Climbing events: what is decided in 2026, and what is still to come.

Every result on these pages carries its year and the source that reported it. Where only Wikipedia gives a result, we say so. Where sources disagree on a time, a date or a winner, we give each version and who reports it. The federation that runs competition climbing has been called World Climbing since 10 December 2025; before that it was the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC), and older results carry that name.

Decided in 2026

The 2026 Asian Games climbing events and the World Climbing Youth Championship in Arco are also finished; results are on the 2026 World Climbing Series and youth climbing pages.

Still to come

• Lead and Speed overall titles 2026: not decided. The final stop is Santiago, Chile, from 23 to 25 October 2026. Before it, Wikipedia's standings have Neo Suzuki and Annie Sanders leading Lead, and Ryo Omasa and Emma Hunt leading Speed. They are leaders, not champions.
• Para Series 2026: two events left, Gunsan, South Korea (30 October to 1 November) and Fukuoka, Japan (5 to 6 November), so there is no series winner yet.
• Nations Grand Finale: a team competition in Fukuoka on 7 and 8 November 2026.
• Piolets d'Or 2026: the ceremony week is under way in the Oisans, France, from 21 to 25 October 2026.
• Next World Championships: 2027. Summaries of the LA28 qualification documents place it in Brno, Czechia, in August 2027; we have not confirmed that on a World Climbing page.
• Los Angeles 2028: six Olympic climbing events from 24 to 29 July 2028, and para climbing's Paralympic debut.

What is in this section

World Climbing

The federation formerly called the IFSC: its 2007 founding, Olympic recognition, the 2025 rename and the competitions it runs.

How competitions work

Boulder points since 2025, Lead and Speed rounds, four-lane Speed and relays, and the Olympic combined formats.

The Olympics

Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 medallists, the disputed Paris Speed record, and the six events planned for LA28.

World Championships

Every podium from Bern 2023 and Seoul 2025, and the first championships in Frankfurt in 1991.

2026 World Climbing Series

The calendar, event winners, Boulder titles, Lead and Speed standings before Santiago, and the Asian Games.

Speed records

The men's, women's and relay world records, and how the men's record was set three times since 2025.

Para climbing

The sport classes, the eight LA28 Paralympic events, Seoul 2025 champions and the 2026 Para Series.

Youth climbing

The youth world championships since 1992, the U17 and U19 categories, and Helsinki 2025 and Arco 2026.

Piolets d'Or

The mountaineering awards: the 2026 awarded ascents, winners since 2023 and the lifetime award.

Notable ascents

The 9c routes, women's 9b+ ascents, Burden of Dreams repeats, the Dawn Wall and Taipei 101, as the press reported them.

Watching climbing

World Climbing's YouTube streams and the broadcasters it named for 2026 events, region by region.

Two things to keep in mind

Results can differ by source. The clearest case is Sam Watson's bronze-race time at Paris 2024, which World Climbing reports as a world record of 4.84 s and Olympics.com as 4.74 s; since the winning time in the same final was 4.75 s, World Climbing's figure may be a typing error. The pages give both and say which we could not check.

Ascents are reported by the press. Outdoor ascents and their grades are given as climbers and publications such as LaCrux and Gripped reported them, and proposed grades can change after repeats, as two on the notable ascents page did. The history of competition climbing, from Sportroccia in 1985 (the first international competition, per Wikipedia) to the Olympics, is on competition climbing history.