LAURA ROGORA

SPECIALITY Combined

Date of birth: 28/04/2001

Place of birth: Roma

Height x weight: 1,54 x 41

First Club: ASD Climbing Side

Club: Fiamme Oro

First Coach: Alessandro Marocchi

Coach: Christian Core

Other sports: Artistic Gymnastics

Hobby: Rock Climbing

Relationship Status: Single

Olympic Promises: Yes

Olympic Games Participation:

Esordiente

Biography

"The first time I was scared. But as soon as I touched the ground I immediately wanted to try again because I had so much fun”. This is the mix of emotions that characterised Laura's beginnings in sport climbing, a discipline that is soon to make its Olympic debut in Tokyo. Climbing since the age of 4 thanks to her father Enrico's passion, she soon fell in love with this discipline that combines strength, coordination and endurance. In order to pursue climbing she moved from Rome to Trento where she also enrolled in the faculty of mathematics, another passion inherited from her father who is a professor at the Sapienza University in Rome. For her, climbing and equations are very similar: whether it’s numbers or a route on the wall, the final objective in both cases is to solve a problem. The first Italian woman to climb cliffs with a 9A difficulty grade, she was the undisputed star of the 2019 Youth World Climbing Championship in Arco where she won the Lead, Bouldering (repeating the success of 2018) and Combined titles. At the 2019 Climbing European Championship she won the silver medal. The twenty-year-old from Rome won a spot in the Olympics after taking part in the qualifying event in Toulouse. She also competed in the 2018 Buenos Aires Youth Olympic Games.

Palmares

Print

World Championships

10a Innsbruck (AUT) 2018 – Lead
19a Hachioji (JPN) 2019 – Boulder
20a Hachioji (JPN) 2019 – Lead
48a Hachioji (JPN) 2019 – Speed
27a Hachioji (JPN) 2019 – Combinata

European Championships

6a Campitello di Fassa (ITA) 2017 – Lead
40a Campitello di Fassa (ITA) 2017 – Speed
2a Edimburgo (GBR) 2019 – Lead

Other Games

Giochi Olimpici Giovanili - Youth Olympic Games

10a Buenos Aires (ARG) 2018 – Combinata