The road to American sport climbing at the Paris Olympics was paved through Boulder.
Colin Duffy of the US competes during the semi-final of the Men’s Boulder competition for the IFSC Climbing World Cup in Innsbruck, on June 16, 2023. / Austria OUT for lead and bouldering — Colin Duffy, Brooke Raboutou and Natalia Grossman — spent their youth at ABC Kids Climbing in Boulder. There, the trio padded the city’s reputation as one of America’s premier climbing hotspots. And soon they could further reinforce it by bringing home gold.
Duffy, 20, was the youngest U.S. climber at the Tokyo Games in 2021 when the sport made its Olympic debut. He finished seventh there, while Raboutou placed fifth. Grossman didn’t qualify for Tokyo but earned her spot in Paris by beating out fellow 23-year-old Raboutou for the gold medalBoth Duffy and Raboutou also claimed gold in the time since Tokyo, with the former earning first in bouldering and lead climbing at the 2022 IFSC Climbing World Cup.
The trio’s accomplishments over the last few years have built on the greatness of Boulder climbing legends before them., Shawn Raboutou and Paul Robinson , as well as renowned women like “The competitions that started in the mid-to-late 1980s and the organizations that put them on, that was a big deal, and that helped generate a lot of new, young climbers, and started to grow the interest in the sport,” Bensman said. “The climbing gym scene was really strong in Colorado in the early days of that, and of course, there was access to all the great outdoor climbing that’s here as well. That’s what made the state a mecca.
USA’s Natalia Grossman competes in the lead stage during the sport climbing women’s boulder & lead final of the Pan American Games Santiago 2023, at the Cerrillos Park Climbing Walls in Santiago on Oct. 24, 2023. is embedded within the other hub of U.S. climbing.
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