Aries Susanti Rahayu

Aries Susanti Rahayu (born 21 March 1995) is a competition climber athlete from Indonesia who specializes in competition speed climbing competitions. She has been nicknamed "Spiderwoman".^[1] She was the world record holder for women in speed climbing, which she achieved by clocking a time of 6.995 seconds at the 2019 IFSC Xiamen World Cup.^[2] Also, this made her the first woman to climb a speed wall in less than seven seconds.^[3]

Aries Susanti Rahayu

Personal information
Born	(1995-03-21) 21 March 1995 (age 30) Grobogan, Central Java, Indonesia
Alma mater	Universitas Muhammadiyah Semarang
Climbing career
Type of climber	Competition speed climbing
Medal record Women's competition climbing Representing  Indonesia World Cup (Season) 2018 Speed 2019 Speed Asian Games 2018 Jakarta–Palembang Speed 2018 Jakarta–Palembang Speed relay Asian Championships 2017 Tehran Speed relay 2017 Tehran Speed 2018 Kurayoshi Speed

Biography

As a child, she used to climb trees at home and parks.^[4] In 2007, she was introduced to sport climbing by her teacher when she was still a junior high school student.^[5]

In 2017, she competed in the Climbing World Cup for the first time and got her first medal (silver) at the World Cup in Xiamen. In the 2017 Asian Championships in Tehran, she was third in speed.

In 2018, she got her first gold medal at the Climbing World Cup in Chongqing. Then, she got one bronze in Tai'an and two more gold medals at the World Cups in Wujiang and Xiamen, all in China. At the end of the 2018 season, she was second in the overall ranking in the speed discipline. In the same year, at the Asian Championships in Kurayoshi, she was third after she false-started in the semifinal.^[6]

In 2019, she became the women's world record holder in competition speed climbing, which she achieved by clocking a time of 6.995 seconds at the 2019 IFSC Xiamen World Cup.^[2] As well, this made her the first woman to climb a speed wall in less than seven seconds.^[3]

Also in 2019, she was on the Forbes Asia's 30 Under 30 list.^[7][8]

Aries is a Muslim and wears hijab while she competes.^[9]

Awards and nominations

Award	Year	Category	Result	Ref.
Golden Award SIWO PWI	2019	Best Female Athlete	Won	[10]
	2020	Favorite Female Athlete	Won	[11]
Indonesian Sport Awards	2018	Favorite Female Athlete	Nominated	[12]
Forbes	2019	30 Under 30 Asia (Entertainment and Sports)	Placed	[13]

Achievements

Asian Games

Women's speed

Year	Venue	Opponent	Time (s)	Result	Ref
2018	Jakabaring Sport City, Palembang, Indonesia	Puji Lestari	7.612 - 7.980	Gold	[14]

Women's speed relay

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Time (s)	Result	Ref
2018	Jakabaring Sport City, Palembang, Indonesia	Fitriyani Puji Lestari Rajiah Sallsabillah	Deng Lijuan Niu Di Pan Xuhua	25.452–fall	Gold	[15]

Asian Championships

Women's speed

Year	Venue	Opponent	Time (s)	Result	Ref
2017	Mega Pars Complex, Tehran, Iran	Santi Wellyanti	9.100–10.070	Bronze	[16]
2018	Kurayoshi, Japan	Nurul Iqamah	7.816–9.717	Bronze	[17]

Women's speed relay

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Time (s)	Result	Ref
2017	Mega Pars Complex, Tehran, Iran	Puji Lestari Santi Wellyanti	Fitriyani Rajiah Sallsabillah Dhorifatus Syafi'iyah	27.97–fall	Gold	[18]

IFSC Climbing World Cup

Women's speed

Year	Venue	Opponent	Time (s)	Result	Ref
2017	Xiamen, China	Anouck Jaubert	10.150–7.780	Silver	[19]
2018	Chongqing, China	Elena Timofeeva	7.510–9.010	Gold	[20]
2018	Tai'an, China	Anna Brozek	8.860–9.170	Bronze	[21]
2018	Wujiang, China	Anouck Jaubert	7.740–8.010	Gold	[22]
2018	Xiamen, China	Iuliia Kaplina	7.532–fall	Gold	[23]
2019	Wujiang, China	Aleksandra Rudzinska	7.607–7.313	Silver	[24]
2019	Xiamen, China	Song Yiling	6.995–9.032	Gold	[25]

Other international competitions

Women's speed

Year	Venue	Opponent	Time (s)	Result	Ref
2018	The Belt and Road International, Huai'an, China	He Cuilian	7.93–8.86	Gold	[26]

World records

See also: Speed climbing § World and Olympic records

Women's World Record History

Date	Time (s)	Location	Competition
October 19, 2019	6.99[27]	Xiamen, China	World Cup

Rankings

Climbing World Cup

Discipline	2017	2018	2019
Speed	13	2	3

^[28]

Asian Championships

Discipline	2017	2018
Speed	3	3

^[29]

Number of medals in the Climbing World Cup

Speed

Season	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
2017		1		1
2018	3		1	4
2019	1	1		2
Total	4	2	1	7

^[29]