2024 Is a Huge Year for Comp Climbing – Here’s the Schedule

The 2024 IFSC Climbing World Cup begins early next week with two back-to-back stops in China. These events not only kick off the World Cup series, but also what is sure to be a blockbuster year of international-level competitions. On top the World Cup, 2024 sees many of the best climbers in the world facing off in the Olympic Qualifier Series this spring and the Paris Olympics this summer.

The World Cup circuit in 2024 will have nine stops: two each in China and France, and one each in the United States, Austria, Slovenia, Czechia, and South Korea. Across these nine World Cups, there will be five Boulder events, six Lead events, and five Speed events. The series starts in Keqiao and Wujiang China in April before moving to Salt Lake City in May. It then goes on a tour of European cities in June, July, and September – Innsbruck, Chamonix, Briançon, Koper, and Prague. The final World Cup will be held in early October in Seoul, South Korea.

Three Paraclimbing World Cups will also be held in 2024: Salt Lake City on May 7–8, Innsbruck on June 24–25, and Arco on September 27–28. The full World Cup schedule for 2024 is listed below.

List of IFSC World Cups in 2024

• Keqiao, China (Boulder) April 8–10
• Wujiang, China (Lead, Speed) April 11–14
• Salt Lake City, USA (Boulder, Speed) May 3–5
• Innsbruck, Austria (Boulder, Lead) June 25–30
• Chamonix, France (Lead, Speed) July 11–14
• Briançon, France (Lead, Speed) July 16–19
• Koper, Slovenia (Lead) September 5–7
• Prague, Czechia (Boulder) September 19–22
• Seoul, South Korea (All Disciplines) October 2–6

Paris Olympics

The World Cup tour will be interrupted by two other major competitions in 2024: the Olympic Qualifier Series in May and June and the Paris Olympics, which runs from July 25 to August 11. Unlike in Tokyo, the sport of climbing is going to be split into two different disciplines at this year’s Olympics – Boulder & Lead Combined and Speed. In total, twenty men and twenty women will compete in the Boulder & Lead Combined event. Fourteen men and fourteen women will face off in Speed.

So far, eight athletes of each gender have qualified for their chance to compete in the Boulder & Lead event. These qualifying spots were granted through the 2023 World Champions in Bern, the 2023 Pan American Games, and a series of continental Olympic qualifying competitions held around the world in late 2023. Below is a list of climbers who have already earned their ticket to Paris in Boulder & Lead Combined:

Olympic Competitors – Women

• Janja Garnbret (SLO)
• Jessica Pilz (AUT)
• Ai Mori (JPN)
• Natalia Grossman (USA)
• Oriane Bertone (FRA)
• Zhang Yuetong (CHN)
• Oceana Mackenzie (AUS)
• Lauren Mukheibir (RSA)

Olympic Competitors – Men

• Jakob Schubert (AUT)
• Colin Duffy (USA)
• Tomoa Narasaki (JPN)
• Jesse Grupper (USA)
• Toby Roberts (GBR)
• Sorato Anraku (JPN)
• Campbell Harrison (AUS)
• Mel Janse van Rensburg (RSA)

Olympic Qualifier Series

You’ve likely noticed that there are some big names missing from these lists. Brooke Raboutou, Adam Ondra, Miho Nonaka, Alex Megos, Chaehyun Seo, and Mejdi Schalck, just to name a few. These climbers will have one final opportunity to compete for an Olympic qualifying spot at the Olympic Qualifier Series in May and June 2024.

Held in Shanghai, China on May 16–19 and Budapest, Hungary on June 20–23, this Olympic Qualifier Series will award 10 Olympic tickets in each gender category. Two additional spots will then be granted: one for the host nation (France) and one “universality” place for typically underrepresented nations in climbing. Because the host nation spot has already filled by France’s Oriane Bertone, it will be reallocated to the highest-ranked climber without a qualifying spot.

Below is a list of the 32 climbers in each gender category who have earned their chance to compete at the Olympic Qualifier Series. The primary criteria for qualification was athlete IFSC World Rankings in the Boulder & Lead discipline.

