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Born | Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Indonesia | 11 March 1997||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Type of climber | Competition speed climbing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Veddriq Leonardo (born 11 March 1997) is an Indonesian competition climber who specializes in competition speed climbing. He has held the world record for the discipline for about a year twice, first after setting it[1] en route to winning the men's speed climbing event at the 2021 IFSC Climbing World Cup in Salt Lake City, and again at the 2023 IFSC Climbing World Cup in Seoul.[2] He is the current Olympic champion, having won speed climbing in 2024. He became the first Indonesian non-badminton Olympic gold medalist.
He was first introduced to competition climbing in his first year of high school. In 2014, he participated in his first national championship in Tanjung Balai Karimun, where he was finished the top eight. In 2016, he won his first medal (bronze) in the junior national championship in Bangka Belitung. His first international event was 2018 Moscow World Cup where he placed third.[3]
Men's speed
Year | Venue | Opponent | Time (s) | Result | Ref |
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2024 | Le Bourget, Paris, France | Wu Peng | 4.75–4.77 | Gold | [4][5] |
Men's speed
Year | Venue | Opponent | Time (s) | Result | Ref |
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2022 | Sloss Furnaces, Birmingham, United States | Kiromal Katibin | 7.230–fall | Gold | [6] |
Men's speed
Year | Venue | Opponent | Time (s) | Result | Ref |
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2022 | Keqiao Yangshan Sport Climbing Centre, Shaoxing, China | Wu Peng | 4.955–5.119 | Bronze | [7] |
Men's speed relay
Year | Venue | Partner | Opponent | Time (s) | Result | Ref |
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2018 | Jakabaring Sport City, Palembang, Indonesia |
Muhammad Hinayah Rindi Sufriyanto Abudzar Yulianto |
Muhammad Fajri Alfian Aspar Jaelolo Sabri Septo Wibowo Siburian |
18.686–fall | Gold | [8] |
2022 | Keqiao Yangshan Sport Climbing Centre, Shaoxing, China |
Kiromal Katibin Rahmad Adi Mulyono Aspar |
Wang Xinshang Wu Peng Zhang Liang Long Jinbao |
FS–W | Silver | [9] |
Men's speed
Year | Venue | Opponent | Time (s) | Result | Ref |
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2019 | Pakansari Stadium, Bogor, Indonesia | Kiromal Katibin | 5.460–5.547 | Gold | [10] |
2022 | Seoul, South Korea | Lee Seung-beom | 6.04–5.91 | Silver | [11] |
Men's speed relay
Year | Venue | Partner | Opponent | Time (s) | Result | Ref |
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2019 | Pakansari Stadium, Bogor, Indonesia |
Kiromal Katibin Zaenal Aripin |
Sabri Rahmad Adi Mulyono Fatchur Roji |
fall–23.492 | Silver |
Men's speed
Year | Venue | Opponent | Time (s) | Result | Ref |
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2018 | Moscow, Russia | Muhammad Hinayah | wc–fs | Bronze | [13] |
2021 | Salt Lake City, United States | Kiromal Katibin | 5.208–fall | Gold | [14] |
2021 | Villars, Switzerland | Dmitri Timofeev | 5.329–7.35 | Gold | [15] |
2022 | Seoul, South Korea | Kiromal Katibin | 6.965–fall | Gold | [16] |
2022 | Salt Lake City (I), United States | Ludovico Fossali | 5.595–fall | Bronze | [17] |
2022 | Salt Lake City (II), United States | Tobias Plangger | 6.330–fall | Gold | [18] |
2023 | Seoul, South Korea | Long Jinbao | 5.01–5.12 | Gold | [19] |
2023 | Salt Lake City, United States | Wu Peng | 4.95–6.99 | Gold | [20] |
Men's speed
Year | Venue | Opponent | Time (s) | Result | Ref |
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2023 | Gayal Beach, Neom, Saudi Arabia | Yaroslav Tkach | 5.077–5.347 | Gold | [21][22] |
Date | Time (s) | Location | Competition |
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April 28, 2023 | 4.90 [23] | Seoul, South Korea | World Cup |
April 28, 2023 | 4.984 [24] | Seoul, South Korea | World Cup |
May 28, 2021 | 5.20[25] | Salt Lake City, United States | World Cup |
Discipline | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
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Speed | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Season | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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2018 | 1 | 1 | ||
2021 | 2 | 2 | ||
2022 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
2023 | 2 | 2 | ||
Total | 6 | 2 | 8 |