24 November 2017
Ondra and Hill are the climbing heroes of 2017
Based on polls, including 5 500+ unique votes, who are the male and female climbing heroes, here are the results. Interesting is that it is mainly outdoor climbers that did get most of the votes and no specific boulderer made it through. Originally many more name were mentioned but later they below 2 % were put into other.
33 % Adam Ondra - Lynn Hill 35 %
17 % Chris Sharma - Margo Hayes 12 %
12 % Wolfgang Gรผllich - Angela Eiter 11 %
07 % Alex Megos - Alex Puccio 10 %
06 % Alex Honnold, Dani Andrada - Janja Garnbret 10 %
05 % Tommy Caldwell - Josune Bereziartu 7 %
03 % Yuji Hirayama - Shauna Coxsey 6 %
10 % Other - Other 8 %
Here is the result of the 2015 poll:
23% Lynn Hill
10% Alex Puccio, Ashima Shiraishi
07% Anna Stรถhr, Nina Caprez, Josune Bereziartu
05% Jain Kim, Shauna Coxsey, Sasha Digulian
04% Mina Markovic, Angela Eiter, Juliane Wurm, Janja Garnbret
02% Robyn Erbesfield-Raboutou, Allizee Dufraisse, Muriel Sarkany
13 % Chris Sharma
12 % Adam Ondra
9 % Wolfgang Gรผlich
7 % Fred Nicole, Dave Graham
6 % Tommy Caldwell
5 % Nalle Hukkataival, Alex Megos, Alex Huber, Dani Andrada, Alex Honnold, Jimmy Webb
3 % Daniel Woods, Yuji Hirayama, Jan Hojer, Sean McColl
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