Female Olympic Qualifiers

1. Janja Garnbret (SLO)

Age: 22

Hometown: Šmartno pri Slovenj Gradcu

Height: 164cm

Strength: Lead climbing and Bouldering

Fastest speed climb: Villars 2021 - 9.15

2019 world rankings: Boulder 1st | Lead 2nd | Speed 48th

The one to beat in both Bouldering and Lead. Expect a few flashes in bouldering and potentially a top in lead because Janja is the most successful competition climber ever.

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2. Akiyo Noguchi (JPN)

Age: 32

Hometown: Ryugasaki-shi

Height: 167cm

Strength: Lead climbing and Bouldering

Fastest speed climb: Salt Lake City 2021 -9.12

2019 world rankings: Boulder 2nd | Lead 5th | Speed 57th

Climbing perfection, a close second to Janja in top performing athletes. Akiyo moves with such grace and fluidity that one might question if she is in fact a human or an elegant swan (we aren’t sure if swans climb well, but if they did it would look like Akiyo).

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3. Shauna Coxsey (GBR)

Age: 28

Hometown: Sheffield

Height: 164cm

Strength: Bouldering

Fastest speed climb: Hachioji 2019 - 9.14

2019 world rankings: Boulder 11th | Lead 45th | Speed 64th

A stacked line up in the womens! Another incredibly successful competition climber, Shauna Coxsey.  Shauna recently announced that this would be her final International Event as a professional climber. It will be a sad farewell to an athlete that the climbing world has got to know so well but hopefully she leaves us with one final incredible performance.

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4. Aleksandra Miroslaw (POL)

Age: 27

Hometown: Lublin

Height: 162cm

Strength: Speed climbing

Fastest speed climb: Salt Lake City 2021 - 7.20

2019 world rankings: Speed 9th 

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5. Miho Nonaka (JPN)

Age: 24

Hometown: Tokyo

Height: 163cm

Strength: Bouldering

Fastest speed climb: Salt Lake City 2021 - 8.58

2019 world rankings: Boulder 15th | Lead 19th | Speed 30th

The next generation through Japan. Miho has given her inspiration and idol, Akiyo a run for her money since hitting the world cup circuit and as Akiyo starts to age out of competition we will see Miho take that reign of Japan's strongest climber.

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6. Petra Klingler (SUI)

Age: 29

Hometown: Bonstetton

Height: 162cm

Strength: Bouldering

Fastest speed climb: Salt Lake City 2021 - 9.42

2019 world rankings: Boulder 6th | Lead 41st | Speed 56th

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7. Brooke Raboutou (USA)

Age: 20

Hometown: Boulder

Height: 158cm

Strength: Lead climbing and Bouldering

Fastest speed climb: Salt Lake City 2021 - 9.36

2019 world rankings: Boulder 55th | Lead 46th | Speed 73rd

Still quite young Brooke has really made a name for herself as a real contender. It’s no surprise however when you look at her lineage, as the offspring of 2 world champions, Robyn Erbesfield-Raboutou and Didier Raboutou. 

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8. Jessica Pilz (AUT)

Age: 24

Hometown: Haag

Height: 165cm

Strength: Lead climbing and Bouldering

Fastest speed climb: Hachioji 2019 - 9.86

2019 world rankings: Boulder 5th | Lead 10th | Speed 61st

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9. Anouk Jaubert (FRA)

Age; 27

Hometown: Grenoble

Height: 169cm

Strength: Speed climbing

Fastest speed climb: Moscow 2018 - 7.32

2019 world rankings: Boulder 69th | Speed 2nd

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10. Chaehyun Seo (KOR)

Age: 17

Hometown: Seoul

Height: 162cm

Strength: Lead climbing

Fastest speed climb: Bogor 2019 - 10.54

2019 world rankings: Lead 1st | Speed 80th

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11. Julie Chanourdie (FRA)

Age: 25

Hometown: Aviernoz

Height: 164cm

Strength: All rounder!

Fastest speed climb: Villars 2019 - 7.49

2019 world rankings: Boulder 9th | Lead 20th | Speed 47th 

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12. Mia Krampl

Age: 21

Hometown: Golnik

Height: 163cm

Strength: Lead climbing and Bouldering

Fastest speed climb: Villars 2021 - 9.43

2019 world rankings: Boulder 21st | Lead 9th 

Mia Krampl and Janja are training partners back home in Slovenia so we are sure she has some tricks up her sleeves to show us in Tokyo. A strong contender in both Lead and Boulder, let's see if she can rank highly enough in those disciplines to shoot her through to finals.

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13. Iuliia Kaplina

Age: 28

Hometown: Tyumen

Height: 165cm

Strength: Speed

Fastest speed climb: 6.96

2019 world rankings: Speed 10th

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14. Kyra Condie (USA)

Age: 25

Hometown: Shoreview

Height: 162cm

Strength: Boulder

Fastest speed climb: Villars 2021 - 8.50

2019 world rankings: Boulder 18th | Lead 28th | Speed 45th

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15. Laura Rogora (ITA)

Age: 20

Hometown: Trento

Height: 152cm

Strength: Lead climbing

Fastest speed climb: Villars 2021 - 11.11

2019 world rankings: Boulder 33rd | Lead 14th | Speed 77th

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16. Yiling Song (CHN)

Age: 20

Hometown: Beijing

Strength: Speed climbing

Height: 164cm

Fastest speed climb:   7.10

2019 world rankings: Speed 1st

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17. Alannah Yip (CAN)

Age: 27

Hometown: Vancouver

Strength: Bouldering

Height: 164cm

Fastest speed climb: Xiamen 2019 - 9.48

2019 world rankings: Boulder 12th | Lead 54th | Speed 44th

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18. Oceana Mackenzie (AUS)

Age: 19

Hometown: Melbourne

Strength: Bouldering

Height: 173cm

Fastest speed climb: Sydney 2020 - 8.45

2019 world rankings: Boulder 26th | Lead 62nd | Speed 53rd

Home girl Oceana is definitely one to watch. She hasn’t been on the circuit long as she is only 19, but has made quite the name after making a Boulder world cup final and many semi finals in 2019 before being lockdown in Australia for most of 2020.

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19. Viktoriia Meshkova (RUS)

Age: 20

Hometown:  Ekaterinburg

Height: 161cm

Strength: All rounder!

Fastest speed climb: Innsbruck 2021 - 8.63

2019 world rankings: Boulder 39th | Lead 35th | Speed 59th

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20. Erin Sterkenberg (RSA)

Age: 18

Hometown: Durban

Height: 163cm

Strength: Bouldering

Fastest speed climb: Salt Lake City 2021 - 12.04

2019 world rankings: -

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