2025 para climbing season to feature world championships and three world cups

The four-year cycle leading up to the Los Angeles Paralympic Games 2028 will kick-off with an action-packed Para Climbing season 2025, which will include World Cup events in the USA, Austria, and France, also featuring the Para Climbing World Championships in Seoul, South Korea.

Scheduled to take place on 20th and 21st May in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, the Para Climbing season opener will take place shortly before the fourth Climbing World Cup.

 It will be the fifth consecutive season with a Para Climbing World Cup event in US territory. Initially held in Los Angeles, California, in October 2021, the event has then moved to Salt Lake City for the three following years, and the number of registered athletes has grown by 157% in three years.

Another landmark in the Para Climbing calendar is the World Cup in Innsbruck, Austria.

Set to happen on 23rd and 24th June, the event has set the record for the highest number of registered athletes in 2024, breaking the 200-climber mark for the first time in the history of the Para Climbing World Cup Series.

The most anticipated event of 2024 will see the best para climbers in the world travel to Seoul, South Korea, for the first-ever Para Climbing World Championships taking place outside of Europe.

The final Para Climbing event of 2025 is scheduled in Laval, France, where a third World Cup is expected to take place in late October.  Dates of Para Climbing competitions in Seoul and Laval will be made official at a later stage.

Image: Lucia Capovilla of Italy competes at the IFSC Para Climbing World Cup Innsbruck 2024. Credit:  Lena Drapella/IFSC.