# Mina Markovič

Mina Markovič is a professional rock climber who specialized in competition climbing, from which she is now retired. She competed in the World Cup and World Championships in competition lead climbing, competition bouldering, and competition speed climbing, obtaining her best results in lead. She also climbs on outdoor sport climbing routes where she has redpointed to 9a (5.14d).

## Biography

Markovič began competing in 2001 and participated in the European Youth Cup in competition lead climbing as well as the World Youth Championships in Imst where she placed 5th in lead and 22nd in competition speed climbing.
In 2004, Markovič started competing in the adult category at the Climbing World Cup in lead climbing. In 2006, she won a silver and a bronze medal in two stages of that competition. In addition to adult competitions, she continued to participate in the Lead Climbing European Youth Cup, which she won in 2005.
In September 2009, at the Rock Master in Arco, she finished 2nd behind Angela Eiter.
In 2009, 2011, and 2014, she competed at the IFSC World Championships in three disciplines: lead, bouldering, and speed. From 2009 to 2014, she participated in most of the stages of the IFSC World Cup in lead and bouldering, where she obtained the combined title in 2011, 2012, and 2013, due to high rankings in both disciplines.
In 2011, she won her first lead climbing World Cup over Jain Kim and Maja Vidmar, by finishing third in Puurs, second at Briançon and Boulder and first in Chamonix, Xining, Changzhi, Amman, and Barcelona.
In 2012, she won her second lead climbing World Cup (with three victories, and four second places)
In 2015, she earned both the lead climbing gold medal at the IFSC World Cup and the European Championships.

## Rankings
### Climbing World Championships

Youth
| Discipline | 2001 Youth B | 2002 Youth B | 2003 Youth A | 2004 Youth A | 2005 Juniors | 2006 Juniors |
| Lead | 5 | 28 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 5 |
| Speed | 22 | 11 | - | - | . | . |
Adult
| Discipline | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016 |
| Lead | 26 | 19 | 18 | 6 | - | 2 | 3 |
| Bouldering | - | - | 4 | 12 | - | 9 | - |
| Speed | - | - | 33 | 50 | - | 34 | - |
| Combined | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - |

### Climbing World Cup

| Discipline | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
| Lead | 30 | 21 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| Bouldering | - | - | - | - | - | 14 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 16 | - | - | - |
| Speed | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Combined | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 13 |

### Climbing European Championships

| Discipline | 2004 | 2006 | 2008 | 2010 | 2013 | 2015 | 2017 |
| Lead | 22 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Bouldering | - | - | - | 7 | 2 | 6 | - |
| Speed | - | - | - | 22 | 34 | 32 | 41 |

## Number of medals in the Climbing European Youth Cup
### Lead

| Season | Category | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 2004 | Youth A | | | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | Juniors | 3 | 1 | | 4 |
| 2006 | Juniors | | | 1 | 1 |
| Total | Total | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |

## Number of medals in the Climbing World Cup
### Lead

| Season | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 2006 | | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2007 | | 1 | | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 2009 | 1 | | 1 | 2 |
| 2010 | | 2 | | 2 |
| 2011 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
| 2012 | 3 | 4 | | 7 |
| 2013 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 2014 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 2015 | 4 | 1 | | 5 |
| 2016 | | 1 | | 1 |
| 2017 | | 1 | | 1 |
| Total | 20 | 19 | 6 | 45 |

### Bouldering

| Season | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 2011 | 1 | | | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 1 | | 2 |
| Total | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |

## Awards

* 2015 Arco Rock Legends - LaSportiva comp award
* 2013 Salewa Rock Award
* Bloudkova nagrada - highest recognition of Slovenia for Sport achievements
* Bloudkova plaketa - Slovenian recognition for sport achievements