Strongest Male Boulderers

The best male boulderers.

This list aims to list any male boulderer who has climbed 8C+ or harder. It only lists ascents at the climbers hardest grade, so each climbers has a single entry on the list.

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88 entries on the list.

# ClimberGradeClimbs
1 Elias Iagnemma 9A+ Exodia
2 Simon Lorenzi 9A Soudain Seul, Alphane, Burden of Dreams, Return of the Sleepwalker, Shaolin
3 Will Bosi 9A Alphane, Burden of Dreams, Return of the Sleepwalker, Spots of Time, Realm of Tor’ment
4 Aidan Roberts 9A Alphane, Spots of Time, Arrival of the Birds
5 Jakob Schubert 9A Alphane, Mount Doom, Shaolin
6 Sean Bailey 9A Shaolin, Alphane, Arrival of the Birds
7 Shawn Raboutou 9A Alphane, Megatron
8 Noah Wheeler 9A Return of the Sleepwalker, Shaolin
9 Hamish McArthur 9A Megatron, No One Mourns the Wicked
10 Lee Sungsu 9A Burden of Dreams, Alphane
11 Zach Galla 9A Shaolin, Return of the Sleepwalker
12 Nalle Hukkataival 9A Burden of Dreams
13 Nico Pelorson 9A Soudain Seul
14 Daniel Woods 9A Return of the Sleepwalker
15 Camille Coudert 9A Soudain Seul
16 Vadim Timonov 9A Blackflip SDS
17 Nathaniel Coleman 9A No One Mourns the Wicked
18 Adam Ondra 9A Soudain Seul
19 Nicolai Užnik 9A Mount Doom
20 Sam Richard 9A Soudain Seul
21 Ryuichi Murai 9A Return of the Sleepwalker
22 Adam Shahar 9A Return of the Sleepwalker
23 Nathan Williams 9A Return of the Sleepwalker
24 Beckett Hsin 9A No One Mourns the Wicked
25 Charles Albert 9A Charlatan
26 Makoto Yamauchi 9A Burden of Dreams
27 Drew Ruana 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Bloody Sunday SDS, Insomniac, Distortion, The Ice Knife SDS, Bookkeeping, Maxwell's Demon Low, Howl at the Moon SDS
28 Matt Fultz 8C+ Hypnotized Minds, Grand Illusion, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Brace For the Cure, Moonlight Sonata, Vecchio Leone SDS, Big Z, Deep Fake
29 Jimmy Webb 8C+ Livin' Large, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Ephyra, Off the Wagon Low, Poison the Well, Insomniac
30 Dave Graham 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Hypnotized Minds, Euclase, Fuck the System, Curve Ball
31 Giuliano Cameroni 8C+ Poison the Well, REM, Ephyra, Off the Wagon Low, Curve Ball
32 Niccolò Ceria 8C+ Ephyra, Gioia, La Révolutionnaire, Off the Wagon Low, Pneuma
33 Yannick Flohé 8C+ Off the Wagon Low, Ephyra, Return of the Dreamtime, The Story of Three Worlds
34 Austin Purdy 8C+ Insomniac, Sword of Damocles, Bookkeeping, Distortion
35 Ryohei Kameyama 8C+ No Kpote Only, La Révolutionnaire, Floatin
36 Andy Lamb 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Insomniac, Event Horizon
37 Yuta Imaizumi 8C+ Nayuta, Floatin, Off the Wagon Low
38 Francesco Berardino 8C+ Off the Wagon Low, REM, Return of the Dreamtime
39 Sam Weir 8C+ REM, Fuck the System, Poison the Well
40 Ritsu Kayotani 8C+ Nexus, Floatin, Tanpopo
41 Daisuke Ichimiya 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, United
42 Griffin Whiteside 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Howl at the Moon SDS
43 Paul Robinson 8C+ Karoshi, REM
44 Carlo Traversi 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Dark Side
45 Kazuma Ise 8C+ Hallucination, Epitaph
46 Toru Nakajima 8C+ Epitaph, Regret
47 Clément Lechaptois 8C+ Fuck the System, Permanent Midnight Low
48 Pablo Hammack 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Ear of Life
49 Florian Wientjes 8C+ Off the Wagon Low, Floatin
50 Liam Andrews-Bancroft 8C+ Insomniac, Creature from the Black Lagoon
51 Keenan Takahashi 8C+ Insomniac, The Dark Side
52 Stefano Carnati 8C+ Vecchio Leone SDS, Deep Fake
53 David Fitzgerald 8C+ Big Z, Last Line of Defense
54 Solly Kemball-Dorey 8C+ Isles of Wonder SDS, The Trident
55 Pietro Vidi 8C+ Fuck the System, Permanent Midnight Low
56 Thilo Schröter 8C+ Tsunami, Spray and Pray
57 Owen Whaley 8C+ Grand Illusion, Sosa
58 Simone Tentori 8C+ Ephyra, Deep Fake
59 Christian Core 8C+ Gioia
60 Rustam Gelmanov 8C+ Hypnotized Minds
61 Dai Koyamada 8C+ Nayuta
62 Dylan Barks 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon
63 Taylor McNeill 8C+ Moonlight Sonata
64 Sergii Topishko 8C+ Off the Wagon Low
65 Nacho Sánchez 8C+ Daños Con-Laterales
66 Colin Duffy 8C+ Bookkeeping
67 Tim Reuser 8C+ La Révolutionnaire
68 Michiel Nieuwenhuijsen 8C+ La Révolutionnaire
69 Martin Keller 8C+ Gateway
70 Lasse von Freier 8C+ Off the Wagon Low
71 Pablo Zamora 8C+ Muerte por Asfixia
72 Keiichiro Korenaga 8C+ Nexus
73 Jabee Kim 8C+ La Révolutionnaire
74 Jorge Díaz-Rullo 8C+ Muerte por Asfixia
75 Nathan Phillips 8C+ Deep Fake
76 Stefan Hochbaum 8C+ Obsidan
77 Eli Perry 8C+ Grand Illusion
78 Brian Squire 8C+ Grand Illusion
79 Hyunbin Min 8C+ United
80 Ethan Salvo 8C+ Event Horizon
81 Christopher Cosser 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon
82 Ben Hanna 8C+ Grand Illusion
83 Miles Perry 8C+ Grand Illusion
84 Austin Hoyt 8C+ The Process
85 Marco Müller 8C+ The Story of Three Worlds
86 Stefano Ghisolfi 8C+ Gioia
87 Simon Boes 8C+ Deep Fake
88 Jules Marchaland 8C+ Ephyra