24 December 2019
Sport climber of the 21st century - Draft
8a.nu begun reporting climbing news in December 1999. Here is a draft that has been making the most impressive and continues headlines in the last 20 years.
1. Adam Ondra
2. Angela Eiter
3. Chris Sharma
4. Dave Graham
5. Ramonet Puigblanque
6. Barbara Zangerl
7. Dai Koyamada
8. Daniel Woods
9. Akiyo Noguchi
10. Alex Puccio, Jakob Schubert, Anna Stรถhr, Sean McColl, Edu Marin, Jorg Verhoeven, Muriel Sarkany, Dani Andrada, Patxi Usobiaga, Gabri Moroni, Stefano Ghisolfi, Fred Nicole, Yuji Hirayama, Kilian Fischhuber, Iker Pou, Nalle Hukkataival, Jain Kim, Sandrine Levet, Charlotte Durif, Romain Desgranges, Guillaume Mondet, Dmitrii Sharafutdinov, Mina Markovic, Janja Garnbret, Toni Lamprecht, James Webb, Sebastien Bouin, Sasha Digiulian, Jernej Kruder, Martin Stranik, Alizee Dufraisse, Anak Verhoeven,
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