Olympic Qualifier Series – Women

• Brooke RABOUTOU (USA)
• Miho NONAKA (JPN)
• Chaehyun SEO (KOR)
• Jain KIM (KOR)
• Vita LUKAN (SLO)
• Mia KRAMPL (SLO)
• Anastasia SANDERS (USA)
• Futaba ITO (JPN)
• Nonoha KUME (JPN)
• Hélène JANICOT (FRA)
• Manon HILY (FRA)
• Ayala KEREM (ISR)
• Hannah MEUL (GER)
• Stasa GEJO (SRB)
• Molly THOMPSON-SMITH (GBR)
• Fanny GIBERT (FRA)
• Laura ROGORA (ITA)
• Luo ZHILU (CHN)
• Ryu NAKAGAWA (JPN)
• Zélia AVEZOU (FRA)
• Ievgeniia KAZBEKOVA (UKR)
• Eliska ADAMOVSKA (CZE)
• Sara COPAR (SLO)
• Camilla MORONI (ITA)
• Lucka RAKOVEC (SLO)
• Kyra CONDIE (USA)
• Lynn VAN DER MEER (NED)
• Lucia DÖRFFEL (GER)
• Giorgia TESIO (ITA)
• Petra KLINGLER (SUI)
• Noa SHIRAN (ISR)
• Roxana WIENAND (GER)
• Elnaz REKABI (IRI)
• Franziska STERRER (AUT)
• Yejoo SEO (KOR)
• Erin MCNIECE (GBR)
• Aleksandra TOTKOVA (BUL)
• Sandra HOPFENSITZ (GER)
• Alannah YIP (CAN)
• Michaela SMETANOVA (CZE)
• Maya STASIUK (AUS)
• Kylie CULLEN (USA)
• Martina BURŠÍKOVÁ (SVK)
• Valentina AGUADO (ARG)
• Sol SA (KOR)
• Chloe CAULIER (BEL)
• Tegwen OATES (RSA)
• Svana BJARNASON (ISL)

Olympic Qualifier Series – Men

• Mejdi SCHALCK (FRA)
• Dohyun LEE (KOR)
• Alexander MEGOS (GER)
• Adam ONDRA (CZE)
• Sam AVEZOU (FRA)
• Yannick FLOHÉ (GER)
• Sascha LEHMANN (SUI)
• Paul JENFT (FRA)
• Alberto GINÉS LÓPEZ (ESP)
• Jongwon CHON (KOR)
• Hannes VAN DUYSEN (BEL)
• Yufei PAN (CHN)
• Mickael MAWEM (FRA)
• Simon LORENZI (BEL)
• Nicolas COLLIN (BEL)
• Yunchan SONG (KOR)
• Luka POTOCAR (SLO)
• Nicolai UZNIK (AUT)
• Hamish MCARTHUR (GBR)
• Jan-Luca POSCH (AUT)
• Stefan SCHERZ (AUT)
• Nimrod MARCUS (ISR)
• Maximilian MILNE (GBR)
• Hannes PUMAN (SWE)
• Edvards GRUZITIS (LAT)
• Martin STRANIK (CZE)
• Stefano GHISOLFI (ITA)
• Anze PEHARC (SLO)
• Martin BERGANT (SLO)
• Jack MACDOUGALL (GBR)
• Jonas UTELLI (SUI)
• Sean MCCOLL (CAN)
• Filip SCHENK (ITA)
• Nikolay RUSEV (BUL)
• Marcello BOMBARDI (ITA)
• Ravianto RAMADHAN (INA)
• James POPE (GBR)
• Zan LOVENJAK SUDAR (SLO)
• Giorgio TOMATIS (ITA)
• Alex KHAZANOV (ISR)
• Oscar BAUDRAND (CAN)
• Yuval SHEMLA (ISR)
• Geva LEVIN (ISR)
• Yannick NAGEL (GER)
• Raviandi RAMADHAN (INA)
• Christopher COSSER (RSA)
• Dylan PARKS (AUS)
• Nimród Sebastyén TUSNÁDY (HUN)