Brooke Raboutou brings silver home to Utah for USA Climbing in Boulder & Lead

In the Paris Olympics, USA Climbing's Brooke Raboutou will bring home a silver medal to Utah. Photo: Augie Roepke

PARIS — Brooke Raboutou of Salt Lake City, made history on Saturday in Paris at the 2024 Olympics claiming a silver medal in Boulder & Lead and becoming the first U.S. woman to earn any medal in the sport of Climbing.

Boulder & Lead takes half its total from a Bouldering score and half from Lead. Raboutou scored 156.0 points, with an 84.0 in Bouldering and 72.0 in Lead.
The gold medal went to Slovenia’s Janja Garnbret who successfully defended her Olympic title from Tokyo with a score in Paris of 84.4 on Bouldering and 84.1 on Lead for a total of 168.5. The bronze medal went to Austria’s Jessica Pilz with 147.4 points.

Brooke Raboutou comes from a family of accomplished climbers. Her mother and father, Robyn Erbesfield-Raboutou and Didier Raboutou, achieved world champion titles in competitive climbing and made significant contributions to outdoor sport climbing with their first free ascents. Brooke’s sibling, Shawn Raboutou, has also pursued climbing professionally, focusing on the discipline of bouldering.

USA Climbing’s home base used to be in Raboutou’s home state of Colorado until it was moved to Salt Lake City six years ago. When USA Climbing got there, it was an abandoned warehouse. After major transformations to the building, they were able to host the World Cup there this past spring.

Visionary President Mark Norman gets a chunk of the credit for Climbing’s National Governing Bodies success. He learned the ropes, all pun intended, at Park City’s Utah Olympic Park where his executive duties served him well.