jessica pilz

Jessica Pilz is an international rock climber who competes for Austria. Born in 1996, she has been climbing with great success since she was nine years old. She started to compete as a teenager in 2010 both in lead climbing and bouldering and in her early years she excelled in lead climbing. Pilz is widely recognized for her international achievements in rock climbing.

Pilz won six international youth competitions in lead climbing from 2011 – 2015. Following from these excellent results, she developed further and in 2014 she won the European Youth Cup and Youth Championships in bouldering. In 2017 she was the winner at the Winter Military World games in both bouldering and lead climbing. She won the Lead Climbing World Championships in Innsbruck in 2018, beating the former World Champion Jania Garnbret.

Pilz acts as a climbing ambassador for Austria and she is incredibly passionate about the sport. She has been photographed to promote various brands and has appeared in several media outlets as a role model within the sport. In 2019 she gained 10th place in the Combined World Championships which qualified her for the summer Olympics in Tokyo.