Mina Markovič

Mina Markovič

Mina Markovič in the semi-finals of the World Cup in bouldering in Vienna on 29 May 2010
Personal information
Nationality	Slovenia
Born	November 23, 1987 Maribor
Residence	Ljubljana, Slovenia[1]
Height	161 centimetres (5 ft 3 in)[1]
Website	minamarkovic.blogspot.com
Climbing career
Type of climber	Sport climbing, Bouldering
Highest grade	On-sight: 8b+ (5.14a)[1]
Medal record World Games 2013 Cali Lead IFSC European Championships 2013 Chamonix Lead 2013 Eindhoven Bouldering 2008 Paris Lead IFSC Climbing World Cup Winner 2011 Lead Winner 2011 Overall Winner 2012 Lead Winner 2012 Overall
Updated on 2 September 2013.

Mina Markovič, born 23 November 1987 in Maribor, Slovenia, is a professional climber. She is mainly active in climbing competitions and participates in the World Cup and World Championships in lead climbing and bouldering.

Biography

Markovič began competing in 2001, and participated in the Junior European Cup in lead climbing as well as the World Junior Championships in Imst where she placed 5th in lead and 22nd in speed climbing. In 2003, she stopped competing in speed climbing, although she continues competition in lead.

Between 2004 and 2006, Markovič participated in the adult climbing World Cup and managed to rank 5th in step with Kranj in Slovenia.^[2] In addition to adult competitions, she continued to participate in the lead climbing European Cup Junior and finished first at many stages, allowing her to win the cup in 2005.^[3]

As of 2009, she participated in the climbing world cup block and the world championships in three disciplines: speed, difficulty and bouldering. In September, at the Rock Master in Arco, she finished 2nd behind Angela Eiter.^[4]

In 2011, she decided to participate in most of the stages of the World Cup in both lead and bouldering. In bouldering she ended her season in 5th place,^[5] despite a victory in the final stage in Munich.^[6] In lead she achieved her great success: she finished third in Puurs, second at Briançon and Boulder and first in Chamonix, Xining, Changzhi, Amman, and Barcelona. These results enable her to win the Lead World Cup 2011 over Jain Kim and Maja Vidmar.^[7]

In 2012 she won her second Lead World Cup (three victories and four second places)^[8] and took the fourth place in the Bouldering World Cup.^[9]

She has also won the World Cup Overall title in 2011^[10] and 2012.^[11]

Awards

• 2013 Salewa Rock Award^[12]

References

1. "Mina Markovic". La Sportiva. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
2. "General result Women lead: UIAA Worldcup (L) – Kranj (SLO) 2005". www.ifsc-climbing.org. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
3. "European Youth Cup 2005 - female juniors". www.ifsc-climbing.org. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
4. "Results Rock Master 2009". www.rockmaster.com. 5 September 2009. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
5. "IFSC Bouldering Worldcup 2011 after the last stage". www.ifsc-climbing.org. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
6. "General result Women bouldering: IFSC Climbing Worldcup (B) – Munich (GER) 2011". www.ifsc-climbing.org. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
7. "IFSC Lead Climbing Worldcup 2011 after the last stage". www.ifsc-climbing.org. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
8. Franz Schiassi (19 November 2012). "Mina Markovic and Sachi Amma win the Lead World Cup 2012". planetmountain.com. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
9. "Rustam Gelmanov and Anna Stöhr win Bouldering World Cup 2012". planetmountain.com. 27 August 2012. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
10. "IFSC Climbing Worldcup 2011 Women overall". digitalrock.de. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
11. "IFSC Climbing Worldcup 2012 Women overall". digitalrock.de. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
12. Vinicio Stefanello (7 September 2013). "Adam Ondra and Mina Markovic win Arco Rock Legends 2013". planetmountain.com. Retrieved 7 September 2013.

External links

• IFSC Profile