Can tall climbers reach highest level?

Sharma, Ondra, and Jimmy Webb are all roughly 6 ft tall (180-183 cm), Jan Hojer is 6 "2" (187 cm) these four climbers are arguably, four of the top 10 men's sport climbers in the world. So the answer is yes. Jorg Verhoeven is 182 cm and he is a world class climber too

Why are short climbers usually keen on "proving" that being small (and 1.70 m IS small for a man, on average) is, in fact, not beneficial for climbing? It is fact, just look at the statistics here and elsewhere. For climbing, I'd be happy to be short, and short folks could be just happy and content they found a sport that favors they're morphology! Exceptions like Sharma and Ondra don't falsify this because every relation in nature has a certain spread. Alex G's argument that it's in fact weight, and not height, is just not correct. Ample evidence was given here to explain why. Why pull out an ad-hoc hypothesis, Alex? Btw, I can already give an additional hint as to how Adam Ondra can climb so well despite his 1.85 m (?) height: He has a super low ape index! Yes, you heard right, I'm saying that a low ape index is favorable for climbing! (because of the better lever). But that actually only holds true for tall climbers because if you're short AND have a low ape index, that's when you really get into trouble with reach and it should be detrimental for climbing performance. Then again, look at teenage star climbers, they don't have any reach whatsoever (well, kinda). So what's the deal there? My bet is on their tiny hands: The smaller the hands, the larger the holds are, relatively speaking. E.g. I have pretty big hands and what's a good edge for me, is a jug for one of those prodigies (or any kid, for that matter). And this argument goes, to a lesser extent, for adult, short climbers as well, because hand size correlates with height, too.