YOGYAKARTA Several Indonesian rock climbing athletes have succeeded in making achievements in the world stage. Unfortunately they rarely get media attention so their names are less familiar to their ears. However, they are very calculated in rock climbing.

Some of the Indonesian rock climbing athletes even got the fastest title in their field. Then, who are the rock climbing athletes who excel? Here's the list.

This rock climbing athlete was born in Pontianak, Kalimantan Baarat on March 11, 1997. He joined the National rock climbing team in early January 2018. However, he managed to prove himself and immediately competed in the Asian Games.

He recorded a number of achievements, one of which was being a world record-breaking in the 2021 IFSC Cup tournament. At that time he managed to record a time of 5.25 seconds in the men's speed number.

In addition, Veddriq's other proud achievement is to succeed in becoming world champion in the IFSC Villars series. The competition was held in Switzerland on July 2, 2021.

Most recently, Veddriq Leonardo managed to get the best record in the 2022 World Cup International Sport Climbing (IFSC). In the competition, Veddriq won a gold medal in the men's speed number Meidi Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

Veddriq also won the gold medal in early May in the Rock Climbing World Cup competition in Seoul, South Korea.

The following is the Veddriq biodata that was taken from various sources.

Besides Veddriq Leonardo, Indonesia also has Kiromal Katibin. He is quite taken into account in the sport of rock climbing. In fact, he is noted to have made achievements in the world stage to make Indonesia proud.

Kiromal Katibin was born on August 21, 2000 in Batang, Central Java. The first time Kiromal was familiar with rock climbing was when he was 7 years old. In 2007, Kiromal witnessed rock climbing in Batang city square during the Pre-Provincial Sports Week (Pra Porprov) event.

His interest made him decide to practice rock climbing in 2009. He practiced with his brother. What makes him love this sport is that he often meets new people and many friends. Since then he has focused on rock climbing.

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The first medal he got was Lead at the Jakarta National Championships in 2011. After that he managed to win the gold medal in the Speed number at the 2016 Bangka National Championships. He also won the Speed gold number at the 2017 Padang National Championships.

Most recently, Kiromal Katibin successfully set a new record in the qualifying round of Men's Speed IFSC Climbing World Cup 2022 which was held in Chamonix, France, on Friday 8 July 2022. On that occasion, he broke the world record of speed with a time of five 5.00 seconds with a cliff height of 15 meters.

This is not the first time Kiromal has broken a world record. Previously, he managed to set a world record with a time of 5.04 seconds when he appeared at Villars, Switzerland, on June 30, 2022.

The following is the biodata of Kiromal Katibin.

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