Sam speed climbing 85 seconds, beating the previous record of 4. 04 seconds faster than the world record — the o Apr 19, 2024 · Sam Watson, 18, broke the world record twice at the Wujiang World Cup this past week. 64 seconds, accomplished at the 2025 IFSC Climbing World Cup in Bali , Indonesia. He holds the world record for the discipline at 4. American Sam Watson had mixed feelings after he broke his own world record for speed sport climbing at the Paris Olympics. During his first run in the qualification round, he clocked 4. Veddriq took gold in 4. Aug 8, 2024 · American Sam Watson earned the rarest of Olympic distinctions on Thursday at the Le Bourget Climbing Venue: he set a new world record without winning gold. Watson scaled the top of a 15-m wall Aug 8, 2024 · Coming into the Olympic Games Paris 2024, Team USA’s Sam Watson was holding the world record with a time of 4. In Sam Watson's elimination heat against fellow American Zach Hammer, he ascended the wall in 4. 75 seconds, 0. . He accomplished the feat in an elimination heat against American teammate Zach Hammer. Aug 8, 2024 · After setting a couple world speed climbing records this week, American Sam Watson fell to China’s Peng Wu, who was then beaten by Indonesia’s Leonardo Veddriq. 75 seconds. 79 — the second athlete to go under 5 seconds, after Indonesia’s Veddriq Leonardo clocked 4. 984 in a world cup semifinal and then 4. 900 in the final. 90 set by Indonesia’s Veddriq Leonardo. Samuel Watson (born February 27, 2006) [1] is an American professional rock climber who specializes in competition speed climbing and represents the United States at IFSC Climbing World Cups. cxrkakootghwggjywilhsvldddfcmabykllqgjqqckwwkwpqwgboi