![]() Hunt in 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Woodstock, Georgia | April 1, 2003|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Education | Kennesaw State University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 173 cm (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Type of climber | Speed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Known for | United States women's speed record (6.84 sec) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Emma Hunt (born April 1, 2003) is an American competition climber who specializes in competition speed climbing, [1] and holds the American women's speed record with 6.301 seconds, set at the USA Climbing North American Cup in Salt Lake City in April 2024. [2]
Hunt finished second overall in speed at the 2022 IFSC Climbing World Cup and has four World Cup podium finishes overall. [3] She finished seventh at the 2021 IFSC Climbing World Championships. [4]
Hunt won her first senior event at the 2021 IFSC Pan-American Championships in Ibarra, Ecuador. [1] She also won the gold medal in the women's speed event at the 2022 World Games in July 2022. [5]
Hunt graduated a year early from high school and began attending Kennesaw State University in 2020. [6]
Discipline | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
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Speed | 1 | 2 | 7 |