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Janja Garnbret
Janja Garnbret won Olympic gold in sport climbing's combined event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the discipline's debut as a full Olympic sport, becoming the first-ever Olympic champion in climbing and establishing herself as the dominant competitive climber of her generation. Her sustained dominance across World Cup competitions throughout the 2010s and 2020s, winning an unusually high proportion of the events she entered across multiple different climbing disciplines, reflected genuinely all-around excellence uncommon even among elite competitive climbers. Garnbret successfully defended her Olympic title at the 2024 Paris Olympics, winning gold in the boulder and lead combined event again and becoming the first climber to win consecutive Olympic titles in the sport's still-young Olympic history. Her combination of being climbing's first-ever Olympic champion and her sustained back-to-back Olympic dominance has made Garnbret the individual most widely regarded as the greatest competitive sport climber in the discipline's Olympic era.
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Chris Sharma
Chris Sharma became one of the most influential figures in pushing sport climbing's technical difficulty standards forward during the late 1990s and 2000s, completing several of the world's hardest routes at the time and helping establish climbing destinations in Spain as globally significant centers for elite sport climbing. His charismatic public persona and his role in several widely viewed climbing films helped introduce sport climbing to a broader mainstream audience during a period when the sport had limited visibility outside its dedicated community. Sharma's combination of raw physical power and creative problem-solving on extremely technical routes made him one of the most influential stylistic models for subsequent generations of competitive and outdoor sport climbers. His combination of genuine technical climbing achievements at the sport's cutting edge and his significant role popularizing climbing to mainstream audiences has made Sharma one of the most historically influential figures in the sport's growth from a niche activity into a broader recognized athletic discipline.
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