Mia Krampl is an international rock climber who competes for Slovenia. Born in 2000 in Kranj, she then moved to Golnik when she was 6. Krampl started climbing when she was six years old and joined a local climbing club. Her older brother is a climber and she was inspired by watching him climb. She said “the first time I touched the holds was on a small warm up wall on one of his national competitions”. Krampl made rapid progress and soon began more intense training, moving up the ranks in the sport.

Krampl’s favourite discipline is lead climbing, an area of the sport in which she excels. She enjoys training in other disciplines too and started to compete at an adult level two years ago and immediately impressed people with high places in two Chinese lead climbing World Cups. More recently she has achieved a good position in nearly every World Cup entered, in 2019 she was placed third in a bouldering World Cup event in Munich, Germany. To widespread admiration she climbed despite a knee injury and at the IFSC Climbing World Championships in Japan’s Hachioji, August 2019, she achieved a silver in lead. In the Rock Master Duel she was the female winner in Arco Italy 2019.

Krampl currently lives in Gonik but trains in Kranj in a FA gym. She trains 5 times a week and is incredibly dedicated to the sport. Krampl has qualified for the Olympic Games in Tokyo, commenting that “it is like a dream come true for me”.