The Strongest Boulderers in the World

The best boulderers in the world

This list aims to list any 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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310 entries on the list.

Climber Grade Climbs
1 Will Bosi 9A Alphane, Burden of Dreams, Return of the Sleepwalker, Spots of Time, Realm of Tor’ment
2 Simon Lorenzi 9A Soudain Seul, Alphane, Burden of Dreams, Return of the Sleepwalker
3 Aidan Roberts 9A Alphane, Spots of Time, Arrival of the Birds
4 Shawn Raboutou 9A Megatron, Alphane
5 Sean Bailey 9A Shaolin, Alphane
6 Elias Iagnemma 9A Burden of Dreams, The Big Slamm
7 Noah Wheeler 9A Return of the Sleepwalker, Shaolin
8 Hamish McArthur 9A Megatron, No One Mourns the Wicked
9 Nalle Hukkataival 9A Burden of Dreams
10 Nico Pelorson 9A Soudain Seul
11 Daniel Woods 9A Return of the Sleepwalker
12 Camille Coudert 9A Soudain Seul
13 Vadim Timonov 9A Blackflip SDS
14 Jakob Schubert 9A Alphane
15 Nathaniel Coleman 9A No One Mourns the Wicked
16 Adam Ondra 9A Soudain Seul
17 Nicolai Užnik 9A Mount Doom
18 Lee Sungsu 9A Burden of Dreams
19 Drew Ruana 8C+ Sleepwalker, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Bloody Sunday SDS, Insomniac, Distortion, The Ice Knife SDS, Bookkeeping, Maxwell's Demon Low, Howl at the Moon SDS
20 Matt Fultz 8C+ Hypnotized Minds, Sleepwalker, Grand Illusion, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Brace For the Cure, Moonlight Sonata, Vecchio Leone SDS, Big Z, Deep Fake
21 Jimmy Webb 8C+ Livin' Large, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Sleepwalker, Ephyra, Off the Wagon Low, Poison the Well, Insomniac
22 Dave Graham 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Hypnotized Minds, Euclase, Fuck the System, Celestite, Curve Ball
23 Giuliano Cameroni 8C+ Poison the Well, REM, Ephyra, Off the Wagon Low, Curve Ball
24 Ryuichi Murai 8C+ United, Nexus, Floatin, Sleepwalker, Livin' Large
25 Niccolò Ceria 8C+ Ephyra, Gioia, La Révolutionnaire, Off the Wagon Low, Pneuma
26 Zach Galla 8C+ Grand Illusion, Sleepwalker, The Process, Sosa, Hypnotized Minds
27 Andy Lamb 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Insomniac, Sleepwalker, Event Horizon
28 Yannick Flohé 8C+ Off the Wagon Low, Ephyra, Return of the Dreamtime, The Story of Three Worlds
29 Francesco Berardino 8C+ Off the Wagon Low, Celestite, REM, Return of the Dreamtime
30 Austin Purdy 8C+ Insomniac, Sword of Damocles, Bookkeeping, Distortion
31 Griffin Whiteside 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Sleepwalker, Howl at the Moon SDS
32 Ryohei Kameyama 8C+ No Kpote Only, La Révolutionnaire, Floatin
33 Toru Nakajima 8C+ Epitaph, Regret, Sleepwalker
34 Sam Weir 8C+ REM, Fuck the System, Brain Rot
35 Dai Koyamada 8C+ The Story of Two Worlds (Low Start), Nayuta
36 Daisuke Ichimiya 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, United
37 Carlo Traversi 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Dark Side
38 Nathan Williams 8C+ Sleepwalker, Creature from the Black Lagoon
39 Pablo Hammack 8C+ Sleepwalker, Creature from the Black Lagoon
40 Kazuma Ise 8C+ Hallucination, Epitaph
