Salt Lake City, UT – January 9, 2024 – It’s finally 2024, which means it’s an Olympic year! The Paris 2024 Olympic Games will be the second to feature Sport Climbing, now with medals on the line for Speed and combined Boulder & Lead. The stakes have never been higher for competitive climbers, and six US athletes have already claimed
Olympic quotas. Here are the athletes that have punched their tickets to Paris:
Emma Hunt (Female, Speed) | Emma earned her spot with a second-place finish at the IFSC World Championships Bern 2023.
Colin Duffy (Male, Boulder & Lead) | Colin earned his spot with a second-place finish at the IFSC World Championships Bern 2023. Colin is the first two-time Sport Climbing Olympian, having competed at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Piper Kelly (Female, Speed) | Piper earned her spot with a first-place finish at the Pan American Games 2023. Sam Watson (Male, Speed) | Sam Watson earned his spot with a first-place finish at the Pan American Games
2023.
Jesse Grupper (Male, Boulder & Lead) | Jesse earned his spot with a first-place finish at the Pan American Games 2023.
Natalia Grossman (Female, Boulder & Lead) | Natalia earned her spot with a first-place finish at the Pan American Games 2023.
What’s next? Two more tickets are on the line for Sport Climbing athletes in the US, one for male competitors in the Speed discipline and one for female competitors in the Boulder & Lead discipline. Athletes who have not yet qualified for Paris will have their last opportunity at this year’s Olympic Qualifier Series (OQS), a brand-new event series that will offer Olympic quotas for Sport Climbing, BMX Freestyle, Breaking, and Skateboarding athletes. This two-part series will be hosted in Shanghai from May 16-19, 2024, and in Budapest from June 20-23, 2024.
For Sport Climbing specifically, the series will award quotas to the top 10 Boulder & Speed athletes per gender and the top 5 Speed athletes per gender, based on the sum of points from the Shanghai and Budapest events. Seven US athletes, based on their world rankings, are qualified for the OQS and will be vying for an Olympic quota: Noah Bratschi (Male, Speed), John Brosler (Male, Speed), Kyra Condie (Female, Boulder & Lead), Kylie Cullen (Female, Boulder & Lead), Zach Hammer (Male, Speed), Brooke Raboutou (Female, Boulder & Lead), and Annie Sanders (Female, Boulder & Lead). Follow along here for future streaming info and competition updates.
About USA Climbing: USA Climbing is the national governing body for competitive climbing in the United States, supporting athletes, coaches, and events across the country. As a nonprofit organization, USA Climbing’s mission is to promote the growth and development of climbing while advocating for the sport’s values of inclusivity, sportsmanship, and environmental responsibility.
For more information contact:
Patrick Bodnar | Marketing & Communications Director | patrick@usaclimbing.org
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