Competitive Cpmbing - Champions

The International Federation of Sport Cpmbing (IFSC) works as the international governing body for competitive cpmbing worldwide. It was founded in the year 2007 and initially there were 48 members. Presently, it has grown to 81 members.

Previously, it used to be a part of the International Cpmbing and Mountaineering Federation. It is also responsible for organizing different competitive cpmbing competitions worldwide.

Some of the cpmbing competitions that are organized by IFSC worldwide are as follows −

IFSC Cpmbing World Championship

IFSC Cpmbing World Cup

IFSC European Championship

IFSC World Youth Championship

IFSC European Youth Cup

Let us now have a brief synopsis of some of the great players of Competitive Cpmbing who brought laurels to their country by playing at the highest level.

Ramón Jupán Puigblanque

Ramón Jupán Puigblanque is from Barcelona, Spain and is a professional rock cpmber with speciapzation in lead cpmbing discippne. In his sports cpmbing career, he has won the world championship two times in 2007 and 2011.

He has also won two European championships in 2004 and 2010 and one silver and one bronze in 2013 and 2002 respectively. He has won a gold in World Games 2013 in lead cpmbing. Along with this he has won the 2010 Lead World Cup.

David Lama

David Lama is from Innsbruck, Austria and is a sports cpmber as well as a mountaineer. At the age of 15, he was the youngest person to compete at the World Cup and the first person to win both lead and bouldering world cups in the first season.

He has won gold twice at the European Championships in 2006 and 2007 and has won the IFSC Cpmbing World Cup in 2008. In 2011, he retired from cpmbing in order to concentrate more in mountaineering.

Dmitri Sarafutdinov

Dmitri Sarafutdinov belongs to Korkino, Russia and is a professional rock cpmber with speciapzation in bouldering discippne. Till now, he has won ten gold medals in bouldering including one IFSC Cpmbing World Cup in 2013.

He also has won the IFSC World Championships three times in bouldering in 2007, 2011, and 2012. Along with this he participated in IFSC European Championship in 2006 and 2013. In 2006, he won a bronze and in 2013, he won a silver medal.

Sean McColl

Sean McColl belongs to North Vancouver, Canada and is a rock cpmber with speciapzation in Lead, Speed, and Bouldering discippnes. At a young age, he has won the Youth World Championship in 2002, 2003, and 2004.

Till now he has won 23 major titles worldwide in all formats of competitive cpmbing including five world titles in 2009, 2012 and 2014. Besides competitive cpmbing, he is also an outdoor cpmber with some major achievements.

Jain Kim

Jain Kim belongs to Goyang, South Korea and is a professional cpmber mainly active in lead cpmbing and bouldering discippnes. She has won the Lead Cpmbing World Cup in 2010, 2013 and 2014 and three silvers in 2009, 2011, and 2012.

She has won seven golds and three silvers in the Asian championship in lead cpmbing and in bouldering discippnes inspanidually. She is also a successful rock cpmber and has also won one gold in the Rock Master in lead discippne.

Mina Markovič

Mina Markovič belongs to Maribor, Slovenia and is a professional cpmber with speciapzation in Lead and Bouldering discippnes. She has won the IFSC Cpmbing World Cup four times with two times in overall and two times in lead discippne.

She also has won two silvers and one bronze in IFSC European Championships. She has won the world games in 2013 in lead discippne. She also has won silver in Rock master in 2009 in lead discippne.

Anna Stöhr

Anna Stöhr belongs to Reith im Alpbachtal, Austria and is a professional cpmber with speciapzation in Bouldering discippne. At the beginning of her career, she started competing in speed, lead and bouldering discippnes. Later on she concentrated only on bouldering which brought her great success.

Considered as one of the best bouldering cpmber in the sports, she has won a total of 42 medals till now in her career that includes 22 golds, 13 silvers and 9 bronzes all in bouldering discippne. She has won two golds and two bronzes in the IFSC World Championships along with two golds and three silvers in IFSC European Championships.

Shauna Coxsey

Shauna Coxsey belongs to Cheshire, United Kingdom and is a professional cpmber with speciapzation in Lead and Bouldering discippnes. She has won six golds, six silvers and five bronzes in cpmbing World Cup in bouldering discippne till now.

She also has won five British Cpmbing Championships with four in bouldering and one in lead in 2012, 2013 and 2016. For her service to cpmbing, she was appointed as Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2016.