Reza Alipour
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Native name | رضا علیپور شنازندیفرد | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Full name | Reza Alipour Shenazandifard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname(s) | The Greatest Asiatic cheetah | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Qazvin, Iran | 29 April 1994||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation | Firefighter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 76 kg (168 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Competition climbing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Speed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Reza Alipour Shenazandifard (Persian: رضا علیپور شنازندیفرد, born 29 April 1994) is an Iranian competition speed climber from Qazvin. He is nicknamed the "Persian Cheetah".[1]
Then in 2014, in Spain, he registered 05.97 seconds and broke his own Iranian record in speed climbing. The International Federation of Sport Climbing IFSC titled him an Asiatic cheetah. Upon setting the new world record of 5.48 seconds at the IFSC World Cup Nanjing, he was named the Usain Bolt of speed climbing.[2]
On April 30, 2017, in Nanjing, China, Alipour set a new world record; scaling a 15-meter wall in 5.48 seconds, snatching the gold medal, and shattering the previous record of 5.60 seconds held by Ukraine's Danyil Boldyrev.[3]
He has been crowned the 2017 International World Games Association (IWGA) Athlete of the Year. Alipour received 90,790 votes in the contest, with second place going to Ukrainian powerlifter Larysa Soloviova, who scored 90,036.[4]
He also finished in first place at the 18th Asian Games in Palembang in Men's Speed Climbing competition, Zhong Qixin from China won the silver medal, and bronze medal went to Indonesian climber Aspar Jaelolo.[5] Iranian speed climber Reza Alipour seat top at the latest 2018 World Ranking published by International Federation of Sport Climbing IFSC and collecting 324.68 points and Bassa Mawem of France and Dmitrii Timofeev of Russia stand next with 318.59 and 316.01 points respectively[6]
His cousin, Mehdi, also competes as a speed climber.[7][8]
On the third day of the Olympic qualifiers held in Budapest, Reza Alipour managed to qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympics by scoring 61 points in the two qualifiers of China and Hungary so as to put his name in the list of Olympic athletes.[9][10][11]
Reza Alipour of Iran advanced to the final with a run time of 5.06 seconds as the fastest elimination heat loser of the men's speed climbing in the 2024 Olympic Games.[12][13][14]
Reza Alipour finished in the fourth place in sport climbing at the 2024 Summer Olympics. He lost to his American rival Samuel Watson in the bronze medal match in Paris. Watson won bronze with a time of 4.74 seconds. Alipour finished fourth with 4.88 seconds.[15]
Reza presents at the 2016 World Cup in Wujiang, China “the Reza”, a brand new technique, trying to find a solution to this record that seems impossible to beat. Even Reza chose to skip an hold, exactly the number 4, the one at the start that brings you further away from an ideal linear trajectory. So he starts like the Classic Start but then he just goes directly to the hold number 5 and 6 with a quite big stretch obtaining a much linear trajectory instead of the classic start. At the second World Cup of the 2017 he made history by beating the old record and signing a record that will remain unbeaten for the next 4 years.[16]
World Cup podiums
[edit]Season | Location | Discipline | Place |
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2013 | Haiyang, China | Speed | 1st |
Wujiang, China | Speed | 2nd | |
2014 | Chamonix, France | Speed | 3rd |
2015 | Haiyang, China | Speed | 3rd |
Wujiang, China | Speed | 1st | |
2016 | Nanjing, China | Speed | 1st |
Chamonix, France | Speed | 3rd | |
2017 | Nanjing, China | Speed | 1st |
Villars, Switzerland | Speed | 1st | |
Arco, Italy | Speed | 2nd | |
2018 | Moscow, Russia | Speed | 1st |
Arco, Italy | Speed | 3rd | |
Wujiang, China | Speed | 3rd | |
Xiamen, China | Speed | 3rd |
Date | Time (s) | Person | Location | Competition |
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August 8, 2024 | 4.74[18] | ![]() |
Paris, France | Olympics |
August 6, 2024 | 4.75[19] | ![]() |
Paris, France | Olympics |
April 12, 2024 | 4.798[20] | ![]() |
Wujiang, China | World Cup |
April 12, 2024 | 4.859[21] | ![]() |
Wujiang, China | World Cup |
April 28, 2023 | 4.90[22] | ![]() |
Seoul, South Korea | World Cup |
April 28, 2023 | 4.984[23] | ![]() |
Seoul, South Korea | World Cup |
July 8, 2022 | 5.009[24] | ![]() |
Chamonix, France | World Cup |
June 30, 2022 | 5.04[25] | ![]() |
Villars, Switzerland | World Cup |
June 30, 2022 | 5.09[26] | ![]() |
Villars, Switzerland | World Cup |
May 27, 2022 | 5.10[27][28] | ![]() |
Salt Lake City, US | World Cup |
May 6, 2022 | 5.17[29] | ![]() |
Seoul, South Korea | World Cup |
May 28, 2021 | 5.20[30] | ![]() |
Salt Lake City, US | World Cup |
May 28, 2021 | 5.25[31] | ![]() |
Salt Lake City, US | World Cup |
April 30, 2017 | 5.48[32] | ![]() |
Nanjing, China | World Cup |
September 12, 2014 | 5.60[33] | ![]() |
Gijon, Spain | World Championships |
August 31, 2014 | 5.73[34] | ![]() |
Arco, Italy | World Cup |
August 30, 2014 | 5.76[35] | ![]() |
Arco, Italy | World Cup |
October 13, 2012 | 5.88[36] | ![]() |
Xining, China | World Cup |
August 27, 2011 | 6.26[37] | ![]() |
Arco, Italy | World Championships |
References
[edit]- ^ CBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's (CBC). "Wall climbing is an Olympic sport and 'Persian Cheetah' is the fastest at it". Retrieved 2017-05-01.
