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Alberto Ginés

Alberto Ginés López[a] (born 23 October 2002) is a Spanish professional rock climber, specializing in competition lead climbing and competition bouldering. He won gold at the first Olympic sport climbing event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in August 2021. He placed second in the 2019 Lead Climbing World Cup[1] and won a silver medal at the 2019 Lead Climbing European Championship.[2]

Alberto Ginés
Personal information
Full nameAlberto Ginés López
Born (2002-10-23) 23 October 2002 (age 22)
Cáceres, Cáceres, Spain
OccupationProfessional rock climber
Height169 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight58 kg (128 lb)
Climbing career
Type of climberCompetition climbing
Known forWinning the first Olympic gold in Sport climbing Combined, Men's Division, in Tokyo, 2021
Medal record
Men's competition climbing
Representing  Spain
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo Combined
World Cup
Second place 2019 Lead
European Championships
Silver medal – second place 2019 Edinburgh Lead
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Munich Lead
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Munich Combined
Updated on 5 August 2021

Biography

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Ginés started climbing with his parents when he was very young. In 2013, Ginés, who was 10 years old at the time, met professional climbing coach David Macià in Rodellar, after his father introduced the child to him. Macià was surprised by the attitude with which Ginés climbed the sport climbing route, El Delfín 7c+ (5.13a), and became his coach.

In 2016, after the announcement that competition climbing would become an Olympic sport at 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, he moved from Cáceres to Barcelona to train, with the goal of qualifying for the international event.[3]

In August 2017, Ginés took a silver medal at the Lead Climbing Youth World Championships, in the category Youth B. A month later, he won the Lead Climbing European Youth Championship in the same category. In May 2018, Ginés won the Lead Climbing European Youth Championship, in the category Youth A. In August 2019, he took bronze medals at the Lead Climbing and Combined Climbing Youth World Championships, in the category Youth A. A month later, Ginés also won a bronze at the Lead Climbing European Youth Championships, in the same category.

On 6 October 2019, Ginés won a silver medal at the Lead Climbing European Championships.[2] Later that month, he finished second in the Lead Climbing World Cup,[1] winning medals in two of its six events: a bronze in Kranj and a silver in the last event,[2] held in Inzai. In November, Ginés qualified to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. He won gold in the men's combined event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Rankings

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Climbing World Cup

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Discipline 2019
Lead 2

[1]

Climbing European Championships

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Discipline 2019
Lead 2

[2]

Number of medals in the Climbing European Youth Cup

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Lead

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Season Category Gold Silver Bronze Total
2017 Youth B 2 1 1 4
2018 Youth A 1 1 2
2019 Youth A 2 1 3
Total 5 1 3 9

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Bouldering

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Season Category Gold Silver Bronze Total
2017 Youth B 2 2
2018 Youth A 1 1 2
2019 Youth A 1 1 2
Total 4 2 0 6

[2]

Number of medals in the Climbing World Cup

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Lead

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Season Gold Silver Bronze Total
2019 1 1 2
2023 1 1
Total 0 1 2 3

[2]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Ginés and the second or maternal family name is López.

References

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  1. ^ a b c "World Cup Rankings". IFSC. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Ginés' profile and rankings". IFSC. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
  3. ^ "Alberto Ginés, en el olimpo". El Periódico (in Spanish). 10 February 2020. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
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