Leslie Adriana Romero Pérez (born 18 March 1998)[1][2][3] is a Venezuelan-born Spanish competition climber who specializes in competition speed climbing. She was a finalist for the 2024 Spanish Olympic team in the speed climbing event.
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Leslie Adriana Romero Pérez |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Born | March 18, 1993 San Juan de los Morros, Venezuela |
| Years active | 2022–present |
| Height | 160 cm (5 ft 3 in) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Sport climbing |
| Event | Speed |
| Coached by | David Macià |
Early life
editRomero was born in 1998 in San Juan de los Morros, Venezuela,[2][4] with a Venezuelan mother and Spanish father from Málaga,[4] giving her dual citizenship.[5] After many years in Venezuela, she and her family moved to Mutxamel in Spain in 2019. Romero herself lives and trains in Sant Cugat del Vallès, near Barcelona.[4]
As a child, she climbed her parents' fruit trees to reach the fruit. She began sport climbing at age six when her parents took her to a gym, and allowed her to try climbing after discovering that the gymnastics club they were intending for her had moved.[4]
Competition results
editClimbing for Venezuela, Romero won first place for Youth B speed climbing in the 2012 IFSC Climbing World Youth Championships in Singapore, and first place for Youth A in the 2014 PanAmerican Youth Championship in Mexico City.[2] After moving to Spain, Romero's best international results include first place at the 2022 International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) European Continental Cup in Innsbruck, Austria, in June 2022, first place at the IFSC European Cup in Innsbruck in May 2023, first place at the IFSC European Cup in Žilina, Slovakia in July 2023, and first place at the IFSC European Cup in Innsbruck in June 2024.[6]
She finished in 12th and 11th place at the Olympic Qualifier Series events in Shanghai and Budapest, respectively, and qualified for the Olympics in reallocation, after France took their allocated slot by placing higher in the competition.[5] At the Olympics, Romero won her heat against Rajiah Sallsabillah in the elimination round of qualifications after Sallsabillah fell. Sallsabillah, the eventual fourth-place finisher, also continued into the finals as the heat loser with the fastest qualification time.[7] Romero ended up in eighth place after losing in the quarterfinals to Aleksandra Mirosław, the world record holder and eventual gold medalist.[8]
Her personal best time is 6.86, earned in July 2024 at an IFSC World Cup in Chamonix, France.[9]
Major results
editOlympic Games
edit| Discipline | 2024 |
|---|---|
| Speed | 8 |
World championships
edit| Discipline | 2023 |
|---|---|
| Speed | 7 |
World Cup
edit| Discipline | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speed | 48 | 23 | 12 |
References
edit- ^ https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/athlete/leslie-adriana-romero-perez_1963918
- ^ a b c "Leslie Romero", Digital Rock, retrieved 2024-08-11
- ^ "Leslie Adriana Romero Pérez", Athletes, International Olympic Committee, retrieved 2024-08-11
- ^ a b c d Sánchez, Javier (23 February 2024), "Leslie Romero o los mil trabajos para seguir siendo escaladora: "Con las criptomonedas pude salir adelante"", El Mundo (in Spanish), retrieved 2024-08-11
- ^ a b "Olympics 2024: Leslie Adriana Romero Pérez", UK Climbing, retrieved 2024-08-11
- ^ "Leslie Adriana Romero Pérez", Athlete profiles, International Federation of Sport Climbing, retrieved 2024-08-11
- ^ "Leslie Romero accede a cuartos de final y sueña a lo grande", La Vanguardia (in Spanish), 5 August 2024, retrieved 2024-08-11
- ^ "Leslie Romero: "Estar en la final es un sueño que no me podía imaginar nunca"", Notimérica (in Spanish), 7 August 2024, retrieved 2024-08-11
- ^ Fernández, Isaac (5 August 2024), "Leslie Romero se mete en la final olímpica de velocidad", Desnivel (in Spanish), retrieved 2024-08-11
