Anak Verhoeven

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Anak Verhoeven
Anak Verhoeven
Verhoeven at the 2018 World Championships, Innsbruck
Personal information
Born (1996-07-15) 15 July 1996 (age 25)
Belgium
Height163 cm (5 ft 4 in)
Websitewww.anakverhoeven.be
Climbing career
Type of climberSport climbing (Lead)
Highest grade
Known forWinning World Games and European Championships in 2017[1]
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Medal record
World Cup
Second place 2016 Lead
Third place 2017 Lead
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2016 Lead
World Games
Gold medal – first place 2017 Lead
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2017 Lead
Belgian Championships
Gold medal – first place 2016 Lead
Gold medal – first place 2017 Lead
Updated on 13 November 2017.

Anak Verhoeven (born 15 July 1996) is a Belgian sport climber. Since 2013, she has repeatedly won the Belgian National Championship in lead climbing. In 2016, she ranked first on the IFSC World Ranking List. In 2017, she won both the World Games and IFSC Climbing European Championships.[1]

Biography[]

Verhoeven started to climb when she was 4 years old.[2] In 2012, when she was sixteen years old, she started participating in the Lead Climbing World Cup.[citation needed]

In 2014, she became the Junior European Champion at the Championships in Edinburgh.[3]

In 2015, she won the World Youth Championship in Italy, where she competed for the last time as a junior.[4] In the same year, she also participated in the Lead Climbing World Cup, where she ranked fourth.[citation needed]

In 2016, she competed at the World Championships in Paris. During the finals, she managed to top the route but fellow competitor Janja Garnbret also topped and won gold due to countback. In the same year, she also ranked second in the Lead Climbing World Cup. Verhoeven ended the 2016 competition season as number 1 on the IFSC World Ranking List.[5]

In 2017, she won both the World Games and IFSC Climbing European Championships.[1]

In September 2017 she did the first ascent of the 9a (5.14d) route Sang neuf at Pierrot Beach in France, becoming the first woman to do a first ascent of that grade.[6] Directly afterwards she established and climbed Sweet Neuf (which links Sang Neuf 9a with the 25 meter second pitch of Home Sweet Home 8c/+) and suggested a 9a+ (5.15a) rating. With this ascent she became the second woman to climb a 9a+ route after Margo Hayes and the first to claim a first ascent of a 9a+ route.[7][8] In June, 2019 did the second ascend of Sweet Neuf and confirmed the grade.[9] In December 2017, Verhoven established and climbed the 9a/9a+ route Ciudad de Dios pa la Enmienda in Santa Linya, Spain.[10] She is the first women to have put up a first ascent of a 9a, a 9a/+ or a 9a+ route.[citation needed] In November 2019 she climbed her second 9a+, Joe Mama in Oliana, Spain.[11]

Rankings[]

Climbing World Cup[]

Discipline 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Lead 34 9 4 4 2 3 11
Combined - - - - - 7 -

[12]

Climbing World Championships[]

Youth[1]

Discipline 2010
Youth B 		2011
Youth B 		2012
Youth A 		2013
Youth A 		2015
Juniors
Lead 2 4 2 2 1

Adult[1]

Discipline 2012 2014 2016 2018
Lead 22 6 2 6

Climbing European Championships[]

Youth[1]

Discipline 2012
Youth A 		2013
Youth A 		2014
Juniors 		2015
Juniors
Lead 3 2 1 2

Adult[1]

Discipline 2013 2015 2017
Lead 19 4 1

Number of medals in the Climbing European Youth Cup[]

Lead[]

Season Category Gold Silver Bronze Total
2011 Youth B 5 5
2012 Youth A 3 2 5
2013 Youth A 1 1 2
2014 Juniors 1 1
Total 10 3 0 13

[1]

Number of medals in the Climbing World Cup[]

Lead[]

Season Gold Silver Bronze Total
2014 2 2 4
2015 1 3 4
2016 2 3 5
2017 1 1 2 4
2018 2 2
Total 3 7 9 19

[1]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i IFSC, ed. (20 August 2019). "Verhoeven's profile and rankings". Retrieved 20 August 2019.
  2. ^ "Anak | Anak Verhoeven". www.anakverhoeven.be (in Dutch). Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  3. ^ "European Youth Championship Lead". nl.belclimb.be (in Dutch). Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  4. ^ "Verhoeven is wereldkampioene muurklimmen bij de junioren". sporza (in Dutch). Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  5. ^ "Anak Verhoeven klimt naar het zilver op WK". sporza (in Dutch). Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  6. ^ Anak Verhoeven (ed.). "Sang neuf 9a – First Ascent". Retrieved 7 July 2019.
  7. ^ The Outdoor Journal (ed.). "Anak Verhoeven Becomes First Woman to Establish a 9a+". Retrieved 7 July 2019.
  8. ^ Rock and Ice (ed.). "Anak Verhoeven On Making the First Female 5.15a First Ascent". Retrieved 7 July 2019.
  9. ^ planetmountain.com (ed.). "Cédric Lachat repeats Sweet Neuf, Anak Verhoeven's 9a+ and confirms grade". Retrieved 7 July 2019.
  10. ^ planetmountain.com (ed.). "Laura Rogora and Anak Verhoeven score Sperlonga and Santa Linya first ascents". Retrieved 7 July 2019.
  11. ^ planetmountain.com, ed. (9 November 2019). "Anak Verhoeven 8b+ onsight, 9a+ redpoint at Oliana in Spain". Retrieved 1 June 2019.
  12. ^ IFSC, ed. (20 August 2019). "World Cup Rankings". Retrieved 20 August 2019.

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