Toby Roberts wins the Olympic gold

Sorato Anraku was last out in the Lead final with Toby Roberts sitting in the gold chair. The 17-year-old hesitated a bit also in the 360-rotating campus move facing the spectators. Fighting his way up securing first the bronze and then the silver, he fell three moves below what was needed.

The camera focuses Toby who does not understand what has happened but as his team, including his father, is screaming and jumping he realizes he got the Olympic gold. All the 7,000 spectators were cheering for him and the event was yet another success for competition climbing and IFSC. Noteworthy is also that Adam Ondra was tied for #1 in Lead, together with Jakob Schubert, in possibly his last international competition ever. Schubert got the bronze overall as he also did in Tokyo.