NAGOYA, Japan — Sport climber Seo Chae-hyun won the gold medal in the women’s lead event at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Saturday, with fellow South Korean Lee Do-hyun taking home the men’s lead bronze medal later in the day. Seo topped the route in the women’s lead final at the Port Messe Nagoya Exhibition Hall in Nagoya, central Japan. She edged out Ai Mori of Japan, who scored 47+, for her first career Asian Games gold medal. Seo won bronze in the women’s boulder, a problem-solving discipline in climbing, on Thursday, and lead has long been Seo’s main event. The 22-year-old proved on Saturday why she is the top Asian in the lead world rankings at No. 2. In lead, the objective for climbers is to ascend as high as possible on a route set on a 15-meter wall within six minutes. Climbers each earn 25 points for reaching and controlling the final top hold of a boulder problem and 10 points for reaching a designated zone hold and making a movement to stabilize or advance the climb. The “+” sign is added to their score if they move toward the next hold but fail to secure it. Climbers
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