Sport climbing at the Paris 2024 Olympics

Great Britain's Toby Roberts has already qualified for the boulder and lead event at Paris 2024

Sport climbing made its Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020 as one of the new urban sports at the Games.

Here is all you need to know about sport climbing at Paris 2024.

Sport climbing schedule and venue at Paris 2024

The sport climbing events run from 5-10 August. They are taking place at Le Bourget Climbing venue, which has been specifically built for the sport climbing events.

There are four medal events - men's and women's speed climbing and men's and women's boulder and lead.

The women's speed final takes place on 7 August with the men's on 8 August.

The men's boulder and lead final takes place on 9 August with the women's on 10 August.

What is sport climbing and what are the rules?

Olympic sport climbing is split into three formats - speed, boulder and lead climbing where boulder and lead combine to create one medal event and speed is a separate medal event.

In the boulder event, athletes climb 4.5m walls without ropes, aiming to complete the climb in the shortest amount of time and fewest attempts.

In lead climbing, athletes must try to make it to the top of a wall - which is over 15m with an overhang - within six minutes. Athletes are given six minutes to look at the wall before they begin climbing in order to gauge potential routes.

Points are awarded to the climber for reaching zones on the wall in lead and for completing moves or 'holds' in boulder with a maximum points tally of 200 available. Points are deducted if the climber falls off.

In speed climbing, athletes race up a 15m high wall against each other in one-on-one knockout rounds.

Who has won the most medals in Olympic sport climbing?

At the Tokyo 2020 Olympics all three sport climbing formats were grouped into one combined medal event for each gender.

Spain's Alberto Gines Lopez took gold in the men's event while Slovenia's Janja Garnbret won the women's.

Great Britain's Toby Roberts qualified for the Paris 2024 boulder and lead event in October 2023.

Teammates Erin McNeice, Molly Thompson-Smith and Hamish McArthur joined Roberts in qualifying at the Olympic Qualifier Series in Budapest from June 20-23.