Birthdate: September 3rd, 1987
Hometown: North Vancouver, Canada
Currently Living: North Vancouver, Canada
Height: 169cm (5’6½”)
Weight: 60kg (132 lbs)
Started Climbing: 1997
Sean McColl is an avid 30-year-old sport climber who has been competing for the past 20 years.
Sean’s home is in North Vancouver although he lived in France between the years of 2011 and 2016. He has been one of the head and assistant coaches for the 2009-2013 Canadian Youth National Teams. Sean has traveled to Valence (France), Edinburgh (Scotland), Imst (Austria), Singapore and Victoria (Canada) in support of his coaching interests. In 2014 and 2015, Sean’s competition and travel schedule was too hectic for him to be a major part of the Youth Team, he corresponds and helps them via correspondence.
As an athlete, Sean’s accomplishments in this sport are numerous, unprecedented and un-repeated for a climber from Canada (and even Pan America) especially since the sport has been and continues to be dominated by European climbers.
Sean was the Canadian Youth Champion in his age group ever year from 1999-2005 having won every National Championships he attended. During his youth career, Sean claimed 5 world titles; since no other youth competitor has won more titles; this achievement is unsurpassed in youth climbing history to this day.
Since Sean started competing on the World Cup circuit, he has won 5 events (2 in bouldering, 3 in lead) and been on the podium another 23 times. Sean has won the Overall Combined Rankings and has been 2rd and 3rd in the Lead and Boulder Overall rankings respectively.
As an outdoor climber, Sean has onsighted 5.14a (8b+) and climbed multiple 5.14d’s (9a). On the bouldering side, Sean is one of a dozen climbers in the world to flash the grade of V13 (8B) and redpoint V15 (8C).
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News posts and Articles featuring Sean
The day after winning the CWIF title with a gutsy performance involving contortion, multi-dynos and lots of thinking, you'd expect Sean McColl to allow himself a day off... However, keen to try out our fabled gritstone climbing, Sean ...
In this short video from Canadian competition climber Sean McColl, we see Sean training at a private wall in Chamonix, France. He takes us through his regime, with circuits, core exercises, pull ups and push ups. If you want to find out how one of the world's top...
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"This feels like a nice 3-season walking boot that Scarpa have tried to winterise, without actually making it properly crampon compatible..." say Graham Uney and Sharon Kennedy. But for largely non-snowy use, and assuming the lack of half sizes...
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