Adam Ondra

Adam Ondra (born February 5, 1993) is a Czech professional rock climber, specializing in lead climbing and bouldering. Described in 2013 as a prodigy and the leading climber of his generation, Ondra is the only male athlete to have won World Championship titles in both disciplines in the same year (2014). He holds an analogous record in the World Cup, being the only male athlete to have won the World Cup series in both disciplines (lead climbing in 2009, 2015 and 2019, and bouldering in 2010). Ondra started climbing at the age of 6. At age 13, he climbed his first route graded . Rock and Ice magazine states that by 2011, Ondra was "onsighting 5.14c’s by the handful", and by 2013 had "more or less repeated every hard route in the world—easily". As of November 2018, Ondra had climbed 1550 routes between grades and , one of which was a , three were , and three were onsights of . Ondra is famously the only climber to have redpointed a route with a proposed grade of (Silence, September 3, 2017), the first climber to have redpointed a route with a proposed grade of (Change, October 4, 2012), the first to flash a route (Supercrackinette, February 10, 2018), and the second to onsight a route (Cabane au Canada, July 9, 2013). According to The Economist, Ondra is "regarded as possibly the best climber ever to fondle rock".