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What’s Different About Speed Climbing This Time Around?
The Olympic record for men’s speed climbing was set by Bassa Mawem in the sport’s inaugural event in 2021. That mark currently stands at 5.45 seconds. Less than three years later, Samuel Watson set the men’s speed climbing world record time of 4.798 -- a whopping 13.6% improvement on the ...
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Training for Speed Climbing: Tips from the World's Fastest Climbers
Training tips from three of the world’s best speed climbers on how to get started, get better, and get insanely good at speed climbing. It’s no coincidence that the two most dominant athletes in the history of US men’s speed climbing are both from the same youth program. Samuel Watson, the ...
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How Speed Climbing Impacted Overall Scores at the 2020 Olympics
It’s been over a year now since Sport Climbing made its Olympic debut, unveiling the highly controversial combined scoring format that gave equal weight to lead climbing, bouldering, and the relatively unknown speed climbing, and saw thousands of Ondra fans around the world crying foul (more on ...
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An Interview with John Brosler: 6x Speed Climbing National Champion
TRUBLUE is excited to announce the newest member to our team: John Brosler! Not only is John a former US men’s national Speed Climbing record holder, he’s also a six-time National Speed Open Champion, a two-time Pan-American Champion, and a member of Team USA Climbing.I recently caught up with ...
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