# Natalia Grossman

Natalia Grossman (/ˈɡroʊsmən/ GROHSS-mən; born June 22, 2001) is an American professional rock climber who specializes in competition climbing. She represents the United States at IFSC Climbing World Cup in competition bouldering and competition lead climbing. She has had 22 podium finishes at World Cup events, including 11 gold medals, and is the only climber to have won four consecutive overall titles in bouldering.

## Early life

Grossman grew up in Santa Cruz, California and at age six, began climbing at the Pacific Edge climbing gym where Chris Sharma also climbed in his youth. She joined the Zero Gravity team that trained at Berkeley Ironworks, a gym that was an hour and 45 minutes away in Berkeley, California.
Following Zero Gravity's disbanding in 2014, her family moved to Boulder, Colorado in 2015 so she could train with Robyn Erbesfield-Raboutou's Team ABC.

## Climbing career
### Competition climbing

Grossman finished second in the bouldering and combined disciplines at the 2019 IFSC Climbing World Youth Championships in Arco, Italy, where she also finished fourth in speed climbing and sixth in lead climbing. She went undefeated in the 2019-2020 bouldering National Cup Series and won the USA Climbing 2020 Bouldering Open National Championship.
In 2021, Grossman finished first in bouldering and second in lead climbing at the USA Climbing National Team Trials in March, qualifying for the USA national team in both disciplines. In April, she won her first IFSC Climbing World Cup medal with a bronze at the Boulder World Cup in Meiringen. In May, across two IFSC events held in Salt Lake City, she won her first two World Cup gold medals, topping all four boulders in the final in the first event and flashing all four final boulders in the second, beating Janja Garnbret, who also topped all four boulders, on attempts and thereby becoming the first woman to beat Garnbret in a Boulder World Cup since 2018. In June, she won a silver medal at the Boulder World Cup in Innsbruck, winning her first overall title in the Boulder World Cup. In lead climbing, Grossman finished on the podium in four of five events, winning two silver and bronze medals each and finishing in second place in the overall rankings of the Lead World Cup. She closed out the season with a gold medal in bouldering and a silver medal in lead climbing at the 2021 IFSC Climbing World Championships in Moscow.
In 2022, Grossman won the overall title in the Boulder World Cup by earning a place on the podium at every event that season, winning five gold medals and one silver medal. She also finished in third place in the overall rankings of the Lead World Cup after six straight appearances in finals and two bronze medals.
In 2023, Grossman won two gold medals and one silver medal on her way to securing her third consecutive overall title in the Boulder World Cup. Later that year, she qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris by winning the combined bouldering and lead climbing event at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile.
In 2024, Grossman suffered a knee injury on her way to winning a gold medal at the Boulder World Cup in Salt Lake City in May. Due to her injury, she did not compete again until competing at the Olympics in August, where she finished in eleventh place in the semifinals of the combined event and did not move on to finals. After winning another gold medal at the Boulder World Cup in Prague and finishing in fourth place at the Boulder World Cup in Seoul, Grossman won the overall title for the 2024 Boulder World Cup, becoming the first-ever climber to win four consecutive season titles in bouldering.

### Rock climbing

With competitions in 2020 canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Grossman focused on outdoor climbs for the first time in her career, sending four V13 (8B) rated boulders in the Rocky Mountain National Park and redpointed the 5.14b (8c) rated sport climbing route, Positive Vibrations.

## World Cup results
### Rankings

| Discipline | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Bouldering | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Lead | 2 | 3 | — | — |

### Podiums
#### Lead

| Season | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 2021 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Total | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 |

#### Bouldering

| Season | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 2021 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 2022 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 2023 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Total | 11 | 3 | 1 | 15 |

#### Bouldering & Lead

| Season | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |

## Personal life

Grossman attended the University of Colorado Boulder and graduated in 2022. In January 2021, she moved to Salt Lake City to train at USA Climbing's national team base while she continued taking classes online.
Grossman's mother is from Tampico, Mexico, where her family visited in summers and winters during her childhood.