41 Yuta Imaizumi 8C+ Nayuta, Floatin
42 Clément Lechaptois 8C+ Fuck the System, Permanent Midnight Low
43 Florian Wientjes 8C+ Off the Wagon Low, Floatin
44 Liam Andrews-Bancroft 8C+ Insomniac, Creature from the Black Lagoon
45 Keenan Takahashi 8C+ Insomniac, The Dark Side
46 David Fitzgerald 8C+ Big Z, Last Line of Defense
47 Solly Kemball-Dorey 8C+ Isles of Wonder SDS, The Trident
48 Pietro Vidi 8C+ Fuck the System, Permanent Midnight Low
49 Thilo Schröter 8C+ Tsunami, Spray and Pray
50 Owen Whaley 8C+ Grand Illusion, Sosa
51 Adam Shahar 8C+ Sleepwalker, The Process
52 Christian Core 8C+ Gioia
53 James Kassay 8C+ Wheel of Life Direct
54 Rustam Gelmanov 8C+ Hypnotized Minds
55 Paul Robinson 8C+ REM
56 Dylan Barks 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon
57 Taylor McNeill 8C+ Moonlight Sonata
58 Sergii Topishko 8C+ Off the Wagon Low
59 Ignacio Sánchez González 8C+ Daños Con-Laterales
60 Tim Reuser 8C+ La Révolutionnaire
61 Colin Duffy 8C+ Bookkeeping
62 Michiel Nieuwenhuijsen 8C+ La Révolutionnaire
63 Martin Keller 8C+ Gateway
64 Zander Waller 8C+ Sleepwalker
65 Kai Whaley 8C+ Sleepwalker
66 Stefano Carnati 8C+ Vecchio Leone SDS
67 Lasse von Freier 8C+ Off the Wagon Low
68 Pablo Zamora 8C+ Muerte por Asfixia
69 Keiichiro Korenaga 8C+ Nexus
70 Jabee Kim 8C+ La Révolutionnaire
71 Jorge Díaz-Rullo 8C+ Muerte por Asfixia
72 Nathan Phillips 8C+ Deep Fake
73 Stefan Hochbaum 8C+ Obsidan
74 Katie Lamb 8C+ The Dark Side
75 Jun Shibanuma 8C+ Sleepwalker
76 Simone Tentori 8C+ Ephyra
77 Eli Perry 8C+ Grand Illusion
78 Ritsu Kayotani 8C+ Nexus
79 Brian Squire 8C+ Grand Illusion
80 Hyunbin Min 8C+ United
81 Tamas Zupan 8C+ Brain Rot
82 Ethan Salvo 8C+ Event Horizon
83 Christopher Cosser 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon
84 Beckett Hsin 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon
85 Luke Gerhardt 8C+ Sleepwalker
86 Martin Stráník 8C The Story of Two Worlds, Der Mit dem Fels Tanzt, Tekuté Štěstí, Pata Ledovce, Drift, Ghost Rider, Iceberg, Primitivo, Warrior, Black Panther, Bulbasaur, Kráter, 4-Low
87 Shinichiro Nomura 8C Shambala, Orochi, Hydrangea, Babel, Byaku-Dou, Vanitas, Rokudo, Mandragora, Loca, Nehanna, Loco, Kuzan, Kusan
88 Fred Nicole 8C Monkey Wedding, Terremer, Witness the Fitness, Kryptos, Le Boa, Arzak, Chakijana, Le Poinçonneur des Lilas
89 Christof Rauch 8C Viva la Evolution, Der Mit dem Fels Tanzt, Kryptos, La Grosse Tarlouze, Sierra Madre, Stil Vor Talent, Arzak, Foundation's Edge
90 Toshi Takeuchi 8C Orochi, Asagimadara, Monkey Wedding, Vanitas, Eternal, The Singularity, Kuzan
91 Toby Saxton 8C Babylon, Golden Daze, Monkey Wedding, The Finnish Line, Arzak, Iechyd da
92 Ben Burkhalter 8C Blade Runner, The Game, Echalo, Railway, Paint it Black, Southern Drawl
93 Eliot Stephens 8C Arzak, From Dirt Grows the Flowers, The Origin SDS, Dreamtime, Zircon, The Malleus Maleficarum
94 Kim Marschner 8C Roadkill, Crystal Ship, Forgotten Gem, Peace Corps, Child of Hell, La Force Tranquille
95 Moritz Welt 8C Half-Life, Dreamtime, The Story of Two Worlds, Low Life, From Dirt Grows the Flowers, Adularia
