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Yuji Hirayama

Japan

Pemanjat tebing Jepang, juara Lead World Cup dua kali (1998 & 2000) dan orang pertama yang melakukan onsight jalur 8c (5.14b).

Yuji Hirayama is a Japanese rock climber who specialized in competition lead climbing. He won the Lead World Cup in 1998 — the first Asian climber to do so — and again in 2000. He was the first climber ever to onsight an 8c (5.14b) route and held several speed records on El Capitan in Yosemite.

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