Alberto Ginés López
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Full name | Alberto Ginés López | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Cáceres, Spain | 23 October 2002||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation | Professional rock climber | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 169 cm (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 58 kg (128 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Type of climber | Competition climbing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Known for | Winning the first Olympic gold in Sport climbing Combined, Men's Division, in Tokyo, 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Updated on 5 August 2021 |
Alberto Ginés López (born 23 October 2002) is a Spanish professional rock climber, specializing in competition lead climbing and competition bouldering. He won gold at the first Olympic sport climbing event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in August 2021. He placed second in the 2019 Lead Climbing World Cup[1] and won a silver medal at the 2019 Lead Climbing European Championship.[2]
Biography[edit]
Ginés started climbing with his parents when he was very young. In 2013, Ginés, who was 10 years old at the time, met professional climbing coach David Macià in Rodellar, after his father introduced the child to him. Macià was surprised by the attitude with which Ginés climbed the sport climbing route, El Delfín 7c+ (5.13a), and became his coach.
In 2016, after the announcement that competition climbing would become an Olympic sport at 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, he moved from Cáceres to Barcelona to train, with the goal of qualifying for the international event.[3]
In August 2017, Ginés took a silver medal at the Lead Climbing Youth World Championships, in the category Youth B. A month later, he won the Lead Climbing European Youth Championship in the same category. In May 2018, Ginés won the Lead Climbing European Youth Championship, in the category Youth A. In August 2019, he took bronze medals at the Lead Climbing and Combined Climbing Youth World Championships, in the category Youth A. A month later, Ginés also won a bronze at the Lead Climbing European Youth Championships, in the same category.
On 6 October 2019, Ginés won a silver medal at the Lead Climbing European Championships.[2] Later that month, he finished second in the Lead Climbing World Cup,[1] winning medals in two of its six events: a bronze in Kranj and a silver in the last event,[2] held in Inzai. In November, Ginés qualified to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. He won gold in the men's combined event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Rankings[edit]
Climbing World Cup[edit]
Discipline | 2019 |
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Lead | 2 |
Climbing European Championships[edit]
Discipline | 2019 |
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Lead | 2 |
Number of medals in the Climbing European Youth Cup[edit]
Lead[edit]
Season | Category | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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2017 | Youth B | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
2018 | Youth A | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
2019 | Youth A | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
Total | 5 | 1 | 3 | 9 |
Bouldering[edit]
Season | Category | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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2017 | Youth B | 2 | 2 | ||
2018 | Youth A | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
2019 | Youth A | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Total | 4 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
Number of medals in the Climbing World Cup[edit]
Lead[edit]
Season | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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2019 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
2023 | 1 | 1 | ||
Total | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
See also[edit]
References[edit]
External links[edit]
- Alberto Ginés López at the International Federation of Sport Climbing (archive)
- Alberto Ginés López at Olympics.com
- Alberto Ginés at Olympedia
- Alberto Ginés López at the Comité Olímpico Español (in Spanish)
- Alberto Ginés López at the Comité Olímpico Español (new page) (in Spanish)
- 2002 births
- Living people
- Spanish rock climbers
- Sportspeople from the Province of Cáceres
- Sport climbers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Spain
- Olympic medalists in sport climbing
- Olympic sport climbers for Spain
- People from Cáceres, Spain
- 21st-century Spanish people
- IFSC Climbing World Cup overall medalists
- Spanish competition climbers