96 Daniel Beall 8C Terremer, Rising From the Shadows, The Enigma Variation, The Wheel of Milk, The Outer Gates
97 Alberto Rocasolano Jaudenes 8C Entropia, Crisis, El Indomable, Kaizen, Kemena
98 Alex Megos 8C Montecore, Lucid Dreaming, Monkey Wedding, The Finnish Line, Upgrade U
99 Ned Feehally 8C The Big Island, The Last Anasazi, Sine Language, Underwave, Serenata
100 Akira Waku 8C Hydrangea (Pre 2016 Break), Hyper Ballad, Babel, Hydrangea, Dendrobium
101 Alex Khazanov 8C Monkey Wedding, The Story of Two Worlds, Dreamtime, From Dirt Grows the Flowers, La Force Tranquille
102 Loïc Derby 8C La Picharrête, The Big Island, Juneru, Le Pied à Coulisse, La Valse aux Adieux (Prolongé)
103 Anthony Gullsten 8C The Big Island, Quoi de Neuf, Silver Lining, Stil Vor Talent
104 James Squire 8C The World is Yours, Spray of Light, Ambition, Paradise Found
105 Jesús Muñoz 8C La Legión, Entropia, Lemento Sit, El Sith Elegido
106 Tristan Chen 8C Paint it Black, Dreamtime, Pegasus, Desperanza
107 Nick Bradley 8C Paint it Black, Delirium, The Game, Railway
108 Naoki Shimatani 8C Babel, Mandragora, G-Master, The Finnish Line
109 Hugo Martin 8C El Indomable, Solozabal, Juneru, Power of Now Direct
110 Stefano Ghisolfi 8C Anam Cara Low, Hazel Grace, Adularia, Flow State
111 Jules Marchaland 8C Foundation's Edge, Big Nose, Power of Now Direct, Titan Assis
112 Bernd Zangerl 8C Viva la Evolution, From Dirt Grows the Flowers, Shantaram
113 Michael Piccolruaz 8C La Grosse Tarlouze, The Smile, Sierra Madre
114 Martin Mobråten 8C Shantaram, Spray of Light, Desesparicion
115 Nico Januel 8C Le Pied à Coulisse, Le Dernier Fléau, The Big Island
116 Luis Gerhardt 8C The Story of Two Worlds, Der Mit dem Fels Tanzt, Juneru
117 Manu Cornu 8C Quoi de Neuf, Le Pilier du Désert (assis), The Big Island
118 Giani Clement 8C The Story of Two Worlds, La Grosse Tarlouze, Stil Vor Talent
119 Nicholas Milburn 8C Southern Drawl, The Game, Paint it Black
120 Jonas Winter 8C Dreamtime, La Rustica, Le Pilier du Désert (assis)
121 Juan Alonso Mancera 8C Hell Boy, Entropia, Street Fighter
122 Elias Krüger 8C Dreamtime, From Dirt Grows the Flowers, The Big Island
123 Austin Hoyt 8C Monkey Wedding, The Big Bad Wolf, Lucid Dreaming
124 Štěpán Volf 8C Warrior, The Story of Two Worlds, Valašský Express
125 Jakub Konečný 8C Sviní Ponor, Drift, Iceberg
126 Giovanni Placci 8C 4-Low, Captain Nemo, Flow State
127 Nicholas Allan 8C Khoikhoi, Whiplash, Spray of Light
128 Markus Bock 8C Gossip, Montecore
129 Thomas Willenberg 8C Transcendance, Shiva (pre-2016)
130 Sébastien Frigault 8C Satan i Helvete Assis (pre-December 2013), Le Dernier Fléau
131 Fabian Christof 8C Bongo, Montecore
132 Jernej Kruder 8C The Story of Two Worlds, La Rustica
133 Guillaume Glairon-Mondet 8C The Big Island, Le Pied à Coulisse
134 Rubén Díaz Torres 8C Kemena, Juneru
135 Fabian Buhl 8C Dreamtime, Le Boa
136 Gabriele Moroni 8C The Story of Two Worlds, Ziqqurat
137 Sachi Amma 8C Hydrangea (Pre 2016 Break), Asagimadara
138 Nils Favre 8C From Dirt Grows the Flowers, Bokassa's Fridge
139 Mike Adams 8C Serenata, Serenataon
140 Jonatan Flor 8C Crisis, Juneru
141 Facundo Langbehn 8C The Nest, Alma
