Ethan Flynn-Pitcher

Biography

• Competed in the junior division at the 2019 IFSC Youth World Championships
• Debuted at the senior IFSC World Championships in 2021
• Debuted on the IFSC World Cup circuit in 2021
• Finished a career-best 11^th in the speed event at the IFSC World Cup in Edinburgh in September 2022
• First Canadian to ever break the six-second mark in speed climbing
• Re-set the Canadian record at 5.48 seconds in July 2023 at the IFSC World Cup in Chamonix

A Little More About Ethan

Getting into the Sport: His fourth grade teacher told his parents he needed to stop scaling the walls of the school and invited him to try sport climbing instead; that teacher was Adam Markert, who had been a World Cup climber and became his mentor and coach… Had always been naturally good to climbing trees and liked feeling like Spider-Man… Odds and Ends: Born in Newfoundland, his family moved to Colorado when he was a child… Was first inspired by Sean McColl on the podium at a World Cup in Vail and again when he had the chance to compete alongside him…