14 February 2018

Top-5 Male + Female comp climbers in the history

Here is the 8a Top-5 male + female competition climbers in the history. It is based on the number of points achieved, number of WC wins, number of World Championships as well as podiums. The ranking can not be calculated as there has been different of number of World Cups and World Championships. Further more the first Lead World Cup was 1989 and the first Boulder in 1999. The list does also reflect who has been dominating over the years. 1. Jain Kim - Ramon Julian Puigblanque 2. Angela Eiter - Kilian Fischhuber 3. Muriel Sarkany - Jakob Schubert 4. Mina Markovic - Adam Ondra 5. Akiyo Noguchi - Francois Legrand Others that can be mentioned having made a strong mark on the historical competition scene are; Sandrine Levet, Anna Stöhr, Robyn Erbesfield, Liv Sansoz, Maja Vidmar, Dimitri Sharafutdinov, Sean McColl, Jorg Verhoeven, Jerome Meyer, Tomas Mrazek, and Alex Chabot.
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