Climbing is fun! Since 2007 the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) organizes competitive sport climbing events. These events cover the disciplines of lead climbing, speed climbing, and bouldering (as well as a combined format).
Here, we focus on the available data of all IFSC bouldering competitions. In total, 50+ events with 2000+ climbers are analyzed. Who were and are the strongest competition climbers of their time? Can we find climbing styles by correlating who climbed similar boulders? Who is able to climb through qualification, semi-finals, and finals without falling off the wall? Which competitions were the hardest?
All current analyses and results are published as GitHub Pages.
We'll update the current data set and analyses after the upcoming IFSC bouldering events.
If you want to collect new data yourself, please run the collect.py script which uses Python Selenium.
Our analyses and explanations are available via the Jupyter Lab Notebook index.ipynb.
For convenience, we are using GitHub Actions to automatically generate new GitHub Pages by converting the Notebook to plain HTML via Docker after each change in the repository.
Clearly, there is still room for improvement, both regarding depth and width of our analyses as well as coding quality.
Please feel free to re-use or extend our analyses and create a Pull Request!