Sandrine Levet Explained

Nationality:French
Birth Date:22 July 1982
Birth Place:Haute Savoie, France
Occupation:Professional rock climber
Height:170 cm
Weight:52 kg
Updated:May 1, 2019

Sandrine Levet (born July 22, 1982) is a French professional rock climber, specializing in competition climbing and competition bouldering and competition lead climbing in particular. Levet is one of the most successful female competition climbers in history. Levet dominated competition bouldering in the early to mid-2000s, winning five IFSC Bouldering World Cups, and one IFSC Bouldering World Championship. Levet was also a strong competition lead climber, finishing second three times in the IFSC Lead Climbing World Cup, which also helped her to win the overall IFSC Combined Climbing World Cup five times. As of the end of 2022, Levet had won the second-most IFSC gold medals of any female competition climber in history.

Biographic notes

Daughter of mountaineers, she started climbing when she was five years old. In the following ten years, she also practiced cross-country skiing, ski mountaineering, gymnastics and swimming.

Rankings

See also: Best IFSC results.

Climbing World Cup

Discipline1999200020012002200320042005200620072008
Lead2493221312217
Bouldering311151113322
Combined211111

Climbing World Championships

Number of medals in the Climbing World Cup

Lead

SeasonGoldSilverBronzeTotal
2001 1 2 3
2002 2 2 4
2003 2 3 3 8
2004 1 1
2005 2 1 3
20062226
Total511925

Bouldering

SeasonGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1999 1 1 2
2000 1 1 1 3
2001 4 1 5
2002 1 1
2003 5 5
2004 5 1 6
2005 2 2 4
Total 17 5 4 26

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