Sport climbing involves three formats: bouldering, speed and lead. In the first discipline, athletes are tasked with climbing a nearly 5-meter wall -- without ropes -- under a time limit with as few ...

Speed sport climbing was offered at the Olympics for the first time during the Paris Games. Good thing for Team USA, as Sam Watson beat his own speed rock climbing world record—set back in April at ...

You may have been rock climbing before, but youve never done it the way Nathaniel Coleman is doing it right now at the Momentum Indoor Climbing gym in Salt Lake City. Coleman isnt climbing so much as ...

If American Sam Watson wins the inaugural Olympic gold medal in speed climbing—the new stand-alone event in which athletes scale a 15-m wall in around five sec., or less—he’ll have some pretty sweet ...

Sport climbing kicked off at the 2024 Paris Olympics on Monday with cheering fans marking the sport's second time at the Games after a toned-down debut during the previous Games. There are three ...

World-record holder Sam Watson is set to compete in the sport climbing men's speed event on Thursday at the Paris Olympics. Watson, 18, set the world record of 4.79 seconds in April at the sport ...

The idea of speed climbing at the GoPro Mountain Games has been on the mind of USA Climbing Chief of Sport John Muse for years. But when he finally saw it come to life over the weekend, “it’s better ...

When speed climbing was added to the GoPro Mountain Games calendar of events in 2025, a North American Cup competition was slated to be the premier event, with the “NorAm,” as it’s known, representing ...