24 September 2021

Grossman the best comp climber of 2021

Here is a draft of who have been the best competition climbers in 2021. It should of course be mentioned that it is totally impossible to make an objective ranking combining all events especially when most have only done half of the competitions. The list is just my personal subjective opinion. Please feel free to comment in order to change the list.

1. Natalia Grossman USA
2. Janja Garnbret SLO
3. Jakob Schubert AUT
4. Tomoa Narasaki JPN
5. Brooke Raboutou USA
6. Alberto Gines Lopez ESP
7. Kokoro Fujii JPN
8. Miho Nonaka JPN
9. Laura Rogora ITA
10. Nathaniel Coleman USA

11. Chaehyun Seo KOR
12. Adam Ondra CZE
13. Yoshiyuki Ogata JPN
14. Sean Bailey USA
15. Akiyo Noguchi JPN
16. Alexey Rubtsov RUS
17. Jessica Pilz AUT
18. Alex Megos GER
19. Michael Mawem FRA
20. Vita Lukan SLO
21. Colin Duffy USA
22. Viktoriia Meshkova RUS
23. Martin Stranik CZE
24. Jan Hojer GER
25. Oriane Bertone FRA
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