Alberto Ginés

Alberto Ginés López^[a] (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]

Alberto Ginés

Personal information
Full name	Alberto Ginés López
Born	(2002-10-23) 23 October 2002 (age 22) Cáceres, Cáceres, Spain
Occupation	Professional rock climber
Height	169 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	58 kg (128 lb)
Climbing career
Type of climber	Competition climbing
Known for	Winning the first Olympic gold in Sport climbing Combined, Men's Division, in Tokyo, 2021
Medal record Men's competition climbing Representing  Spain Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Combined World Cup 2019 Lead European Championships 2019 Edinburgh Lead 2022 Munich Lead 2022 Munich Combined
Updated on 5 August 2021

Biography

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

Climbing World Cup

Discipline	2019
Lead	2

^[1]

Climbing European Championships

Discipline	2019
Lead	2

^[2]

Number of medals in the Climbing European Youth Cup

Lead

Season	Category	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
2017	Youth B	2	1	1	4
2018	Youth A	1		1	2
2019	Youth A	2		1	3
Total		5	1	3	9

^[2]

Bouldering

Season	Category	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
2017	Youth B	2			2
2018	Youth A	1	1		2
2019	Youth A	1	1		2
Total		4	2	0	6

^[2]

Number of medals in the Climbing World Cup

Lead

Season	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
2019		1	1	2
2023			1	1
Total	0	1	2	3

^[2]

See also

• History of rock climbing

Notes

1. In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Ginés and the second or maternal family name is López.

References

1. "World Cup Rankings". IFSC. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
2. "Ginés' profile and rankings". IFSC. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
3. "Alberto Ginés, en el olimpo". El Periódico (in Spanish). 10 February 2020. Retrieved 29 February 2020.

External links

• Alberto Ginés López at the International Federation of Sport Climbing (archive)
• Alberto Ginés at Olympedia (archive)
• Alberto Gines Lopez at Olympics.com
• Alberto Gines Lopez at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
• Alberto Ginés López (and here) at the Comité Olímpico Español (in Spanish)
• Alberto Ginés López at the Comité Olímpico Español (new page) (in Spanish)