Today, Le Bourget welcomed Sport Climbing’s last medal event of Paris 2024: Women’s Boulder & Lead: Final. Among the eight (8) Finalists was Team USA’s Brooke Raboutou, who finished 3rd in the Semifinal.

Raboutou found herself at the top of Boulder 1 in four (4) attempts, holding the swing for 24.7 of the 25.0 possible points. That boulder saw tops from all but two (2) competitors. Moving along to Boulder 2, Raboutou slid across slippery volumes to find the feet, and earned herself another top, again alongside five (5) other competitors.

Boulder 3 was the first to really separate the field, notably shutting down Great Britain’s Erin McNeice and France’s Oriane Bertone, who both had near perfect scores up until that point, before they could reach the 5 hold. Raboutou, however, powered through the steepest terrain of the round, reaching the 5, the 10, and then the top shortly after. The only other tops on that boulder came from Japan’s Ai Mori and Slovenia’s Janja Garnbret.

Boulder 4 was the most difficult of the round, and not a single competitor reached the top. Raboutou matched Garnbret’s score of 9.8 points.

In total, the Boulder round gave Raboutou 84.0 points and a 2nd place ranking. That put her just 0.4 points behind Garnbret, but 24.3 points ahead of the next competitor, Australia’s Oceania Mackenzie, as she shifted her focus to Lead.

The Lead route quickly returned a wide range of scores, with Korea’s Seo Chaehyun earning 76.1 points, Great Britain’s Erin McNeice earning 68.1 points, and Australia’s Oceania Mackenzie earning 45.1 points. At the time Raboutou stepped onto the stage, Japan’s Ai Mori had the best Lead score by far, earning 96.1 points as she fell lunging for the top.

Brooke earned 72.0 points in the Lead round, raising her to the top of the field while she waited for Slovenia’s Janja Garnbret to rope up. Garnbret climbed just a few moves higher, earning 84.1 points.

Once points were combined, Garnbret earned 168.5 total points. Raboutou earned 156.0, winning a silver medal for Team USA. That makes Raboutou the first U.S. woman to win an Olympic medal in Sport Climbing.

When asked how it feels to share the podium with Garnbret, who is a close friend of Raboutou’s, she said, “This was just the dream. We have an incredible friendship, where we both want each other to do our best. That’s what happened today, and it feels really good to share that with somebody.”

That concludes Sport Climbing at the Olympic Games Paris 2024. Sport Climbing will return for the Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028.

You can watch Sport Climbing on TeamUSA.com, the NBC Olympics app, and Peacock. Up-to-date schedules, as well as live results, will be available on Olympics.com.