| Competition climbing at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad | |
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| Venue | Le Bourget Sport Climbing Venue |
| Dates | 5–10 August 2024 |
| No. of events | 4 |
| Competitors | 68 |
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| Sport climbing at the 2024 Summer Olympics | ||
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| Qualification | ||
| Combined | men | women |
| Speed | men | women |
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Competition climbing at the 2024 Summer Olympics is scheduled to run from 5 to 10 August at Le Bourget Sport Climbing Venue in Saint-Denis, returning to the program for the second time since the sport's official debut three years earlier in Tokyo 2020.[1] The total number of medal events will double from two in the previous edition, separating the boulder-and-lead tandem from the speed format.[2] Furthermore, Paris 2024 will witness a significant rise in the number of sport climbers competing contrary to Tokyo 2020, expanding the roster size from 40 to 68.[2][3]
The climbing competition will take place at the Le Bourget Sport Climbing Venue in Le Bourget in the Seine-Saint-Denis suburb of Paris. Along with the aquatic centre in Saint Denis, the climbing venue will serve as one of the two sports facilities to be built specifically for the Games. For the first time since its debuted in 2021, spectators will be allowed to participate.[4]
Since the inclusion of competition climbing in the Olympics for the 2020 Summer Olympics, the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) has advocated for three separate medal events: bouldering, lead, and speed; however, climbing in Tokyo 2020 was limited to a single 'combined' format for each gender.[5] The format, along with the scoring system multiplying a placement from each discipline, drew criticisms from athletes, prompting a significant overlap between the boulder-and-lead tandem and speed climbing specialists.[6]
For Paris 2024, the International Olympic Committee decided to award four medals in two separate disciplines per gender, namely, boulder-and-lead combined, and speed.[5]
Speed climbing will be a standalone event, following the current standard single-elimination competition speed climbing format with athletes climbing side-by-side up a 15-metre wall.[1]
At the 2020 Summer Olympics, points were calculated by multiplying each athlete's position in the lead, boulder, and speed, with the athlete who obtained the lowest total winning.[1] With the speed separated from the combined format for Paris 2024, the IFSC has introduced a system that computes the total score from the lead and boulder phases, with the athlete who garners the most points winning.
The proposed scoring format will be distributed as follows:[7]
This scoring format was first used (with a slightly different point distribution system)[5] in March 2022 at the Sharma Climbing test event in Barcelona, Spain,[8] before becoming internationally available to the sport climbers at two successful meets, the IFSC Climbing European ChampionshipsinMunich, Germany (August 2022)[8] and the IFSC Climbing World Cup series in Morioka, Japan (October 2022).[9]
A total of 68 quota places (28 for speed and 40 for the boulder-and-lead combined) are available for Paris 2024, an increment of seventy percent from the Tokyo 2020 roster size (40). Each NOC is entitled to enter a maximum of four climbers (two per gender) in the two separate formats.[10][11]
The qualification period commenced at the 2023 IFSC Climbing World Championships, which took place between 1 and 12 August in Bern, Switzerland. There, ten spots were awarded to the highest-ranked climbers, respecting the two-athlete NOC limit for each gender: the top three medalists for the boulder-and-lead combined, along with the champion and runner-up for the speed climbing.[12] The remainder of the total quota were awarded to the twenty eligible climbers for the boulder-and-lead combined, and ten for the speed, respectively, at each of the continental qualification tournaments (Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania) over a three-month-long period (September to December 2023). Further qualification opportunities will be at a triad of Olympic Qualifier Series events held between March and June 2024.[13]
As the host country, France reserves a single spot for each gender in each discipline if they don't otherwise qualify an athlete. Four more quota places (two per gender) are entitled to the NOCs competing in each category under the Universality rule.[14][15]
| B | Boulder semifinal | L | Lead semifinal | Q | Qualification | F | Final |
| Event ↓ / Date → | Mon 5 Aug 24 | Tue 6 Aug 24 | Wed 7 Aug 24 | Thu 8 Aug 24 | Fri 9 Aug 24 | Sat 10 Aug 24 |
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| Men's combined | B | L | F | |||
| Men's speed | Q | F | ||||
| Women's combined | B | L | F | |||
| Women's speed | Q | F |
* Host nation (France)
| Rank | NOC | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| Totals (0 entries) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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