Colin Duffy (climber)
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| Nationality | American | |||||||||||||
| Born | December 10, 2003 Broomfield, Colorado | |||||||||||||
| Height | 168 cm (5 ft 6 in) | |||||||||||||
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Colin Duffy (born December 10, 2003) is an American professional climber. At age 16, he became the youngest climber to qualify to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo,[1] and the second American male climber to do so, after winning the 2020 IFSC Pan American Championships in March 2020.[2]
In 2021, Duffy won his first IFSC Climbing World Cup medal, finishing third in lead at Villars, Switzerland.[3] At the Tokyo Olympics, he advanced to the final round of the sport climbing competition and finished in seventh place.[4]
As a youth climber, he won the IFSC Climbing World Youth Championships twice, in 2017 and 2018, and finished second in 2019.[5] Duffy started climbing at age 3 before joining Team ABC in Boulder, Colorado at age 8, where he trained under Robyn Erbesfield-Raboutou and was teammates with future Olympic teammate Brooke Raboutou.[2]
In 2019, Duffy, age 15 at the time, completed two 5.14c (8c+) routes at the Red River Gorge, Pure Imagination and Southern Smoke, in one day, while also on-sighting Omaha Beach (5.14a (8b+)), before completing God’s Own Stone (5.14a (8b+)) two days later.[6] He has also topped a V14 (8B+)-grade boulder.[5] In November 2021, he climbed his first 5.14d (9a) route, Life of Villains.
References
- ^ Peters, Caroline (May 20, 2021). "17-year-old Boulder native to compete in Tokyo Olympics for USA Climbing". KOAA. Retrieved July 9, 2021.
- ^ a b Miller, Delaney (June 23, 2021). "Olympic Wildcard Colin Duffy May Be the Youngest Climbing Competitor—and the Spoiler". Climbing. Retrieved July 9, 2021.
- ^ Burgman, John (July 3, 2021). "Sean Bailey Wins Gold, Colin Duffy and Natalia Grossman Get Bronze at World Cup—On a Roll". Climbing. Retrieved July 9, 2021.
- ^ Dart, Tom (August 5, 2021). "Climbing is a hit at the Tokyo Olympics – but does it reward the best athletes?". Retrieved September 27, 2021.
- ^ a b "Colin Duffy". Black Diamond Equipment. Retrieved July 9, 2021.
- ^ "Colin Duffy, 15, Crushes at RRG with First 5.14c". Gripped. November 15, 2019. Retrieved July 9, 2021.
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