Korean national team Lee Do-hyun 2025 IFSC Seoul Sports Climbing World Championships Lead Gold Medal, Korea Climbing's first medal ever!

Sep 27, 2025

Lee Do-hyun has won the world championship lead event gold medal for the first time in Korean climbing history. Courtesy of the Korea Mountain Federation

The Korea Mountain Federation (Chairman Cho Jwa-jin) announced that Korea's national team Lee Do-hyun won the men's lead gold medal and Seo Chae-hyun won the women's lead bronze medal at the '2025 IFSC Seoul Sports Climbing & Paracliming World Championships' held at Hanol Square and KSPODOME in Seoul Olympic Park from the 20th to the 28th.

The competition will be held after two years of preparations after the IFSC (International Sports Climbing Federation) general meeting in Singapore in April 2023 was unanimously confirmed to host Seoul, and it is the most prestigious international sports climbing competition involving about 1,000 athletes from more than 60 countries around the world.

Lee Do-hyun scored 43+ in the men's lead final, alongside Japan's 'YOSHIDA Saton', but scored 48+ in the semifinals to win the final title. Lee became the first South Korean to win a lead medal in world championship history and was named the world's third athlete to win a world championship medal in both boulder and lead events.

Seo Chae-hyun is playing the lead final at the 2025 IFSC Seoul Sports Climbing & Paracliming World Championships. Seo Chae-hyun won the bronze medal. Courtesy of the Korea Mountain Federation

In the women's lead final, Seo Chae-hyun won the bronze medal with a 44+ hold. Seo Chae-hyun achieved the record of winning three consecutive World Championship medals with this World Championship, and once again proved the international competitiveness of Korean climbing by ranking third in the 2025 World Cup season. This achievement shows that Korean sports climbing is sufficiently competitive on the world-class stage. Meanwhile, Janja Ganbrett (Slovenia) won the gold medal with a complete finish, while Rosa Lekar, the same Slovenian representative, won the silver medal by reaching the 45th hold.

In the women's speed final held on the 25th, Miroslav Alexandra of Poland recorded 6.36 seconds in the round of 16, 6.31 seconds in the quarterfinals and 6.20 seconds in the semifinals, winning the title with an overwhelming performance of 6.03 seconds in the final. China's Deng Lijun came in second and Zhou Yifei came in third.

He advanced to the final as the third-place finisher for the Korean national team, Jung Ji-min, and did well with calm game management and explosive speed, but lost the medal match, the 3rd and 4th place, unfortunately, and remained in 4th place. Although he failed to win a medal, it was a valuable achievement that once again proved the potential and potential of Korean women's speed climbing.

This article was translated by Naver AI translator.