142 Théo Chappex 8C Méithra, Ten Criminals
143 Dylan Chuat 8C Foundation's Edge, Big Nose
144 Stefan Scarperi 8C Big Illusion, Monkey Wedding
145 Moritz Perwitzschky 8C Low Life, Dreamtime
146 Takuya Nakajima 8C Babel, Hydrangea
147 Stephan Vogt 8C Stil Vor Talent, The Big Island
148 Everett Sloane 8C Variant, Traffic
149 Alexey Rubtsov 8C Focus Failed, Low Priora
150 Yves Gravelle 8C Low Miall's, So What
151 Sergei Skorodumov 8C Hungry Dog, Petrichor
152 Tomoa Narasaki 8C Asagimadara, Ashuradō
153 Rob Denayer 8C The Big Island, Le Pied à Coulisse
154 Marco Müller 8C Dreamtime, The Story of Two Worlds
155 James Pearson 8C Juneru, Mystic River
156 Zach Wilson 8C Sound of Violence, Pegasus
157 Patrick Vonbrül 8C Arzak, Le Boa
158 Lucas Uchida 8C The Singularity, Zazen
159 Ethan Pringle 8C The Outer Limits, The Nest
160 Samuel Richard 8C The Big Island, Power of Now Direct
161 Sam Blackwell 8C Paradise Found, Trance
162 Sam Prior 8C Serenata, Trance
163 Yannis Gautier 8C Monkey Wedding, Foundation's Edge
164 Piotr Oleszczuk 8C Spray of Light, Petrichor
165 Mejdi Schalck 8C The Big Island, La Force Tranquille
166 Davide Bassotto 8C Dreamtime, Crystal Ship
167 Gianin Regli 8C The Story of Two Worlds, Adularia
168 Bruce Zou 8C The Game, Pegasus
169 Arthur Ternant 8C The Finnish Line, Titan Assis
170 David Firnenburg 8C The Smile, Monkey Wedding
171 Paul Nadler 8C Monkey Wedding, Monkey Wedding
172 Philip Moser 8C L'Anarchiste
173 Bernhard Schwaiger 8C Zunami
174 Hermann Schwaiger 8C Zunami
175 Mauro Calibani 8C Tonino '78
176 Julien Nadiras 8C Tonino '78
177 Chris Sharma 8C Witness the Fitness
178 Antoine Vandeputte 8C Tonino '78
179 Toni Lamprecht 8C Bokassa's Fridge
180 Tim Clifford 8C The Singularity
181 Shawn Diamond 8C Le Dernier Fléau
182 Rémy Bergasse 8C Quoi de Neuf
183 Markus Windisch 8C Gossip
184 Tyler Landman 8C Satan i Helvete Assis (pre-December 2013)
185 Franz Widmer 8C Kryptos
186 Vincent Pochon 8C The Big Island
187 Tokio Muroi 8C Asagimadara
188 Romain Desgranges 8C Kaiser Sauzé
189 Lucas Ménégatti 8C The Big Island
190 Iban Larrión 8C Airian
191 Manuel Brunn 8C Montecore
192 Taylor Parsons 8C Desperanza
193 Arjan de Kock 8C The Big Island
194 Klem Loskot 8C Zunami
195 Jon Cardwell 8C The Game
196 Jan Hojer 8C The Big Island
197 Chris Schulte 8C The Big Island
198 Motofumi Nagao 8C Hydrangea (Pre 2016 Break)
199 Makoto Yamauchi 8C Orochi
200 Sam Davis 8C Desperanza
201 Kazuma Watanabe 8C Eternal
202 Sébastien Bouin 8C Quoi de Neuf
203 Pirmin Bertle 8C Mediomalomania
204 Łukasz Dudek 8C Obsesja
205 Alban Levier 8C Quoi de Neuf
206 Simon Parton 8C Terremer
207 Ignacio Mulero 8C Entropia
208 Dawid Skoczylas 8C Serenata
209 Chon Jongwon 8C Asagimadara
210 Ashima Shiraishi 8C Horizon
211 Kevin Heiniger 8C Kryptos
212 Florian Schmalzl 8C Sierra Madre
213 Katrin Lehmann 8C Kryptos
214 Alfons Dornauer 8C Sierra Madre
215 Guntram Jörg 8C Arzak
216 Carlos Ruano 8C Lemento Sit
217 Mishka Ishi 8C Byaku-Dou
218 Daniel Fong 8C Paint it Black
219 Matty Hong 8C Dreamtime
220 Michael Duffy 8C Metropolis
221 Teo Genecand 8C Foundation's Edge
222 Mathew Wright 8C Serenata
