Jan Hojer

Jan Hojer

Full name

Jan Hojer

nation

Germany

birthday

February 9, 1992

place of birth

Cologne , Germany

Career

discipline

Bouldering , lead , combination

society

Frankfurt am Main section of the DAV

status

active

Medal table

World championships	0 ×	0 ×	2 ×
European championships	2 ×	0 ×	0 ×

World climbing championships
bronze	2014 Munich, DEU	Bouldering
bronze	2018 Innsbruck, AUT	combination
European climbing championships
gold	2015 Innsbruck, AUT	Bouldering
gold	2017 Munich, DEU	Bouldering

Placements in the climbing world cup

Podium placements	1.	2.	3.
Bouldering	1	1	0
speed	0	0	1

last change: August 23, 2020

Jan Hojer (born February 9, 1992 in Cologne ) is a German sport and competition climber .

In 2008, in his first year among adults, he won the German championship in difficulty climbing . In May 2010, after ten days, he succeeded in the thirteenth ascent of the route Action Directe, which Wolfgang Güllich first climbed, with a level of difficulty 9a .

In 2014 Jan Hojer took third place at the Bouldering World Championship in Munich and was the overall World Cup winner. In 2015 he became European champion in bouldering in Innsbruck and reached 2nd place in the overall World Cup. In July 2016 he took part in the first " Ninja Warrior Germany ". At the World Cup in Chongqing he finished second.

In 2017 he also started in lead and speed climbing for the first time, because the regulations for the 2020 Summer Olympics require a combination of all three disciplines. In the lead, he achieved a 4th place at the World Cup in Villars, Switzerland. At the World Games 2017 and in the German Championship he was 2nd each. Hojer is a member of the Frankfurt am Main section of the German Alpine Club .

In August 2017 he won the day at the Bouldering World Cup in Munich and was European champion in bouldering and in the new combined rating of lead, speed and bouldering. Jan Hojer qualified to participate in the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Greatest sporting success

rock

Es Pontas (9a + / 9b) in front of Mallorca
Action Directe (9a) in the Franconian Jura
Bah Bah Black Sheep (8c +) in Céüse
The Big Island ( Fb. 8c , Boulder ) in Fontainebleau
Le Marathon de Boissy (FA, col.8c )
The Story of Two Worlds ( col. 8c )
From Dirt Grows the Flowers ( Fb.8c , Boulder )

Competitions

2005
- German runner-up youth B
2006
- German runner-up youth B
2007
- 4th place youth world championship
- German Champion Youth B
2008
- German champion in Heilbronn
- German Champion Youth A
- 2nd place overall ranking European Youth Series
2010
- 2nd place German Sport Climbing Cup
2011
- German bouldering master
- Overall victory at the German Sport Climbing Cup
- German Champion Juniors
2012
- 3rd place at the Bouldering World Cup in Vail
- 5th place at the world championship in bouldering in Paris
2013
- 1st place at the Bouldering World Cup in Innsbruck
- 2nd place at the Bouldering World Cup in Log-Dragomer