Sandrine Levet (born 22 July 1982) is a French professional
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 ...
, specializing 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 ...
and
competition bouldering
Competition climbing is a form of regulated rock-climbing competition held indoors on purpose-built artificial climbing walls (earlier versions were held on external natural rock surfaces). The three competition climbing disciplines are lead ...
and
competition lead climbing
Competition climbing is a form of regulated rock-climbing competition held indoors on purpose-built artificial climbing walls (earlier versions were held on external natural rock surfaces). The three competition climbing disciplines are lead ...
in particular. Levet is one of the most successful female competition climbers in history. Levet dominated competition bouldering in the early to mid-2000s, winning five
IFSC Bouldering World Cups, and one
IFSC Bouldering World Championship. Levet was also a strong competition lead climber, finishing second three times in the
IFSC Lead Climbing World Cup, which also helped her to win the overall
IFSC Combined Climbing World Cup five times. As of the end of 2022, Levet had won the
second-most IFSC gold medals of any female competition climber in history.
Biographic notes
Daughter of mountaineers, she started climbing when she was five years old. In the following ten years, she also practiced
cross-country skiing
Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing whereby skiers traverse snow-covered terrain without use of ski lifts or other assistance. Cross-country skiing is widely practiced as a sport and recreational activity; however, some still use it as a m ...
,
ski mountaineering
Ski mountaineering (abbreviated to skimo) is a skiing discipline that involves climbing mountains either on skis or carrying them, depending on the steepness of the ascent, and then descending on skis. There are two major categories of equipment ...
,
gymnastics
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and
swimming
Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, such as saltwater or freshwater environments, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Swimmers achieve locomotion by coordinating limb and body movements to achieve hydrody ...
.
Rankings
Climbing World Cup
Climbing World Championships
Number of medals in the Climbing World Cup
Lead
Bouldering
See also
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List of grade milestones in rock climbing
In rock-climbing, a first free ascent (FFA) is the first redpoint (climbing), redpoint, onsight or flash (climbing), flash of a pitch (ascent/descent), single-pitch, multi-pitch climbing, multi-pitch or bouldering, bouldering climbing route that ...
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History of rock climbing
In the history of rock climbing, the three main sub-disciplines – bouldering, Pitch (climbing), single-pitch climbing, and big wall climbing, big wall (and multi-pitch climbing, multi-pitch) climbing – can trace their origins to late 19th-ce ...
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Rankings of most career IFSC gold medals
References
External links
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1982 births
Living people
French rock climbers
IFSC Climbing World Championships medalists
IFSC Climbing World Cup overall medalists
Boulder climbers
French female climbers
French competition climbers
21st-century French sportswomen