Adam Ondra

Adam Ondra
	Ondra in 2018
Personal information
Born	February 5, 1993 (age 31); Brno, Czech Republic
Education	Masaryk University
Occupation	Professional rock climber
Height	186 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	70 kg (154 lb)
Spouse	Iva Ondra
Website	www.adamondra.com
Climbing career
Type of climber	Sport climbing; Bouldering; Competition climbing; Big wall climbing;
Ape index	+1cm (0.4 in)
Highest grade	Redpoint: 9c (5.15d); On-sight: 9a+ (5.15a) (as flash); Bouldering: 8C+ (V16);
Known for	First to climb consensus sport 9b+ (5.15c) and 9c (5.15d); First to flash consensus sport 9a+ (5.15a); First to win the World Championship in bouldering and lead climbing in single year; First to win the World Cup in bouldering and lead climbing;
First ascents	Silence (9c, 2017); La Dura Dura (9b+, 2013); Change (9b/9b+, 2012); Terranova (V16, 2011);
Medal record
Men's competition climbing
Representing Czech Republic
World Championships
World Cup
European Championships
	Updated on April 19, 2021

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Adam Ondra (born February 5, 1993) is a Czech professional rock climber, specializing in lead climbing, bouldering, and competition climbing. In 2013, Rock & Ice described Ondra as a prodigy and the leading climber of his generation.^[1] Ondra is the only male athlete to have won World Championship titles in both disciplines in the same year (2014) and is one of the two male athletes (alongside Sorato Anraku in 2023) to have won the World Cup series in both disciplines (lead climbing in 2009, 2015, and 2019 and bouldering in 2010).

At age 13, Ondra redpointed his first graded 9a (5.14d) sport route. Rock & Ice noted that by 2011, he was "onsighting 5.14c's by the handful", and by 2013, had "more or less repeated every hard route in the world—easily".^[1] By end 2018, Ondra had climbed 1,550 sport routes between grades 8a (5.13b) and 9c (5.15d), of which one was a 9c (5.15d), three were 9b+ (5.15c), and three were onsights of 9a (5.14d).^[2]

Ondra is the first climber to redpoint a route with a proposed grade of 9c (5.15d) (Silence, 2017),^[3] the first-ever climber to redpoint a 9b+ (5.15c) route (Change, 2012),^[4] the first-ever to flash a 9a+ (5.15a) route (Supercrackinette, 2018), and the second ever to onsight a 9a (5.14d) route (Cabane au Canada, 2013).^[5] According to The Economist, Ondra is "regarded as possibly the best climber ever to fondle rock".^[6]

^ ^a ^b Bisharat, Andrew (27 November 2013). "Perfect Play: What It Took to Climb La Dura Dura (5.15c) – The World's Hardest Route". rockandice.com. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
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^ "Climbing without ropes: A series of remarkable feats increases the appeal of a niche sport". The Economist. June 8, 2017. Retrieved June 9, 2017.

[rockice2013-1] Bisharat, Andrew (27 November 2013). "Perfect Play: What It Took to Climb La Dura Dura (5.15c) – The World's Hardest Route". rockandice.com. Retrieved 14 March 2020.

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[6] "Climbing without ropes: A series of remarkable feats increases the appeal of a niche sport". The Economist. June 8, 2017. Retrieved June 9, 2017.

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