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. He holds the world record for the discipline at 4.74 seconds, accomplished at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris , France, where he took a bronze medal.

Nov 13, 2023 · Sam Watson Is The Fastest Climber In The World, Breaking His World Record. LE BOURGET, France — Speed climbing is a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it sport. With most athletes finishing in around five seconds, it’s an event a sprinter and Spider-man would have concocted.Coming into the Olympic Games Paris 2024, Team USA’s Sam Watson w... Aug 8, …

Aug 8, 2024 · Coming into the Olympic Games Paris 2024, Team USA’s Sam Watson was holding the world record with a time of 4.79 — 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.

Samuel Watson (born 2001-09-24 in Leeds) is a professional road racing cyclist from Great Britain, currently riding for INEOS Grenadiers. His best results are winning a stage in Tour de Wallonie and winning Gent-Wevelgem / Kattekoers-Ieper.

May 6, 2024 · On Sunday (5 May), the PanAm Games champion won the speed title at the World Cup event in Salt Lake City with a time of 4.89 seconds, just shy of setting yet another new record. As he continues his preparations for Paris 2024, his first Olympic Games experience, here are some things you may not know about the new kid on the block.

Aug 8, 2024 · Sam Watson, an 18-year-old-American, set a new world record in the men’s speed climb when he completed the 49-foot tall route in 4.74 seconds. Shortly thereafter, he received...

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 · Sam Watson is leaving Paris with another world record and a bronze medal. The 18-year-old from Southlake, Texas, earned bronze in the first ever Olympic men's speed climbing event at Le...

May 18, 2023 · Samuel Watson: With a pin in Paris 2024. Watson can still remember the day that the announcement was made that speed climbing would receive its own medal at the Olympic Games in 2024. It was December 2020 and he was only 14, but – he believes – it changed his life trajectory from that moment.

Samuel Watson (born 24 September 2001) is a British cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Ineos Grenadiers. [4]