Alannah Yip (born October 26, 1993) is a Canadian

rock climber Rock climbing is a climbing sports discipline that involves ascending routes consisting of natural rock in an outdoor environment, or on artificial resin climbing walls in a mostly indoor environment. Routes are documented in guidebooks, and ...

who specializes in

competition climbing Competition climbing is a form of regulated rock climbing, rock-climbing competition held indoor climbing, indoors on purpose-built artificial climbing walls (earlier versions were held on external natural rock surfaces). The three competition ...

. She was the national champion in her age category when she was twelve. She won a gold medal at the Panamerican Climbing Championships 2020 in Los Angeles, which qualified her for the

2020 Summer Olympics The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ...

in Tokyo.

Life

Yip was born and raised in North Vancouver. Her mother is Scottish and her father is Chinese. She began climbing when she was nine when her godparent's children became interested in climbing. She won her first National Climbing Championship when she was twelve. She trained to be an engineer, specializing in

mechatronics Mechatronics engineering, also called mechatronics, is the synergistic integration of mechanical, electrical, and computer systems employing mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, electronic engineering and computer engineering, and also ...

. She tried giving up climbing to concentrate on her university studies, but she realized that sport was essential. In 2015 she was able to visit Switzerland as part of her studies and she was able to practice climbing in her spare time with the Swiss national team. When she returned to Canada she began training with the "Climb Base 5" in preparation for the following years World Cup climbing events. Alannah Yip climber

Yip graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Science in

mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines and mechanism (engineering), mechanisms that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and engineering mathematics, mathematics principl ...

from the

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a Public university, public research university with campuses near University of British Columbia Vancouver, Vancouver and University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, in British Columbia, Canada ...

in 2018. Her coach was Andrew Wilson in 2018 and she has been supported by

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. She qualified for a place in sport climbing at the 2020 Summer Olympics by winning the 2020 IFSC Pan-American Championships.

Results

World championships A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game ...

Pan American championships

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Yip, Alannah 1993 births Living people Sportspeople from North Vancouver Canadian engineers Canadian rock climbers Sport climbers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic sport climbers for Canada Canadian female climbers Canadian competition climbers Sport climbers at the 2023 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2023 Pan American Games 21st-century Canadian sportswomen