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World Climbing Championship, formerly known as the IFSC Climbing World Championships, is the biennial world championship event for competition climbing that is organized by the World Climbing. This event determines the male and female world champions in the three disciplines of competition climbing: competition lead climbing, competition bouldering, and competition speed climbing. Since 2012, a combined ranking is also determined, for climbers competing in all disciplines, and additional medals are awarded based on that ranking.[1][2][3][4] The first event was organized in Frankfurt in 1991.
History
Creation and organizers
In 1991, the Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme (UIAA) organized the competition climbing championships. The International Council for Competition Climbing (ICC) was created in 1997 as an internal body of the UIAA to take charge of competition climbing.[5]
In 2007, the independent IFSC was created as a continuation of the ICC to govern competition climbing.
In 2025, the event was renamed World Climbing Championship, following IFSC's renaming to World Climbing.
Events
The present format has four disciplines: lead, speed, bouldering, and combined.
The first championships had two events: lead and speed. Bouldering was added in 2001.
In 2012, 2014 and 2016, a combined ranking (sometimes also called overall ranking) was computed for climbers participating in all of the three events.[1][2][3] In 2018, a specific combined event was included which the six climbers with highest overall ranking[6][7] were invited to enter. The combined event requires athletes to compete in all three disciplines, and they receive a single combined score based on all three results. Scores achieved in single-discipline events are not relevant to the combined score, and there are no awards for any one part of the combined event. The 2018 combined event tested the new Olympic Games format, which was used at the first appearance of climbing at the Olympics in 2020. In 2019 the Combined competition was held again with the best eight men's and women's athletes receiving invitations to the 2020 Olympics.
In 2011, the IFSC Paraclimbing World Championships were established. The event is usually held alongside the open class competition. Para athletes compete in lead only, except for 2011 when a speed climbing competition was held as well.
Years
The World Championships are held every two years. Twice, the cycle has been moved to the other year and in those cases this was done by holding the next championship one year earlier. In 2012 the World Championships were shifted to even years to avoid interference with the 2013 World Games climbing event and to give a supplementary opportunity to demonstrate the sport for a possible integration into the 2020 Olympic Games. In 2019 the World Championships were again held one year early, to now allow the Championships to be the year before each Olympics to operate as a qualifier event.[citation needed]
Championships
| Edition | Year | Location | Date(s) | Disciplines | Athletes | Nations | Website | Notes | |||||
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| Event | L | S | B | C | Para | ||||||||
| 1 | 1991 | Frankfurt | 1–2 October | 2 | X | X | - | - | - | 110 | 22 | [8] | |
| 2 | 1993 | Innsbruck | 29–30 April | 2 | X | X | - | - | - | 127 | 23 | [9] | |
| 3 | 1995 | Geneva | 5–6 May | 2 | X | X | - | - | - | 135 | 24 | [10] | |
| 4 | 1997 | Paris | 31 January–1 February | 2 | X | X | - | - | - | 153 | 26 | [11] | |
| 5 | 1999 | Birmingham | 2–3 December | 2 | X | X | - | - | - | 180 | 30 | [12] | |
| 6 | 2001 | Winterthur | 5–8 September | 3 | X | X | X | - | - | 198 | 25 | [13] | |
| 7 | 2003 | Chamonix | 9–13 July | 3 | X | X | X | - | - | 241 | 34 | [14] | |
| 8 | 2005 | Munich | 1–5 July | 3 | X | X | X | - | - | 318 | 51 | [15] | |
| 9 | 2007 | Avilés | 17–23 September | 3 | X | X | X | - | - | 302 | 50 | [16] | |
| 10 | 2009 | Xining | 30 June – 5 July | 4 | X | X | X | - | - | 219 | 44 | [17] | |
| 11 | 2011 | Arco | 15–24 July | 4 | X | X | X | - | X | 374 | 56 | [18] | |
| 12 | 2012 | Paris | 12–16 September | 5 | X | X | X | X | X | 331 | 56 | [19][1] | |
| 13 | 2014 | Munich | 21–23 August | 1 | - | - | X | - | - | 509 | 52 | [20][2] | |
| Gijón | 8–14 September | 4 | X | X | - | X | X | ||||||
| 14 | 2016 | Paris | 14–18 September | 5 | X | X | X | X | X | 533 | 53 | [1] | [21][3][22] |
| 15 | 2018 | Innsbruck | 6–16 September | 5 | X | X | X | X | X | 834 | 58 | [23][4] | |
| 16 | 2019 | Briançon | 16–17 July | 1 | - | - | - | - | X | ||||
| Hachioji | 11–21 August | 4 | X | X | X | X | - | 253 | 39 | [24][25] | |||
