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Speed climbers scale a wall in under five seconds

The standard wall is 15 metres high and set at a fixed angle Two climbers race side by side on identical routes, and the world record has fallen to around 4.7 seconds for men. The holds are always in the same place, so the event rewards memorised movement rather than route reading. Timing is measured electronically to thousandths of a second. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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International Federation of Sport Climbing

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Speed climbers scale a wall in under five seconds: the short answers

Where does this come from, and can I check it?: The standard wall is 15 metres high and set at a fixed angle. The figure is taken from International Federation of Sport Climbing, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a sports fact?: Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.