Korean sport climber Seo Chae-hyun took silver in the women’s bouldering and lead combined event at the Hangzhou Asian Games on a technicality on Saturday after the final was canceled due to rain in Shaoxing, China.
Catch a dyno in China as sport climbing makes its Asian Games return. Medals are again up for grabs as this year’s competition kicks off Tuesday.
The International Federation of Sports Climbing (ISFC) World Cup starts in Jungnang District, eastern Seoul on Friday with former world champion Seo Chae-hyun competing for Korea.
Former world champion and two-time Asian champion sport climber Seo Chae-hyun's quest to medal in the upcoming Asian Games and the 2024 Olympics is a family affair, with her father Seo Jong-kuk continuing to work as her primary coach.
Eighteen-year-old Seo Chae-hyun led the Korean contingent at the 2022 IFSC Climbing Asian Championship with two gold and a bronze medal, single-handedly accounting for nearly half of Korea’s seven podium finishes.
World No. 2 sports climber Seo Chae-hyun competes in the qualifying round of the women's lead event during the first day of the 2022 IFSC Climbing Asian Championship on Monday at Jamwon Hangang river park in Seocho, southern Seoul.
Sport climber Seo Chae-hyun secured her fifth podium finish of the 2022 International Federation of Sport Climbing season on Monday, taking second place in the women’s lead event at the Jakarta World Cup.
Seo Chae-hyun competes during the women's lead finals at the 2021 IFSC Climbing World Championships in Moscow on Tuesday.
Korea's Seo Chae-hyun was undone by a fiendish bouldering course in the women's sport climbing finals on Friday, ending the evening in last place despite redeeming herself in the final event.
Two sport climbers, Seo Chae-hyun and Chon Jong-won, are preparing for a steep ascent to become Korea’s first sport climbing Olympians at the 2020 Tokyo Games.
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