Ao Yurikusa
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nationality | Japanese | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | September 21, 2002 Aichi, Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Professional sport climber | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Climbing career | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ao Yurikusa (百合草 碧皇, Yurikusa Ao, born September 21, 2002) is a Japanese professional rock climber, specializing in competition climbing.
Climbing career
[edit]Competition climbing
[edit]In August 2019, Yurikusa won the gold medals in the boulder and combined disciplines at the World Youth Championships in Arco.[1] He also claimed the silver medal in the boulder discipline at the 2019 Asian Youth Championships.[2]
The 2022 season saw Yurikusa win multiple Lead World Cup medals — silver at the Innsbruck Lead World Cup and his first World Cup gold medal in Jakarta.[3][4] Yurikusa finished the season in 4th place in the overall Lead World Cup ranking.[5]
In 2023, Yurikusa was a finalist at the 2023 IFSC Climbing World Championships, placing 5th in Lead.[6]
In 2025, Yurikusa won the Lead gold medal at the 2025 Asian Cup held in Almaty.[7]
Rankings
[edit]| Discipline[8] | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lead | 22 | 4 | 12 | 11 |
World Championships
[edit]| Discipline | Bern 2023 |
|---|---|
| Lead | 5 |
| Bouldering | 49 |
| Boulder & Lead | 10 |
| Discipline | 2019 Youth A[9] |
|---|---|
| Lead | 4 |
| Bouldering | 1 |
| Combined | 1 |
References
[edit]- ↑ "IFSC Youth World Championships - Arco (ITA) 2019 Boulder Final results". Retrieved 3 September 2025.
- ↑ "Asian Youth Championships - Bengaluru (IND) 2019 - Boulder Youth A Male Final results". Retrieved 3 September 2025.
- ↑ "Classy climbers Janja Garnbret and Colin Duffy win lead titles at IFSC World Cup 2022 in Innsbruck". Olympics. Retrieved 3 September 2025.
- ↑ "Lead World Cup Jakarta: Ao Yurikusa and Janja Garnbret take gold". Lacrux. Retrieved 3 September 2025.
- ↑ "A Recap of the 2022 IFSC Climbing World Cup Season". Gripped. Retrieved 3 September 2025.
- ↑ "IFSC World Championships Bern 2023". IFSC. Retrieved 3 September 2025.
- ↑ "IFSC Asian Cup Almaty 2025". IFSC. Retrieved 3 September 2025.
- ↑ "AO YURIKUSA". IFSC Results Service. Retrieved 3 August 2025.
- ↑ "IFSC Youth World Championships - Arco (ITA) 2019". IFSC. Retrieved 3 August 2025.
External links
[edit]- Ao Yurikusa at World Climbing
- Ao Yurikusa on Instagram
- JMSCA profile (in Japanese)