You might have seen it in the Olympics or at your local gym: Those five-pointed red holds snaking back-and-forth up a slightly-overhanging wall, and the climbers racing up them. The timers, the ...

Aleksandra Mirosław was stood poised at the base of a 15-meter climbing wall, waiting for three pips of a buzzer to signal the start of her race. Six seconds later, she was an Olympic champion. And ...

PARIS, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Indonesia's Veddriq Leonardo won a gold medal in the men's speed climbing at the Paris Games on Thursday in a historic Olympic title for his country, while American Sam Watson ...

Learn how athletes for Team USA and other countries qualify to compete in sport climbing at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

Speed sport climbing was offered at the Olympics for the first time during the Paris Games. Good thing for Team USA, as Sam Watson beat his own speed rock climbing world record—set back in April at ...

Poland's Aleksandra Miroslaw has broken her own speed climbing world record multiple times since the last Olympics. (Usa Today Sports, USA TODAY Sports) The second iteration of Olympic sport climbing ...

You may have been rock climbing before, but you’ve never done it the way Nathaniel Coleman is doing it right now at the Momentum Indoor Climbing gym in Salt Lake City. Coleman isn’t climbing so much ...

PARIS, Aug 7 (Reuters) - When Jacky Godoffe floated the idea of setting a fixed route for competitive speed climbing to the sport's international governing body in 2004, it was laughed off as a joke.

For those who have not yet seen the sport of speed climbing, the concept is fairly simple. Imagine Spider-Man scrambling, blurry fast, up the side of a four-story building. Now picture another ...

An 18-year-old from Texas just set a new world record for speed climbing at the 2024 Paris Olympics. American athlete Sam Watson just broke his own world record on his way to the quarter-finals of the ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. For Olympic climber Brooke Raboutou, every wall is a puzzle to be solved ...