Alberto Ginés

Alberto Ginés
Ginés at the European Championships 2022
Personal information
Full nameAlberto Ginés López
Born (2002-10-23) 23 October 2002
Cáceres, Cáceres, Spain
OccupationProfessional rock climber
Height169 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight58 kg (128 lb)
Climbing career
Competition climbing
Known forWinning the first Olympic gold in Sport climbing Combined, Men's Division, in Tokyo, 2021
Medal record
Men's competition climbing
Representing  Spain
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place2020 TokyoCombined
World Cup
Winner2025Lead
Second place2019Lead
European Championships
Silver medal – second place2019 EdinburghLead
Bronze medal – third place2022 MunichLead
Bronze medal – third place2022 MunichCombined
Updated on 5 August 2021

Alberto Ginés López[a] (born 23 October 2002) is a Spanish professional rock climber, specializing in competition lead climbing and competition bouldering. He won gold at the first Olympic sport climbing event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in August 2021. He placed second in the 2019 Lead Climbing World Cup[1] and won a silver medal at the 2019 Lead Climbing European Championship.[2]

Biography

Ginés started climbing with his parents when he was very young. In 2013, Ginés, who was 10 years old at the time, met professional climbing coach David Macià in Rodellar, after his father introduced the child to him. Macià was surprised by the attitude with which Ginés climbed the sport climbing route, El Delfín 7c+ (5.13a), and became his coach.

In 2016, after the announcement that competition climbing would become an Olympic sport at 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, he moved from Cáceres to Barcelona to train, with the goal of qualifying for the international event.[3]

In August 2017, Ginés took a silver medal at the Lead Climbing Youth World Championships, in the category Youth B. A month later, he won the Lead Climbing European Youth Championship in the same category. In May 2018, Ginés won the Lead Climbing European Youth Championship, in the category Youth A. In August 2019, he took bronze medals at the Lead Climbing and Combined Climbing Youth World Championships, in the category Youth A. A month later, Ginés also won a bronze at the Lead Climbing European Youth Championships, in the same category.

On 6 October 2019, Ginés won a silver medal at the Lead Climbing European Championships.[2] Later that month, he finished second in the Lead Climbing World Cup,[1] winning medals in two of its six events: a bronze in Kranj and a silver in the last event,[2] held in Inzai. In November, Ginés qualified to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. He won gold in the men's combined event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Rankings

Climbing World Cup

Discipline 2019
Lead 2

[1]

World Championships

Discipline Hachioji
2019		 Bern
2023		 Seoul
2025
Lead 31 24 4
Boulder 31 30 -
Combined 36 29 -

Climbing European Championships

Discipline 2019
Lead 2

[2]

Number of medals in the Climbing European Youth Cup

Lead

Season Category Gold Silver Bronze Total
2017Youth B2114
2018Youth A112
2019Youth A213
Total5139

[2]

Bouldering

Season Category Gold Silver Bronze Total
2017Youth B22
2018Youth A112
2019Youth A112
Total4206

[2]

Number of medals in the Climbing World Cup

Lead

Season Gold Silver Bronze Total
2019112
2023 1 1
2025336
2026123
Total16512

[2]

Notable ascents

Redpointed routes

9b (5.15b):

  • El Bon Combat – Cova de L'Ocell (ESP) – February 2026 – First ascent by Chris Sharma. Graded 9a+ by Ginés.[4]

9a (5.14d):

Boulder problems

8C (V15):

8B+ (V14):

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Ginés and the second or maternal family name is López.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "World Cup Rankings". IFSC. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Ginés' profile and rankings". IFSC. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
  3. ↑ "Alberto Ginés, en el olimpo". El Periódico (in Spanish). 10 February 2020. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
  4. ↑ "Alberto Ginés encadena su vía más dura con 'El bon combat'". desnivel (in Spanish). 12 March 2026.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Alberto Ginés López". Climbing History. Retrieved 26 March 2026.
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