Ai Mori

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Ai Mori
Mori in 2019
Personal information
Born (2003-09-17) September 17, 2003 (age 20)
Ibaraki, Japan
OccupationProfessional sport climber
Height154 cm (5 ft 1 in)[1]
Climbing career
Type of climberLead climbing, Bouldering
Highest grade
Known forWinning the bronze medal in lead climbing at 2019 World Championship
Medal record
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Lead
Updated on August 20, 2019

Ai Mori (森 秋彩, Mori Ai, born September 17, 2003) is a Japanese professional rock climber, sport climber and boulderer. At the 2019 IFSC Climbing World Championships, she became the youngest Japanese athlete to finish in podium place in the competition, finishing third in lead, has won Japan Cup titles in both bouldering and lead disciplines, and has multiple IFSC Climbing World Cup podium finishes, including three gold medal in World Cup events in 2022.

Climbing career

In 2016, Mori won Lead Japan Cup, becoming the youngest winner of the competition at age 12.[2] She has repeated as the national lead champion in 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022. Mori has also won the Boulder Japan Cup in 2021 and finished second in 2018.[3]

Mori made her senior international debut in 2019, winning two bronze medals in lead and one in bouldering World Cups.[4][5][6][7] Later that year, she placed third in the lead category at the IFSC Climbing World Championships,[8] becoming the youngest Japanese climber, at age 15, to medal at the World Championship. Akiyo Noguchi had held the previous record with her 2005 bronze medal in lead at age 16.[9][10] In November and December 2019, Mori finished fifth in the combined category at the Olympic qualifying event in Toulouse, France. However, Japan had already filled its athlete quota for the 2020 Olympic Games, so Mori did not compete at the Games despite finishing in qualifying places.[11]

In September 2022, Mori took first place at the World Cup event in Koper, Slovenia,[12] finishing ahead of second-place finisher Janja Garnbret, who had won all four lead World Cups of the season coming into Koper.[13] Mori was competing in her first World Cup event of the year, and her first international event of any kind since the 2020 Olympic qualifying event in 2019.[14] She followed this up with first place finishes in another two World Cups events, at the lead event in Edinburgh, Scotland,[15] and the season-ending combined boulder and lead event in Morioka, Japan.[16]

Rankings

World Cup

[17] 2019 2022
Lead 6 11
Bouldering 20 -
Speed - -
Combined 10 -

World Championships

Discipline[18] Youth Senior
2017
Youth B 		2018
Youth B 		2019
Lead 1 - 3
Bouldering 7 20 31
Speed 43 44 60
Combined 2 - 6

Asian Youth Championships

[18] 2017
Youth B 		2018
Youth B
Lead 1 2
Bouldering 3 4
Speed 5 20

Japan Cup

[19] 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Lead 12 2 1 1 - 2 1 1
Bouldering - - 11 4 2 7 4 1
Speed - - - - - 11 - -
Combined - - - - - 3 8 -

World Cup podiums

[18]

Lead

Season Gold Silver Bronze Total
2019 1 1
2022 2 2
Total 2 1 3

Bouldering

Season Gold Silver Bronze Total
2019 1 1
Total 1 1


Combined (Boulder & Lead)

Season Gold Silver Bronze Total
2022 1 1
Total 1 1

References

  1. ^ "Ai Mori's profile on 8a.nu". Retrieved August 20, 2019.
  2. ^ "第30回リードジャパンカップ2016 女子は12歳の森秋彩が歴代最年少優勝、男子は是永敬一郎が念願の初優勝！" (in Japanese). 14 June 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
  3. ^ "森 秋彩 Ai Mori". Japan Mountaineering and Sport Climbing Association. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
  4. ^ "Janja Garnbret Wins Fourth Straight Boulder World Cup". Gripped Magazine. 6 May 2019. Archived from the original on Aug 21, 2019.
  5. ^ "IFSC Lead World Cup Villars 2019 - Report". UKClimbing. Archived from the original on Aug 21, 2019.
  6. ^ "IFSC Climbing World Cup Villars 2019 - Lead Finals". YouTube. Retrieved 22 August 2019.
  7. ^ "IFSC Climbing World Cup Wujiang 2019 - Bouldering Finals". YouTube. Retrieved 22 August 2019.
  8. ^ "IFSC Climbing World Championships - Hachioji 2019 - LEAD Finals". YouTube. Retrieved 22 August 2019.
  9. ^ "１５歳・森秋彩、銅 野口啓代超え日本勢最年少表彰台で東京五輪望み「気持ちは前向き」" (in Japanese). Sports Hochi. 16 August 2019. Archived from the original on Aug 21, 2019.
  10. ^ "Teenage climber Ai Mori earns bronze in women's lead competition at world championships". Japan Times. 16 August 2019. Archived from the original on Aug 20, 2019.
  11. ^ Boscoe, Charlie (2 December 2019). "IFSC Combined Qualifier Toulouse - Report". UKC. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
  12. ^ Burgman, John (3 September 2022). "World Cup Upset; Garnbret Gracious in Defeat; Raboutou Makes Podium. Results". Climbing. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
  13. ^ Burke, Patrick (3 September 2022). "Mori ends Garnbret's IFSC World Cup lead dominance in Koper". inside the game. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
  14. ^ "TROIS FRANÇAIS EN DEMI-FINALE DE LA COUPE DU MONDE DE KOPER !". Planet Grimpe (in French). 2 September 2022. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
  15. ^ Creech, Hayes (12 September 2022). "Ai Mori and Jesse Grupper win lead climbing IFSC World Cup 2022 golds in Edinburgh - Results". Olympics. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
  16. ^ "Sport climbing: Teenager Ai Mori grabs World Cup gold for Japan in Iwate". Kyodo News. 22 October 2022. Retrieved 22 October 2022.
  17. ^ "Ai MORI". IFSC Results Service. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
  18. ^ a b c IFSC, ed. (August 20, 2019). "Mori's profile and rankings". Retrieved August 20, 2019.
  19. ^ "Mori's JMSCA profile and rankings". August 20, 2019. Retrieved August 20, 2019.

External links

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