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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349 entries on the list.

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