (Wikipedia)
Source Danyil Boldyrev (Wikipedia)
Source Evgeny Vaitcekhovsky (Wikipedia)
Source François Legrand (climber) (Wikipedia)
Source Liv Sansoz (Wikipedia)
Source Muriel Sarkany (Wikipedia)
Source Natalia Kałucka (Wikipedia)
Source Patxi Usobiaga (Wikipedia)
Source Ramón Julián Puigblanque (Wikipedia)
Source Stefan Glowacz (Wikipedia)
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1. World Climbing Championship (Wikipedia)
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the biennial world championship event for competition climbing
Lead, founding year
The first event was organized in Frankfurt in 1991.
Lead, format
determines the male and female world champions in the three disciplines of competition climbing
View the SourceLiv Sansoz (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Liv Sansoz, Climbing careerQuote, Competitors Include: Liv Sansoz, Climbing career
She has twice been the world champion and she has won the World Cup three times.
Stefan Glowacz (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Stefan Glowacz, Competition climbingQuote, Competitors Include: Stefan Glowacz, Competition climbing
1993 Vice World Champion
Ao Yurikusa (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Ao Yurikusa, Climbing career, 2023Quote, Competitors Include: Ao Yurikusa, Climbing career, 2023
In 2023, Yurikusa was a finalist at the 2023 IFSC Climbing World Championships, placing 5th in Lead.
Ramón Julián Puigblanque (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Ramón Julián Puigblanque, Lead, World ChampionshipsQuote, Competitors Include: Ramón Julián Puigblanque, Lead, World Championships
He won two World Championships, in 2007 and 2011
Patxi Usobiaga (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Patxi Usobiaga, Climbing careerQuote, Competitors Include: Patxi Usobiaga, Climbing career
In 2009 he won the Lead Climbing World Championships in Qinghai (CHN)
Natalia Kałucka (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Natalia Kałucka, Climbing careerQuote, Competitors Include: Natalia Kałucka, Climbing career
won the gold medal in the women's speed event at the 2021 World Championships
Muriel Sarkany (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Muriel Sarkany, Climbing careerQuote, Competitors Include: Muriel Sarkany, Climbing career
the gold medal in 2003
Danyil Boldyrev (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Danyil Boldyrev, LeadQuote, Competitors Include: Danyil Boldyrev, Lead
He is the IFSC World champion, multiple World and European Championships medalist
Evgeny Vaitcekhovsky (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Evgeny Vaitcekhovsky, Lead, world championshipsQuote, Competitors Include: Evgeny Vaitcekhovsky, Lead, world championships
He won the 2005 IFSC World Championships, the European Championships in 2006 and 2008 and the Rock Master in 2007.
François Legrand (climber) (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: François Legrand, LeadQuote, Competitors Include: François Legrand, Lead
three consecutive Lead Climbing World Championships (1991, 1993, 1995)
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