| 17 | 2021 | Moscow | 15–21 September | 5 | X | X | X | X | X | [26] | |||
| 18 | 2023 | Bern | 1–12 August | 5 | X | X | X | X | X | ||||
| 19 | 2025 | Seoul[27] | 21-28 September | 4 | X | X | X | X | |||||
| 20 | 2027 | Brno[28] | 5 | X | X | X | X | X | |||||
Medals
As of 2025 IFSC Climbing World Championships (excluding paraclimbing medals)
Note 1: share medals in 2007 IFSC Climbing World Championships
Note 2: one silver medal in 2021 IFSC Climbing World Championships for Climbing Federation of Russia
Men's results
Lead
Speed
Bouldering
Combined
Women's Results
Lead
Speed
Bouldering
Combined
See also
- World Climbing Series
- IFSC Paraclimbing World Championships
- IFSC Climbing World Youth Championships
- World Climbing European Championships
- IFSC Climbing Asian Championships
- List of best IFSC results
- UIAA Ice Climbing World Championships
References
- ^ "IFSC Climbing World Championship 2012 – Overall rankings". [email protected]. Archived 17 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
- ^ "IFSC Climbing World Championship 2014 – Combined rankings". IFSC. Archived from the original on 18 September 2018. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
- ^ "IFSC Climbing World Championship 2016 – Overall rankings". IFSC. Archived 6 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
- ^ "IFSC Climbing World Championship 2018 – Combined results". IFSC. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
- ^ "Climbing Competitions' History". ifsc-climbing.org. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
- ^ "2018 World Championships – Combined general result – Men". IFSC. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
- ^ "2018 World Championships – Combined general result – Women". IFSC. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
- ^ "UIAA World Championship – Frankfurt 1991". ifsc-climbing.org. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
- ^ "UIAA World Championship – Innsbruck 1993". ifsc-climbing.org. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
- ^ "UIAA World Championship – Genève 1995". ifsc-climbing.org. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
- ^ "UIAA World Championship – Paris 1997". ifsc-climbing.org. Archived from the original on 27 September 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
- ^ "UIAA World Championship – Birmingham (GBR) 1999". ifsc-climbing.org. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
- ^ "UIAA World Championship – Winterthur (SUI) 2001". ifsc-climbing.org. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
- ^ "UIAA Worldchampionship – Chamonix (FRA) 2003". ifsc-climbing.org. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
- ^ "UIAA World Championship – Munich (GER) 2005". ifsc-climbing.org. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
- ^ "IFSC Climbing World Championship (L + B + S) – Aviles (ESP) 2007". ifsc-climbing.org. Archived from the original on 27 September 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
- ^ "IFSC Climbing World Championships – Qinghai (CHN) 2009". ifsc-climbing.org. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
- ^ "IFSC Climbing World Championships – Arco (ITA) 2011". ifsc-climbing.org. Archived from the original on 1 June 2015. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
- ^ "IFSC Climbing World Championship – Paris (FRA) 2012". ifsc-climbing.org. Archived from the original on 5 March 2014. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
- ^ "World Championships"
- ^ "IFSC Climbing World Championship 2016". IFSC. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
- ^ "IFSC Climbing World Championship 2016 – Overall rankings". [email protected]. Archived 19 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
- ^ "IFSC Climbing World Championship 2018". IFSC. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
- ^ "IFSC Climbing World Championships – Hachioji (JPN) 2019". ifsc-climbing.org. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
- ^ "IFSC Climbing World Championships Combined – Hachioji (JPN) 2019". ifsc-climbing.org. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
- ^ "IFSC Plenary Assembly 2019 – A full recap". IFSC. 16 March 2019. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
- ^ "2025 Climbing World Championships to be held in Seoul". IFSC. 1 April 2023. Retrieved 18 June 2025.
- ^ "2027 World Championships to be held in Brno, Czechia". IFSC. 11 April 2025. Archived from the original on 19 August 2013. Retrieved 18 June 2025.
- ^ "IFSC Climbing World Championships – Qinghai (CHN) 2009 – 15 m Speed"
External links
- "Calendar of IFSC competitions". www.ifsc-climbing.org
- "IFSC Rules". www.ifsc-climbing.org