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Ashima Shiraishi (born April 3, 2001 in New York, NY) is an American rock climber. She is known for being one of the strongest young climbers - male or female - of all time. She started climbing in Central Park at age seven, and at Brooklyn Boulders. The New York Times has called her a Bouldering Phenom. Outside Magazine has described her as a Young Crusher. At age 13 she became the first woman, and youngest (male/female), to climb a sport route with a difficulty grade of .〔 Very few athletes in the world can climb at this level as both sport climbing grading systems and bouldering grading systems only have two additional, and more difficult, grades that Ashima has not climbed. == Biography == Ashima was born in New York, NY in 2001. Her parents, Tsuya and Hisatoshi Shiraishi immigrated from Japan in 1978 to New York, NY. Her father, Hisatoshi Shiraishi was trained as a dancer in Butoh. When Ashima was 7, her parents took her to Central Park and she discovered Rat Rock where she first started to rock climb. Ashima first made a name for herself by bouldering at a very high level at a very young age. At age 8, Ashima climbed the challenging boulder problem Power of Silence (V10). At age 9, she sent Chablanke (V11/12), Roger in the Shower (V11), and several other difficult boulders. At age 10, Ashima climbed Crown of Aragorn (V13). She is the youngest person ever to climb this grade, and one of very few females to climb a confirmed V13. Ashima has also excelled in sport climbing. In October 2012, at age 11 she sent Southern Smoke at the Red River Gorge, a grade 5.14c sport climb. Ashima is the youngest person to climb a sport climbing route of this difficulty. In 2013, Ashima has continued to excel at both bouldering and sport climbing, adding 5.14a at Céüse, then two more V13s with One Summer in Paradise and Automator, and finally two more 5.14c's (24 Karats and 50 Words for Pump) to her already impressive ticklist. In July 2014, she climbed her first V14, Golden Shadow. She is only the second officially recorded female climber (after Tomoko Ogawa) to successfully send a V14 problem. On the first day of 2015, Ashima sent her second V14, The Swarm, claiming the first top-out of the problem by any climber, male or female (several men previously sent the problem but failed to top out).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ashima Shiraishi and Paige Claassen Join The North Face )〕 At age 13, Ashima climbed her first 5.15a/9a+, Open Your Mind Direct in Santa Linya. The route was originally a 5.14d/9a until a hold was broken off near the top of the route. Ashima was the first to climb it with the missing hold. In 2015 Ashima won the IFSC World Youth Championships for both lead and bouldering in the Female Youth B category. She is sponsored by Evolv, The North Face, Clif Bar, and Petzl. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ashima Shiraishi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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