Sandrine Levet

Sandrine Levet

Personal information
Nationality	French
Born	(1982-07-22) 22 July 1982 Haute Savoie, France
Occupation	Professional rock climber
Height	170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	52 kg (115 lb)
Climbing career
Type of climber	Competition climbing Sport climbing Bouldering
Highest grade	Redpoint: 9a (5.14d)
Known for	Won 5 Bouldering World Cups Won 5 Combined World Cups Won a Bouldering World Championship
Medal record Women's competition climbing Representing France IFSC Climbing World Cup 1999 Bouldering Winner 2000 Bouldering 2000 Combined 2001 Lead Winner 2001 Bouldering Winner 2001 Combined 2002 Lead Winner 2002 Combined 2003 Lead Winner 2003 Bouldering Winner 2003 Combined Winner 2004 Bouldering Winner 2004 Combined Winner 2005 Bouldering Winner 2005 Combined 2006 Lead IFSC Climbing World Championships 2001 Bouldering Winner 2003 Bouldering Rock Master Winner 2002 Lead Winner 2006 Lead
Updated on 1 May 2019

Sandrine Levet (born 22 July 1982) is a French professional rock climber, specializing in competition climbing and competition bouldering and competition lead climbing in particular. Levet is one of the most successful female competition climbers in history. Levet dominated competition bouldering in the early to mid-2000s, winning five IFSC Bouldering World Cups, and one IFSC Bouldering World Championship. Levet was also a strong competition lead climber, finishing second three times in the IFSC Lead Climbing World Cup, which also helped her to win the overall IFSC Combined Climbing World Cup five times. As of the end of 2022, Levet had won the second-most IFSC gold medals of any female competition climber in history.

Biographic notes

Daughter of mountaineers, she started climbing when she was five years old. In the following ten years, she also practiced cross-country skiing, ski mountaineering, gymnastics and swimming.

Rankings

See also: Best IFSC results

Climbing World Cup

Discipline	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Lead	24	9	3	2	2	13	12	2	17
Bouldering	3	1	1	15	1	1	1		33	22
Combined		2	1	1	1	1	1

Climbing World Championships

Discipline	2001	2003	2005	2007
Bouldering	2	1	16	8

Number of medals in the Climbing World Cup

Lead

Season	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
2001	1	2		3
2002		2	2	4
2003	2	3	3	8
2004			1	1
2005		2	1	3
2006	2	2	2	6
Total	5	11	9	25

Bouldering

Season	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1999		1	1	2
2000	1	1	1	3
2001	4	1		5
2002			1	1
2003	5			5
2004	5		1	6
2005	2	2		4
Total	17	5	4	26

See also

• List of grade milestones in rock climbing
• History of rock climbing
• Rankings of most career IFSC gold medals

External links

• "Sandrine Levet". Archived from the original on 2008-10-03. Retrieved 2019-05-01.
• "Palmarès on Youtube". YouTube. 21 August 2008.