Jakob Schubert
Jakob Schubert is an Austrian professional rock climber, specializing in competition climbing, sport climbing, and bouldering. He is a four-time IFSC [Climbing World Championships|World Champion] and three-time World Cup winner in lead climbing. He is a two-time Olympic bronze medalist in the combined event.
As of 2023, Schubert had won the most men's IFSC gold medals of any male competition climber in history.
In addition to competition climbing, Schubert was the first climber in the world to have both redpointed a graded sport climbing route and climbed a graded bouldering problem.
Climbing career
Competition climbing
Schubert started competition climbing in 2003 when he was twelve years old. In 2004, he participated in the European Youth Cup and World Youth Championships. Since 2007, he regularly participates in World Cup competitions for lead climbing. For seven World Cup seasons out of ten, from 2007 to 2016, he also competed in bouldering.In 2011, he won the Lead World Cup and the silver medal at the Lead World Championships in Arco. The World Cup was outstandingly obtained by winning seven consecutive competitions in that season. Previously, no climber was ever able to win as many World Cup competitions in a single season.
In 2012, he won the Lead Climbing World Championships in Paris.
In 2014, he won the Lead World Cup for the second time.
In 2018, when he was 27 years old, he became World Champion again, in his own birthplace and hometown, Innsbruck. He earned the title by reaching in the final event the same score as Adam Ondra, but a higher score in the semifinal, where he ranked second after Domen Škofic. A few days later, in the same competition, he also conquered the Combined title by ranking second in Speed, first in Bouldering, and second in Lead. In the same year, he was awarded his third World Cup.
Schubert's performance at the 2019 IFSC Climbing World Championships qualified him for a place at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, where he won the bronze medal in the combined event.
Schubert won the lead event at the 2023 IFSC Climbing World Championships, becoming the oldest world champion in the sport. He followed that up by winning the combined event, which qualified him to compete in the combined event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
He won a second consecutive bronze medal in the combined event at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Rock climbing
In 2023, Schubert became the only person in the world to have climbed the top grade in both bouldering and sport climbing.Rankings
Climbing World Championships
Youth| Discipline | 2004 Youth B | 2005 Youth B | 2006 Youth A | 2007 Youth A | 2008 Juniors | 2009 Juniors |
| Lead | 33 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Adult
| Discipline | 2009 | 2011 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016 | 2018 | 2019 | 2021 | 2023 | 2025 |
| Lead | 26 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| Bouldering | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | 2 | 27 | 12 | - |
| Speed | - | - | - | - | - | 110 | 59 | - | - | - |
| Combined | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | - |