Sandrine Levet (born July 22, 1982) is a French professional rock climber, specializing in competition climbing and competition bouldering and competition lead climbing in particular. Levet is one of the most successful female competition climbers in history. Levet dominated competition bouldering in the early to mid-2000s, winning five IFSC Bouldering World Cups, and one IFSC Bouldering World Championship. Levet was also a strong competition lead climber, finishing second three times in the IFSC Lead Climbing World Cup, which also helped her to win the overall IFSC Combined Climbing World Cup five times. As of the end of 2022, Levet had won the second-most IFSC gold medals of any female competition climber in history.
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Nationality | French | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Haute Savoie, France | 22 July 1982|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation | Professional rock climber | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 170 cm (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 52 kg (115 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Updated on May 1, 2019. |
Biographic notes edit
Daughter of mountaineers, she started climbing when she was five years old. In the following ten years, she also practiced cross-country skiing, ski mountaineering, gymnastics and swimming.
Rankings edit
Climbing World Cup[1] edit
Discipline | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 |
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Lead | 24 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 12 | 2 | 17 | |
Bouldering | 3 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 33 | 22 | |
Combined | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Climbing World Championships[2] edit
Discipline | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007 |
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Bouldering | 2 | 1 | 16 | 8 |
Number of medals in the Climbing World Cup edit
Lead[2] edit
Season | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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2001 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
2002 | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
2003 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
2004 | 1 | 1 | ||
2005 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
2006 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
Total | 5 | 11 | 9 | 25 |
Bouldering[2] edit
Season | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1999 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
2000 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
2001 | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
2002 | 1 | 1 | ||
2003 | 5 | 5 | ||
2004 | 5 | 1 | 6 | |
2005 | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
Total | 17 | 5 | 4 | 26 |
See also edit
References edit
- ^ IFSC, ed. (July 20, 2017). "World Cup Rankings". Retrieved July 20, 2017.
- ^ a b c IFSC, ed. (July 20, 2017). "Levet's profile and rankings". Retrieved July 20, 2017.