223 Nathan Michel 8C The Big Island
224 Lucien Martinez 8C The Big Island
225 Tanner Bauer 8C Traffic
226 Killian Charbier 8C The Big Island
227 Jon Glassberg 8C The Nest
228 John Cohee 8C Ebony and Ivory
229 Benjamin Nicolas 8C Méithra
230 Marcello Bombardi 8C Ziqqurat
231 Ángel Espinosa 8C Entropia
232 Alex Rohr 8C Mediomalomania
233 Philipp Geisenhoff 8C Le Poinçonneur des Lilas
234 Olivier Lebreton 8C The Big Island
235 Léo Favot 8C The Big Island
236 Carl Nilsask 8C Den Nattliga Havsfärden
237 Felipe Camargo 8C Dreamtime
238 Sami Koponen 8C Silver Lining
239 Antoine Girard 8C The Finnish Line
240 Eric Jerome 8C Forever Endeavor
241 Stefan Scherz 8C Sierra Madre
242 Christoph Schweiger 8C The Big Island
243 Emil Abrahamsson 8C The Story of Two Worlds
244 Giacomo Raimondi 8C Nim
245 Orrin Coley 8C Ultra Instinct
246 Hugo Parmentier 8C Le Pied à Coulisse
247 Jana Švecová 8C Nova
248 Thomas Salakenos 8C Foundation's Edge
249 Jonny Kydd 8C The World is Yours
250 Piotr Schab 8C Monkey Wedding
251 Leo Skinner 8C Paradise Found
252 Sam Avezou 8C The Big Island
253 Brooke Raboutou 8C Box Therapy
254 Andre Branchizio 8C Paint it Black
255 Benjamin Blaser 8C Dreamtime
256 Paul-Martin Luc 8C Den Nattliga Havsfärden
257 Lilian Bonniot 8C The Big Island
258 Palmer Larsen 8C The Nest
259 Simon Boes 8C In Search of Time Lost
260 Janja Garnbret 8C Bügeleisen SDS
261 Samuel Hsin 8C Paint it Black
262 Lukas Mayerhofer 8C Anam Cara Low
263 Ben Bransby 8C Big Leviathan Extended (Sans Resin)
264 Alex Barrows 8C Pretence of Youth
265 Tim Würthner 8C La Grosse Tarlouze
266 Marine Thevenet 8C Juneru
267 Austin Geiman 8C Defying Gravity
268 Michaela Kiersch 8C Dreamtime
269 Tanguy Merard 8C Nova
270 Max Milne 8C Forgotten Gem
271 Simone Mabboni 8C Flow State
272 Jérémy Bonder 8C Le Pied à Coulisse
273 Diego Fourbet 8C Dreamtime
274 Georg Parma 8C Forgotten Gem
275 Matisse Almira-Colcombet 8C Juneru
276 Théo Charmasson 8C Le Dernier Fléau
277 Guillaume Mignard 8C The Big Island
278 Ben Blackmore 8C Paint it Black
279 Marius Larrieu 8C Lemento Sit
280 Isaac Dunk 8C Trap King
281 Mark Brand 8C The Big Island
282 Billy Ridal 8C The Big Island
283 Pete Dawson 8C Trance
284 Eli Cartwright 8C Trance
285 Kristóf Modrián 8C Nova
286 Bryce Viola 8C The Youngster's Roof
287 Kokoro Fujii 8C Death's End
288 Niki Rusev 8C Spray of Light
289 Luca Bertacco 8C Flow State
290 Dom Speranza 8C G-Master
291 Mathieu Ternant 8C Monkey Wedding
292 Jakub Fábric 8C G-Master
293 Felipe Ho Foganholo 8C Gotham City
294 Luke Eberhard 8C Parzival
295 Matteo Marrocchi 8C Flow State
296 Thorben Bloem 8C The Big Island
297 Filip Schenk 8C Flow State
298 Danny Popowski 8C The Singularity
299 Cesar Grosso 8C Flow State
300 Will Anglin 8C Variant
301 Jean-Pierre Bouvier 8C La Valse aux Adieux (Prolongé)
302 Elijah Kiser 8C That Hideous Strength
303 Robert Girard 8C Le Voyage Éternel
304 John Brock 8C The Nest
305 Ian Dory 8C Paint it Black
306 Thomas Fichtinger 8C Kolumbusfalter
307 Miles Perry 8C Sound of Violence
308 Ray Hansen 8C Sound of Violence
309 Wes Walker 8C Ego Death
310 Jake Scharfman 8C G-Master