Brooke Raboutou ( ; born April 9, 2001) is a French-American professional

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who specializes in

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and

boulder In geology, a boulder (or rarely bowlder) is a rock fragment with size greater than in diameter. Smaller pieces are called cobbles and pebbles. While a boulder may be small enough to move or roll manually, others are extremely massive. In ...

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and

bouldering Bouldering is a form of rock climbing that is performed on small rock formations or Climbing wall, artificial rock walls without the use of ropes or Climbing harness, harnesses. While bouldering can be done without any equipment, most climbers ...

. She is an Olympic silver medalist in the combined bouldering and lead climbing event (

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). She is the first-ever woman in history to redpoint a graded sport-climbing route with her 2025 ascent of ''Excalibur''.

Early life

Both of Raboutou's parents, and

Robyn Erbesfield-Raboutou Robyn Erbesfield-Raboutou Robyn Erbesfield-Raboutou (born 8 May 1963), is an American rock climber and rock climbing coach. In competition lead climbing, she is a 4-time World Cup champion (1992, 1993, 1994, 1995), and won the biennial World C ...

, are former world champion competition climbers and leading outdoor

sport climber Sport climbing (or bolted climbing) is a type of free climbing in the sport of rock climbing where the Lead climbing, lead climber clips their climbing rope, rope — via a quickdraw — into pre-drilled in-situ bolt (climbing), bolts for their ...

s with notable

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s. Her brother, Shawn Raboutou, is a professional

who specializes in

. Raboutou attended the University of San Diego and was a member of Gamma Phi Beta Sorority.

Climbing career

Rock climbing

At age 9, she climbed a

, and became the youngest woman to climb a

route. At 10, she sent a boulder and became the youngest woman to climb a sport climbing route. At 11, she became the youngest woman to send a sport climbing route. In October 2023, she made the second female ascent of ''Box Therapy'', a boulder, and proposed a downgrade to . In April 2025, she made the first female ascent of ''Excalibur'', a sport climbing route. In doing so, she became the first woman to ever climb a sport climbing route at that grade.

Competition climbing

Raboutou was at the

University of San Diego The University of San Diego (USD) is a Private university, private Catholic Church, Catholic research university in San Diego, California, United States. Chartered in 1949 as the independent San Diego College for Women and San Diego University ...

in 2018 before taking time off to prepare 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, where she finished in 5th place in the

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. In April 2023, she won the IFSC Boulder World Cup in Hachioji, Japan, claiming her first ever

IFSC Climbing World Cup The IFSC Climbing World Cup is a series of competition climbing events held during the year at various locations around the world, organized by the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC). At each event, the athletes compete in three d ...

gold medal. In 2024, Raboutou placed first in the rankings of the boulder and lead combined event at the Olympic Qualifier Series, securing a spot for the combined event at the

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in Paris. Raboutou won the silver medal in the combined event at the 2024 Summer Olympics, becoming the first American woman to win an Olympic medal in sport climbing.

Rankings

World Cups

Season rankings

Podiums

Bouldering Lead

Climbing World Championships

Youth Senior

References

External links

* * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Raboutou, Brooke 2001 births Living people American female climbers American rock climbers University of San Diego alumni Sportspeople from Boulder, Colorado Sport climbers at the 2023 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2023 Pan American Games Sport climbers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Sport climbers at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic sport climbers for the United States Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for the United States in sport climbing IFSC Climbing World Cup overall medalists Boulder climbers 21st-century American sportswomen American people of French descent IFSC Climbing World Championships medalists American competition climbers