Brooke Raboutou
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| Born | April 9, 2001 Boulder, Colorado, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Education | University of San Diego (2023) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Rock climber | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 157 cm (5 ft 2 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Brooke Raboutou (/ˈræbətuː/ RAB-ə-too; born April 9, 2001)[2] is an American professional rock climber who specializes in competition climbing (lead and boulder), sport climbing and bouldering. She is an Olympic silver medalist in the combined bouldering and lead climbing event (2024). She is the first-ever woman to redpoint a 5.15c (9b+) graded sport-climbing route with her 2025 ascent of Excalibur.
Both of Raboutou's parents, Didier Raboutou and Robyn Erbesfield-Raboutou, are former world champion competition climbers and leading outdoor sport climbers with notable first free ascents.[3] Her brother, Shawn Raboutou, is a professional rock climber who specializes in bouldering.
Raboutou attended the University of San Diego and was a member of Gamma Phi Beta Sorority.[citation needed]
Climbing career
Rock climbing
At age 9, she climbed a V10 (7C+) boulder, and became the youngest woman to climb a 5.13b (8a) sport climbing route. At 10, she sent a V11 (8A) boulder and became the youngest woman to climb a 5.13d (8b) sport climbing route. At 11, she became the youngest woman to send a 5.14b (8c) sport climbing route.[4][5][6][7]
In October 2023, she made the second female ascent of Box Therapy, a V16 (8C+) boulder, and proposed a downgrade to V15 (8C).[8][9]
In April 2025, she made the first female ascent of Excalibur, a 5.15c (9b+) sport climbing route.[10] In doing so, she became the first woman to ever climb a sport climbing route at that grade.[11]
Competition climbing
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Raboutou was at the University of San Diego in 2018 before taking time off to prepare for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo,[12] where she finished in 5th place in the combined event.[13]
In April 2023, she won the IFSC Boulder World Cup in Hachioji, Japan, claiming her first ever IFSC Climbing World Cup gold medal.[14][15]
In 2024, Raboutou placed first in the rankings of the boulder and lead combined event at the Olympic Qualifier Series, securing a spot for the combined event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.[16]
Raboutou won the silver medal in the combined event at the 2024 Summer Olympics,[17] becoming the first American woman to win an Olympic medal in sport climbing.[18]
Rankings
World Cups
Season rankings
| Discipline | 2018 | 2019 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
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| Lead | 58 | 46 | 17 | 5 | 15 | – |
| Bouldering | 49 | 55 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 29 |
| Speed | 70 | 73 | 21 | – | – | – |
Podiums
Bouldering [20]
| Season | First | Second | Third | Total |
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| 2021 | – | – | 2 | 2 |
| 2022 | – | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Total | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 |
Lead [20]
| Season | First | Second | Third | Total |
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| 2021 | – | 1 | – | 1 |
| 2022 | – | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2023 | – | – | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | – | – | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
Climbing World Championships
Youth[20]
| Discipline | 2016 Youth B |
2017 Youth A |
2018 Youth A |
2019 Juniors |
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| Lead | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Bouldering | 3 | 3 | 6 | – |
| Speed | 17 | 28 | 18 | – |
| Combined | 1 | 2 | – | – |
Senior
| Discipline | 2019 Hachioji |
2021 Moscow |
2023 Bern |
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| Lead | 15 | 5 | 5 |
| Bouldering | 41 | 5 | 3 |
| Speed | 24 | – | – |
| Combined | 9 | – | 4 |
