During the 129th IOC Session in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2016, the International Olympic Committee added Sport Climbing to the programme of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. From 3 to 6 August 2021, a total of 40 Sport Climbing athletes - 20 men and 20 women - competed in a Combined event at Tokyo's Aomi Urban Sports Park, featuring all three disciplines of the sport: Boulder, Lead, and Speed, in one event.
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HISTORIC MOMENT FOR SPORT CLIMBING AS IFSC DELEGATION ARRIVES AT TOKYO 2020
PROMINENT ROLE FOR SPORT CLIMBING DURING TOKYO 2020 OPENING CEREMONY
WHERE TO WATCH SPORT CLIMBING AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES TOKYO 2020
TOGETHER WHILST APART: HOW TOKYO 2020 IS TACKLING A LACK OF SPECTATORS
CLIMBING COMMUNITY GATHER VIRTUALLY ON THE EVE OF HISTORIC OLYMPIC DEBUT
CLARIFICATION ON SPEED WORLD AND OLYMPIC RECORDS
THREE QUESTIONS ABOUT SPORT CLIMBING’S OLYMPIC DEBUT, ANSWERED
SPORT CLIMBING’S OLYMPIC DEBUT COMMENCES TODAY WITH MEN’S COMBINED QUALIFICATION
MAWEM BROTHERS DOMINATE TOKYO 2020 MEN’S COMBINED QUALIFICATION
SPORT CLIMBING’S FEMALE OLYMPIANS TAKE TO THE TOKYO 2020 STAGE TODAY
GARNBRET GRABS FIRST PLACE IN TOKYO 2020 WOMEN’S COMBINED QUALIFICATION
CLARIFICATION ON TOMORROW’S MEN’S COMBINED FINAL
FIRST EVER SPORT CLIMBING OLYMPIC GOLD FOR GINÉS LÓPEZ
IOC PRESIDENT VISITS SPORT CLIMBING AS HISTORIC FIRST MEDAL AWARDED
GOLD FOR GARNBRET IN OLYMPIC GAMES SPORT CLIMBING COMBINED
JANJA GARNBRET CONTINUES TO MAKE HISTORY, BEARS SLOVENIAN FLAG AT TOKYO 2020 CLOSING CEREMONY
History was made at the IFSC World Championships 2019 in Hachioji, Japan, as Sport Climbing’s top athletes went head-to-head in the first qualifying event. At the conclusion of the competition, eight of the highest placed athletes per gender, with a maximum of two per country, had earned a quota place for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.
The second qualification event took place in Toulouse, France, where the top 20 athletes per gender in the Combined rankings competed for the next six quota spots per gender for the Games.
In 2020, a further eight athletes qualified through continental championships in Los Angeles, USA, in Moscow, Russia, in Cape Town, South Africa, and in Sydney, Australia. Two athletes per continent qualified through each championship: one man and one woman.
The final four Olympic positions were assigned based on the athletes' rankings at Hachioji 2019, due to the cancellation of the Asian Championships as a result of COVID-19, and the reallocation of two unused quota places after Sport Climbing received no Tripartite Commission applications.