Climbers will be ranked by their overall scores. For more details on how the competition will work, check out NBC Olympics' article on the Olympic competition format for sport climbing.

Sport climbing is making its Olympic debut in Tokyo ... so the same route is followed across competitions. The men's world record is 5.208 seconds and the women's is 6.96 seconds.

Because 100 points each are available in bouldering and lead, 200 points is the maximum combined score that an athlete can have. Climbers will be ranked by their overall scores. For more details on ...

The Paris Games will see an increase in the number of sport climbing athletes participating in comparison to the Tokyo Games, from 40 athletes in Tokyo to 68 in Paris. Key Dates The competition ...

and the final scores were combined from across the three competitions. The climber with the lowest score took home the first-ever gold medal awarded in the history of sport climbing at the Olympics.

The sport climbing competition first made its Olympics debut at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo as one of the proposed additional sports to make the shortlist alongside a few others. It is once ...

Seo Chaehyun of South Korea competes in the women's boulder and lead semifinal, during the sport climbing competition at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024, in Le Bourget ...

3 Department of Trauma Surgery, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Sport climbing will debut at the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo.1 2 Competitive ...

But the man-made objects humbled some of the world’s best as the sport climbing competition began Monday. “It was a difficult round,’’ American Colin Duffy said. “A lot of, like ...

When sport climbing made its debut in the Tokyo Games ... are being awarded for the men and women — one for the combined competition of bouldering and lead, and the second for the speed alone.