6 January 2019

Sport climber of 2018 - Draft

We give more credit to the ones doing many ascents in different disciplines as well as FAs. Please comment to update the list. Junior and 40+ lists are coming up. 1. Adam Ondra CZE 2. Jakob Schubert AUT 3. Janja Garnbret SLO 4. Jessica Pilz AUT 5. Alex Megos GER 6. Jernej Kruder SLO 7. Stefano Ghisolfi ITA 8. Miho Nonaka JPN 9. Daniel Woods USA 10. Alex Puccio USA 11. Akiyo Noguchi JPN 12. Isabelle Faus USA 13. Tomoa Narasaki JPN 14. Barbara Zangerl CHE 15. Jan Hojer GER 16. Mikaela Kirsch USA 17. David Firnenburg GER 18. Ashima Shiraishi USA 19. Piotr Schaab POL 20. Jakub Konečný 21. Martin Stranik 22. Giuliano Cameroni 23. Christof Rauch 24. Oriane Bertone 25. Jonathan Siegrist 26. Katherine Choong CHE 27. Karoline Sinnhuber 28. Margo Hayes 29. Paul Robinson 30. Charles Alber, Nomura Shinichiro, James Webb, Shawn Raboutou, David Graham, Angy Eiter, Nalle Hukkataival, Sebastian Bouin, Keenan Takahashi, Stasa Gejo, Stefano Carnati, Jain Kim, Domen Skofic, Moritz Welt, Jorge Diaz-Rullo, Romain Desgranges, Rei Sugimoto, Aleksei Rubtsov, Sol Sa, Kai Harada, Moritz Perwitzschky, William Bosi, Dani Andrada, Chris Sharma, Klemen Becan, Mei Kotake, Petra Klingler, Allizee Dufraisse, Jongwon Chon, Gregor Vezonik, Gabri Moroni, Melissa le Neve, Paige Claasen, Edu Marin, Mathieu Bouyoud, Vadim Timonov, Philipp Gaßner, Maria Davies Sandbu, Molly Thompson Smith, Loic Zehani
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