Seo Chae-hyun (
Hangul
The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul, . Hangul may also be written as following South Korea's standard Romanization. ( ) in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea, is the modern official writing system for the Korean language. The let ...
: , born 1 November 2003), also known as Chaehyun Seo, is a
South Korean professional rock climber who specializes in
competition climbing. She won the overall
2019 World Cup title in
competition lead climbing
A climbing competition (or comp) is usually held indoors on purpose built climbing walls. There are three main types of climbing competition: lead, speed, and bouldering. In lead climbing, the competitors start at the bottom of a route and must c ...
in her senior debut season.
Early life
Seo was born into a family of climbers. She started climbing in 2008. Her father owns a climbing gym in Seoul.
Climbing career
Rock climbing
In 2018, at age fourteen, Seo
redpointed a
sport climbing
Sport climbing (or Bolted climbing) is a form of rock climbing that relies on permanent anchors (or bolts), permanently fixed into the rock for climber protection, in which a rope that is attached to the climber is clipped into the anchors to ...
route called ''Bad Girls Club'' at the Wicked Cave at Rifle, Colorado.
On November 22, 2022, Seo redpointed the famous Spanish sport climb, ''
La Rambla'', becoming the second woman to redpoint the route.
Competition climbing
In 2019, she made her
IFSC Climbing World Cup debut and won the Lead World Cup season title ahead of Slovenian
Janja Garnbret
Janja Garnbret (born March 12, 1999) is a Slovenian rock climbing, rock climber and sport climber who has won multiple lead climbing and bouldering events at climbing competitions. In 2021, she became the first ever female Olympic gold medalist in ...
and Japanese
Natsuki Tanii by winning 4 gold, 1 silver, and 1 bronze medals in six out of six lead events.
Then she participated in the
Asian Championships and placed first in both lead and bouldering disciplines.
In 2019, she qualified for the first appearance of
Sport Climbing at the Summer Olympics. She was due to compete at the
IFSC Asian Continental Championships which was cancelled. Her placing at the
IFSC Combined World Championships led to her being given the place alongside teammate
Jongwon Chon.
Rankings
World Cup
World Championships
Asian Championships
World Cup podiums
Lead
Television
References
External links
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South Korean female climbers
2003 births
Living people
South Korean rock climbers
Sport climbers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic sport climbers for South Korea
IFSC Climbing World Championships medalists
IFSC Climbing World Cup overall medalists
Sport climbers at the 2022 Asian Games
Asian Games silver medalists for South Korea
Asian Games medalists in sport climbing
Medalists at the 2022 Asian Games
South Korean competition climbers