Samuel Watson

America speed climber
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroAmerica speed climber
PlacesUnited States of America
isRock climber
Work fieldSports
Gender
Male
Birth2006, Texas, USA
Age18 years
The details

Biography

Samuel Watson is an American professional speed climber and the youngest male climber to win a gold medal at an IFSC Climbing World Cup.

In 2021, Watson won a silver medal in the Youth B category of the IFSC Climbing World Youth Championships in Voronezh, Russia. In 2022, he won a bronze medal at the Youth A category of the IFSC Climbing World Youth Championships in Dallas, Texas, and won a gold medal at the Edinburgh IFSC World Cup in speed. He also won the US national speed climbing championship in 2022.

Watson is originally from Texas, and resides in Southlake, Texas. He set the current US and Pan American speed climbing records at 5.02 seconds, at the 2023 IFSC Climbing World Cup in Seoul, Korea.

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