LUDOVICO FOSSALI

Born:5/21/97 ITALY

Bio

I loved climbing from an early age, everywhere. I tried my first shoe when I was five and have never stopped since that moment.
I tried various sports, but climbing always won over everyone and over time my main passion became sport climbing. At the age of 14, the first call-up to the Italian youth national team in the Speed specialty and the first silver medal in Chamonix in the youth B category. Since then the podiums have never been lacking: in the Youth A and juniores category I won the European Cup and conquered the bronze in the Italian Championships; in 2016, finally, gold at the world youth championships in China.
The following year, 2017, I won the bronze medal in the Arco stage and the gold in the World Cup stage in Edinburgh, where I stopped the time trial at 5''79 at the Italian record time, which I classified third in the World Cup ranking.
In Italy in the last three years I have always conquered the highest step of the podium in the Italian Speed Cup and last year the silver medal in combined. I was selected by FASI for the Olympic project and I am training for the selections. In 2018 I joined the army climbing team and set the new official Italian speed climbing record with a time of 5''783.
In 2021 I will take part into the Tokyo Olympic Games, the first for climbing.

Interview

1) Who is your favorite climbing partner and why?
My father cause I can trust him in any situation.
2) Which is the first La Sportiva shoes/boot you used?
Katana.
3) What is the mountain you would like to see at least one time in your life?
Rockland's boulders.
4) Do you take part to a charity or cultural project?
Not now.
5) What's in the air?
- Tokyo 2020
- My first 8a boulder

Highlights

2002 Started climbing
2011 Join the national team and fist Gold Medal
2017 Winner of the World Cup in Edinburgh
2017 Winner of the Italian Championship
2018 Join the Army Climbing Team

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