GB Climbing Teams
The GB Climbing Team is made up of the Senior Team, the Junior Team, the Ice Climbing Team, the Ski Mountaineering Team and Paraclimbing Team.
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Team Selection
The GB Climbing Teams are selected annually and the selection is based on a number of factors primarily centred around competition results from both national and international events.
Sport Climbing World Cups and Championships
The International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) runs international competitions in the disciplines of lead, speed and bouldering. The GB Climbing Team currently competes internationally in lead and bouldering and occasionally in speed climbing. The IFSC World Cup series takes place annually and the IFSC World Championships take place every two years. View the IFSC competition calendar.
Watch international climbing competitions live
There is live streaming of the semi-finals and finals of all senior IFSC World Cup events. TV quality highlights are available for media use shortly after each event.
Sport Climbing at the Olympics
In the summer of 2021 in Tokyo, climbing finally reached the heights of becoming an Olympic sport for the first time. Olympian climbers at Tokyo competed in the combined event which put together the three disciplines: lead, boulder and speed climbing. Among them was British and two-time bouldering World Champion Shauna Coxsey. For Paris 2024, and beyond, speed climbing is a medal category of its own, separated from lead and speed and Molly Thompson-Smith, Hamish McArthur, Toby Roberts and Erin McNeice represented GB.
How we got there:
In 2013, the BMC supported the IFSC’s bid for Sport Climbing to be part of the 2020 Olympics. Sport Climbing was successfully chosen from amongst a shortlist of eight sports considered for inclusion in the 2020 Olympics.
Meanwhile the UIAA (International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation) is preparing to launch a bid for Ice Climbing to enter the 2022 Winter Olympics once the IOC criteria for adding new winter sports is finalised. This follows its inclusion in the cultural programme at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia 2014.
Supporting the GB Climbing Team
The BMC provides administrative support and financial help to the team, but team members have to raise money toward the cost of competing internationally for the GB Team. If you are interested in opportunities to sponsor the team or our national climbing competitions please contact office@thebmc.co.uk
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Competition Climbing Performance Group (CCPG)
GB Climbing is an internal department of the BMC, and is designated with looking after and giving future direction to all things connected with Competition Climbing. The Competition Climbing Performance Group (CCPG) heads up GB Climbing and is formed of a group of experts who work with, advise and plan the future of GB Climbing.