Angela
Eiter
Austria
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Bouldering
Date of birth | January 27, 1986 |
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Birthplace | Imst, Austria |
Age | 39 |
Nationality | Austria |
Career start | 2002 |
Disciplines | Free Climbing / Climbing Boulder / Climbing Lead |
Double lead climbing world champion Angela Eiter has won major competitions for many years.
In 2003, she took her first World Cup title and has been considered the ‘grande dame’ of climbing ever since, with accolades and records, such as six wins at Rock Masters in Italy under her belt.
Her notable performances include winning the World Games in 2005 at Duisburg in Germany, being crowned European champion in 2010, and scoring her 25th World Cup win in Italy in 2011.
She went on to claim many more victories throughout 2011, including a world championship title and returned to the 2012 Climbing World Championships in Paris to claim her fourth title. “I really don’t believe that I’ll be able to top this,” she said at the time. But top it she did.
After overcoming a serious shoulder injury, Eiter moved on to conquer 8B boulders and 9a ascents, including Hades, Big Hammer and Era Vella in Spain. And it was in Spain where the Austrian managed to top all of her career achievements: in October 2017, she made history by becoming the first woman to free-climb the notoriously challenging 9b route in Villanueva del Rosario, near Malaga, in the Andalusia region of the country.
It’s hard to describe just how difficult a challenge that is – but to put it into perspective, only two people in history, both men, had ever sent a harder-rated route.