Brooke Raboutou Explained

Brooke Raboutou (born April 9, 2001) is a French-American professional rock climber who specializes in competition climbing where she competes as part of the US National Team. She won the silver medal in the combined bouldering and lead climbing event at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Early life

Both of Raboutou's parents, and Robyn Erbesfield-Raboutou, are former world champion competition climbers and leading outdoor sport climbers with notable first free ascents.^[2] Her brother, Shawn Raboutou, is a professional rock climber who specializes in bouldering. Raboutou trains/trained with other accomplished athletes such as Campbell Sarinopoulos.

Climbing career

Rock climbing

At age 9, she climbed a boulder, and became the youngest woman to climb a sport climbing route. At 10, she sent a boulder and became the youngest woman to climb a sport route. At 11, she became the youngest woman to send a sport route.^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

In October 2023, she made the second female ascent of Box Therapy, a boulder, and proposed a downgrade to .^{[7] [8]}

Competition climbing

Raboutou was at the University of San Diego in 2018 before taking time off to prepare for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo,^[9] where she finished in 5th place in the combined event.^[10]

In April 2023, she won the IFSC Boulder World Cup in Hachioji, Japan, claiming her first ever IFSC Climbing World Cup gold medal.^{[11] [12]}

In 2024, Raboutou placed first in the rankings of the boulder and lead combined event at the Olympic Qualifier Series, securing a spot for the combined event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.^[13]

Raboutou won the silver medal in the combined event at the 2024 Summer Olympics,^[14] becoming the first American woman to win an Olympic medal in sport climbing.^[15]

Rankings

World Cups

Season rankings

Discipline	2018	2019	2021	2022	2023
Lead	58	46	17	5	15
Bouldering	49	55	4	3	3
Speed	70	73	21	-	-

Podiums

Bouldering^[16]

Season	First	Second	Third	Total
2021	-	-	2	2
2022	-	1	2	3
2023	1	0	2	3
Total	1	1	6	8

Lead^[16]

Season	First	Second	Third	Total
2021	-	1	-	1
2022	-	1	2	3
2023	-	-	1	1
Total	0	2	3	5

Climbing World Championships

Youth^[16]

Discipline	2016 Youth B	2017 Youth A	2018 Youth A	2019 Juniors
Lead	2	2	1	3
Bouldering	3	3	6	-
Speed	17	28	18	-
Combined	1	2	-	-

Senior

Discipline	2019 Hachioji	2021 Moscow	2023 Bern
Lead	15	5	5
Bouldering	41	5	3
Speed	24	-	-
Combined	9	-	4

Notes and References

1. Web site: Brooke Raboutou . International Federation of Sport Climbing . 25 January 2023.
2. Web site: Race on! Meet Brooke, 13, the world record breaking rock climber who lives life on the l-edge . February 4, 2016 . July 16, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210716194418/https://www.catersnews.com/stories/real-people/rock-on-meet-brooke-13-the-world-record-breaking-rock-climber-who-lives-life-on-the-l-edge/ . live .
3. Web site: Brooke Raboutou Profile . gymclimber.com . March 20, 2020 . March 10, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210310205458/https://www.gymclimber.com/brooke-raboutou/ . live .
4. Web site: Zaccardi . Nick . Brooke Raboutou is first U.S. Olympic sport climbing qualifier . NBC Sports . August 18, 2019 . August 19, 2019 . July 16, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210716194422/https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2019/08/18/brooke-raboutou-sport-climbing/ . live .
5. Web site: Boulder woman is first American to qualify for Olympic climbing — ever. 2019-09-04. The Know. en-US. 2020-03-22. March 22, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200322002720/https://theknow.denverpost.com/2019/09/04/brooke-raboutou-first-american-olympics-climbing/223309/. live.
6. Web site: 2019-09-09 . Brooke Raboutou: First-Ever American Climber to Qualify for Olympics . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200322002724/https://yourboulder.com/brooke-raboutou/ . March 22, 2020 . 2020-03-22 . Your Boulder . en-US.
7. Web site: Box Therapy V15 . 2023-10-14 . www.instagram.com.
8. Web site: 2023-10-13 . NEWS: Brooke Raboutou climbs Box Therapy . 2023-10-14 . www.ukclimbing.com . en.
9. News: Former USD Student Climbs Toward Olympic History. Steven. Luke. NBC San Diego. April 7, 2021. April 20, 2021. April 22, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210422154934/https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/climbing-towards-olympic-history/2570188/. live.
10. Web site: Olympic Games. 2021-08-20. www.ifsc-climbing.org. November 19, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211119141154/https://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php/olympic-games. live.
11. Web site: USA'S RABOUTOU CLAIMS FIRST EVER IFSC BOULDER WORLD CUP GOLD . 2023-10-14 . www.ifsc-climbing.org.
12. Web site: gripped . 2023-04-24 . Brooke Raboutou Wins World Cup Gold . 2023-10-14 . Gripped Magazine . en-US.
13. Web site: 24 Combined athletes qualify in Budapest for Paris 2024 Olympic Games . 2024-07-13 . PlanetMountain.com.
14. Web site: Aspland . Richard . 2024-08-10 . Official website of the International Federation of Sport Climbing. . 2024-08-10 . www.ifsc-climbing.org . en.
15. Web site: Press . Tales Azzoni The Associated . 2024-08-10 . Janja Garnbret defends her Olympic gold in sport climbing. American Brooke Raboutou wins a silver . 2024-08-10 . Toronto Star . en.
16. Web site: Brooke Raboutou . IFSC . 22 May 2021 . June 15, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210615230653/https://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php?option=com_ifsc&task=athlete.display&id=1811 . live .