- ^ "Iranian wall climber fastest in world: CBC News". 2 May 2017. Retrieved 2017-05-02.
- ^ "More Records Broken in China!".
- ^ "Athlete of the Year 2017!". International World Games Association. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
- ^ "Reza Alipour Wins Iran's 10th Gold Medal". Tasnim News. Retrieved 2018-08-23.
- ^ "Alipour tops IFSC World Ranking in 2018". Mehr news agency. 20 November 2018. Retrieved 2018-11-20.
- ^ "سریعترین مرد عمودی آسیا و جهان: کاپ جام جهانی را میخواهم" (in Persian). Mehr News Agency. 20 September 2017. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
- ^ "عملکرد علیپورها در جام جهانی سوئیس". Iran-e Varzeshi (in Persian). Retrieved 18 July 2021.
- ^ "Iranian climber books berth for Paris Olympics". Nournews. Retrieved 23 June 2024.
- ^ "Reza Alipour Books Berth in Climbing for Paris Olympics". Nournews. Retrieved 23 June 2024.
- ^ "Iranian climber books berth for Paris Olympics". Irna. Retrieved 23 June 2024.
- ^ "Reza Alipour qualifies for speed climbing final: 2024 Paris". Tehran Times. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
- ^ "Iran's Alipour into final at 2024 Paris Olympics". Tehran Times. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
- ^ "ANOTHER DAY OF RECORD BREAKING IN LE BOURGET". Tehran Times. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
- ^ "Iranian Climber Alipour Comes Fourth in Olympics". Tasnim. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
- ^ "Speed Climbing Techniques: The Reza". Speed Climbing World. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
- ^ "IFSC Climbing".
- ^ "Paris Olympics 2024". Retrieved 2024-08-08.
- ^ "Paris Olympics 2024". Retrieved 2024-08-06.
- ^ "IFSC World Cup Wujiang 2024". Retrieved 2024-04-12.
- ^ "IFSC World Cup Wujiang 2024". Retrieved 2024-04-12.
- ^ "IFSC Speed Climbing World Records". Retrieved 2023-04-28.
- ^ International Federation of Sport Climbing [@ifsclimbing] (April 28, 2023). "A sub-5 at the IFSC World Cup in Seoul for Leonardo Veddriq" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "L'Indonésien Kiromal Katibin bat encore le record du monde d'escalade de vitesse et frôle la barre des 5 secondes". L'Équipe (in French). July 8, 2022. Retrieved July 8, 2022.
- ^ @ifsclimbing (June 30, 2022). "On 27 May 2021, the men's Speed world record was 5.48 seconds. Then Kiromal Katibin 🇮🇩 landed on planet Earth. @fpti_official" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ @ifsclimbing (June 30, 2022). "AND ANOTHA ONE!! Kiromal Katibin 🇮🇩 tears down another barrier and set a new men's Speed world Record with 5.09 seconds!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "Climbing Speed World Records Men".
- ^ "IFSC Salt Lake City 2022-05-27 Men's Speed Event Page".
- ^ "IFSC Seoul 2022-05-06 Men's Speed Event Page".
- ^ "Speed Records".
- ^ International Federation of Sport Climbing (2021-05-28), Kiromal Katibin DESTROYS the men's Speed world record!, archived from the original on 2021-12-15, retrieved 2021-05-29
- ^ International Federation of Sport Climbing (2017-05-15), IFSC Climbing World Cup Nanjing 2017 - New Speed World Records, archived from the original on 2021-12-15, retrieved 2018-07-06
- ^ Jan Kříž (2014-09-13), NEW World speed climbing record - 5.60 seconds! WCH Gijon 2014, archived from the original on 2021-12-15, retrieved 2017-05-22
- ^ International Federation of Sport Climbing (2014-09-01), IFSC Climbing World Cup Arco 2014 - Speed - Hroza Breaks World Record, archived from the original on 2021-12-15, retrieved 2017-05-22
- ^ Edyta Ropek (2014-08-30), Speed Climbing World Record by Libor Hroza, Arco, 30.08.2014 qualification round, archived from the original on 2021-12-15, retrieved 2018-02-15
- ^ International Federation of Sport Climbing (2012-10-18), Men's Speed Climbing World Record 5.88 - IFSC Climbing World Cup Xining 2012 - Speed, archived from the original on 2021-12-15, retrieved 2017-05-22
- ^ Jan Kříž (2011-07-29), World record in speed climbing 2011 (6.26 seconds) HD, archived from the original on 2021-12-15, retrieved 2018-02-15
External links
[edit]- 1994 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Qazvin
- Iranian rock climbers
- Speed climbers
- World Games gold medalists
- World Games medalists in sport climbing
- Sport climbers at the 2018 Asian Games
- Sport climbers at the 2022 Asian Games
- Asian Games gold medalists for Iran
- Asian Games medalists in sport climbing
- Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2022 Asian Games
- IFSC Climbing World Championships medalists
- IFSC Climbing World Cup overall medalists
- 21st-century Iranian sportspeople
- Iranian competition climbers
- World Games medalists for Iran
- Medalists at the 2017 World Games
- Sport climbers at the 2024 Summer Olympics