Oriane Bertone

Oriane Bertone (born March 10, 2005) is a French rock climber, who specializes in competition climbing, but is also noted for her sport climbing and her bouldering.

Oriane Bertone

Oriane Bertone, Giravuelta
Personal information
Nationality	French
Born	(2005-03-10) March 10, 2005 (age 20) Réunion, Overseas France
Height	164 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Climbing career
Type of climber	Competition climbing Sport climbing Bouldering
Highest grade	Redpoint: 5.14c (8c+) Bouldering: V15 (8C)
Known for	Youngest person to solve a V14 (8B+) boulder problem
Medal record Women's competition climbing Representing  France World Championships Overall 2025 Bouldering 2021 Bouldering World Cup Prague 2025 Bouldering Prague 2023 Bouldering Innsbruck 2025 Bouldering Curitiba 2025 Bouldering Keqiao 2025 Bouldering Salt Lake City 2024 Bouldering Salt Lake City 2023 Bouldering Seoul 2023 Bouldering Seoul 2022 Bouldering Salt Lake City 2021 Bouldering Meiringen 2021 Bouldering European Championships 2022 Munich Bouldering

Climbing career

Rock climbing

In 2018, when she was 12 years old, Bertone became the youngest climber to send a V14 (8B+) graded boulder problem when she solved Golden Shadow in Rocklands (South Africa).^[1] In 2020, aged 14, she redpointed the sport climbing route, Panonoramix et les cyclopes, in Saint Léger at grade 8c+ (5.14c).

Competition climbing

In 2019, she started competing in international youth competition climbing events, where she won multiple gold medals in both competition lead climbing and competition bouldering.

In 2021, Bertone made her IFSC Climbing World Cup debut at age 16 at the Boulder World Cup in Meiringen, where she advanced to the final and won a silver medal.^[2]

In 2023, Bertone won her first IFSC Climbing World Cup gold medal at the Boulder World Cup in Prague, beating Janja Garnbret in doing so.^[3] She went on to win a silver medal in bouldering at the 2023 IFSC Climbing World Championships and secure a spot for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris by placing first in the European Boulder and Lead Climbing Olympic Qualifier.^[4][5]

In 2024, Bertone finished in eighth place in the combined bouldering and lead climbing event at the 2024 Summer Olympics.^[6]

Personal life

Bertone was born in Nice in 2005, and grew up on the island of Réunion, a territory of France, to an Italian father and French mother.^{[7] [8]}

Rankings

Source:^[9]

European Youth Championships

Discipline	2019 Youth B
Boulder	1
Lead	1

Youth World Championships

Discipline	2019 Youth B
Boulder	1
Lead	1

European Championships

Discipline	2022
Boulder	3

IFSC Climbing World Cup Overall Ranking

Discipline	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
Boulder	3	6	4	10	1

IFSC World Cup

Source:^[10]

Podiums

Season	First	Second	Third	Total
2021		2		2
2022		1		1
2023	1	2		3
2024		1		1
2025	1	3		4
Total	2	9	0	11

Notable ascents

Boulder problems

8C (V15):

• Satan I Helvete - Bas, Fontainebleau (France) - 2020 ^[11]

8B+ (V14):

• Golden Shadow - Rocklands (South Africa) - 2018 ^[1]
• Super Tanker - Fontainebleau (France) - 2021 ^[12]

8B (V13):

• Psychopad - Réunion - 2017^[13]
• Le Spartiate direct assis - Réunion - 2018^[14]
• Fragile Steps - RockLands (South Africa) - 2017^[15]
• Trafic - Fontainebleau - 2018
• The master Key - Rocklands (South Africa) - 2019
• Bio Affinity - Rocklands (South Africa) - 2019
• Ray of light - Rocklands (South Africa) - 2020
• Leopard cave extended - Rocklands (South Africa) - 2020
• Agamemnon - Rocklands (South Africa) - 2020
• Fata I Helvete - Fontainebleau - 2020

Redpointed routes

8c+ (5.14c):

• Panonoramix et les cyclopes - Saint Léger - 2020

8c (5.14b):

• Chykungunya - Réunion - 2018^[16]
• Stay Kratom, stay home - Saint Léger - 2020
• Panonoramix - Saint Léger - 2020