Everything You Need to Know | Olympic Climbing at Paris 2024

For everything you need to know about sport climbing at the Summer Olympic Games of Paris 2024, look no further than this video. 🥇

We explain the new and improved event format, highlight the main stories and athletes to watch for and look at the scoring system and event schedule. 🏆

Sport climbing made its Olympic debut in Tokyo 2020, where its three main disciplines - bouldering, lead climbing and speed climbing - were combined into one event with one medal for men and one for women. At Paris 2024, bouldering and lead climbing will be featured in a combined event and speed climbing will be its own separate event.

🔹 In the women’s combined event all eyes will be on Slovenian super star Janja Garnbret to defend her gold medal. Janja has been untouchable in competitive climbing for years now, so she’ll be tough to beat if she manages to find her usual form.

🔹 On the men’s side, it was surprising that no Japanese climbers made the podium in Tokyo 2020, so we’ll be looking at Tomoa Narasaki and Soratu Anraku to show the Olympic audience that Japan is climbing’s super star nation, while Olympic champion Alberto Gines Lopez tries to go back to back.

🔹 In speed climbing we hope to see the Olympic record fall, since this time around the selection of speed climbers is a selection of specialists.

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:28 Chapter 1: A New & Improved Olympic Format
2:01 Chapter 2: The Athletes & Scenarios
5:50 Chapter 3: The Format & Scoring System
8:08 Chapter 4: The Venue & Schedule
8:32 Comment, Like & Subscribe

[walrusclimbing]

Couple of corrections

- Oriane Bertone grew up in Réunion, not Fontainebleau. That's where she trains with the French team and where her coach lives.
- French climber Zélia Avezou also qualified for the women's combined event at Paris 2024.
- Aleksandra Miroslaw's record stands at 6.84 seconds instead of 6.97 seconds as of the date of the video.
- In the schedule overview, August 9th should say men boulder & lead final instead of semi-final.

[SCOclimbing]

As much as I would love Ondra to take gold, Jakob is probably the favorite, man was unstoppable in 2023

[lizzzychan]

Miho Nonaka all the way 💘💘💘 it’s so fun to watch her climb with such power and grace PLUS her hair and makeup always slay 💯

[elizabethangelia]

Indonesian pride here! 🇮🇩 Thanks for including our country in your video :)

[videodslrtutorial]

rooting for Ai Mori! she definitely deserve to be on the podium

[GwenMSchneider]

I hope Mori Ai does well, though she never seems to dyno, and that is a much needed skill. But Janja will win unless she becomes injured in the next month, becomes sick or just has a foot slip or something like that. The men side is totally open. Good luck to all.

[willmurrin]

My predictions for the combined format:

Men:
1st Anraku Sorato
2nd Jakob Schubert
3rd Toby Roberts

Women:
1st Janja Garnbret
2nd Ai Mori
3rd Natalia Grossman

[HaloEraser]

This is the video i needed. Clear, concise. Great work mate. Thank you.

[Klimmerick]

Appreciate the attempt to pronounce all names as authentic as possible. A nice change from the usual English native speakers who cannot and will not speak any other language.

[MrKupidus]

Nice video for people who are not yet familiar with the sport. There is a small mistake in your Olympic Climbing Schedule. On Friday August 9th is the Men Finals not the Men Semi-Finals ;)

[Liradu]

Omg thank you I am so excited. I've never watched the Olympics but I've discovered bouldering in 2019 and this year Janja Garnbret and I just need to watch it!

[Emma-frid]

Appreciation comment for the pronunciation of so many names from different languages, that was impressive

[KaylaTheDaughterOfAthena]

I'm rooting for Janja Garnbret, Brooke Raboutou and Oriane Bertone

[carlosdumbratzen]

This year is definitely interesting, because in the men's there is a big question who is gonna win in the normal combined format. There is no clear number one, because Adam Ondra is definitely over his peak, atleast in comps. And in the women's, although there is a clear number one, janja, it might definitely happen that one of the newcomers can beat her. And climbers like jessi pilz should definitely not be overlooked. So excited to finally see what climbing at the olympics should actually look like (because last time people were robbed)

[themagicalmystery]

Brooke I've watched for years so i'm definitely rooting for her! but I'd love Miho, or even Erin to swoop in and grab a medal as well!

[mducraft]

I don't understand why competitions like swiming have so many medals, and one person can win wo many medals, yet they don't want to separate climbing. It is better that they separated Speed from the other two, but lead and bouldering are also really different.

[aobasuzukaze]

As an indonesian the fact that speed climbing was added to the climbing category was huge for us and I'm hoping for at least bronze for Rita Kusuma Dewi

[ddcorlz]

I‘m rooting for Zhilu Luo, Yuetong Zhang and Janja for sure !

[nilsdula]

My predictions:
1. Janja (bold choice i know)
2. Natalia
3. Seo
Men:
1. Jakob
2. Sorato
3. Toby

[macieq]

I just started watching bouldering a few days ago - watched VoDs of Olympics Qualifiers. I'm SOOOO excited for the competition! I can't wait! :D