GB Climbing Teams
The GB Climbing Team is made up of the Senior Team, the Junior Team, the Ice Climbing Team, the Paraclimbing Team and the Ski Mountaineering Racing Team.
Team Selection
The GB Climbing Teams are selected annually and the selection is based on a number of factors primarily centred around competition results from both national and international events.
View selection policies.
Sport Climbing World Cups and Championships
The International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) runs international competitions in the disciplines of lead, speed and bouldering. The GB Climbing Team currently competes internationally in lead and bouldering and occasionally in speed climbing. The IFSC World Cup series takes place annually and the IFSC World Championships take place every two years.
View the IFSC competition calendar.
Ski Mountaineering World Cups and Championships
The international governing body for Ski Mountaineering racing (the ISMF) oversees the regulation of the sport, safety of races and runs inter-country championships and the world cup series. The GB Skimo Racing Team competes internationally in all events.
Find out more.
Watch international climbing competitions live
There is live streaming of the semi-finals and finals of all senior IFSC World Cup events. TV quality highlights are available for media use shortly after each event.
Sport Climbing at the Olympics
In 2013, the BMC supported the IFSC’s bid for Sport Climbing to be part of the 2020 Olympics. Sport Climbing was successfully chosen from amongst a shortlist of eight sports considered for inclusion in the 2020 Olympics. In the summer of 2021 in Tokyo, climbing finally reached the heights of becoming an Olympic sport for the first time. Olympian climbers at Tokyo competed in the combined event which put together the three disciplines: lead, boulder and speed climbing. Among them was British and two-time bouldering World Champion Shauna Coxsey. For Paris 2024, and beyond, speed climbing is a medal category of its own, separated from lead and speed and Molly Thompson-Smith, Hamish McArthur, Toby Roberts and Erin McNeice represented GB.
Ski Mountaineering Racing at the Olympics
Traditional ski mountaineering combines elements of - you guessed it - both skiing and mountaineering. The discipline originated in the early 1900s in the form of Alpine military patrols, as soldiers covered mountainous terrain on skis while carrying out shooting exercises. Military ski patrolling was a medal event in the 1924 Winter Olympic Games in Chamonix, France and a demonstration sport in the 1928, 1936 and 1948 Winter Olympics. While recreational ski mountaineering and long-course.
Supporting the GB Climbing Team
The BMC provides administrative support and financial help to the team, but team members have to raise money toward the cost of competing internationally for the GB Team. If you are interested in opportunities to sponsor the team or our national climbing competitions please contact office@thebmc.co.uk
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Performance Advisory Group (PAG)
GB Climbing is an internal department of the BMC, and is designated with looking after and giving future direction to all things connected with Competition Climbing and Ski Mountaineering Racing. The Performance Advisory Group or PAG (formerly Competition Climbing Performance Group - CCPG) heads up GB Climbing and is formed of a group of experts who work with, advise and plan the future of GB Climbing.