25 December 2009

8a Climber of the decade

1. Chris Sharma USA First Ascent Pioneer 2. David Graham USA Combined 8a ranking leader for like 7 years 3. Patxi Usobiaga ESP Lead male comp climber of the decade, 8a route ranking leader 4. Yuji Hirayama JPN Competition, Sport, Boulder and Big wall 5. Josune Bereziartu ESP 9a's, comps and Bigwall 6. Dani Andrada ESP FA Legend around Lleida, Comps 7. Kilian Fischhuber AUT Best Male Comp Boulderer, routes 8. Fred Nicole SWI Boulder Pioneer 9. Tomas Mrazek CZE Continuous in both comp and rock 10. Angela Eiter AUT 11. Steve McClure GBR, 12. Tommy Caldwell USA 13. Muriel Sarkany BEL, 14. Beth Rodden USA 15. Sandrine Levet FRA 16. Ramon Puigblanque ESP, 17. Martina Cufar SLO 18. Dai Koyamada JPN 19. Toni Lamprecht 20. Natalija Gros 21. Alexandre Chabot 22. Christian Bindhammer GER, 23. Jerome Meyer FRA, 24. John Gaskins GBR 25. Iker Pou ESP 26. Fred Rouhling SWI, 27. Bernd Zangerl AUT
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