Oceana Mackenzie

Australian rock climber

Oceana Mackenzie
Mackenzie in the boulder semi-finals at the 2023 Climbing World Championships
Personal information
NationalityAustralian
Born (2002-07-11) 11 July 2002 (age 22)
Heidelberg, Germany
Height173 cm (5 ft 8 in)[1]
Websitehttps://www.oceanamackenzie.com
Climbing career
Type of climberCompetition bouldering

Oceania "Oceana" Mackenzie[2][3] (/ˌoʊʃiːˈɑːnə/ OH-shee-AH-nə;[4] born 11 July 2002) is an Australian rock climber and competition climber who specializes in competition bouldering. She competed in the 2020 Summer Olympics, coming 19th, and in the 2024 Summer Olympics, coming 7th.

Competition climbing career

Mackenzie started climbing when she was 8 years old.[5] At the age of 15, she began to take part in the IFSC Climbing World Cup. She reached her first IFSC final of a bouldering World Cup in Meiringen in 2019, where she finished sixth.[6]

At the 2020 Oceania Championships, she won the combined event and qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.[6] At the Olympics, held in 2021, Mackenzie finished nineteenth in the qualification round and therefore did not compete in the finals.[7]

Mackenzie again won the combined event at the Oceania Championships in 2023 to earn a place at the 2024 Summer Olympics, scoring 199.9 points in its final out of a possible 200.[8] At the Olympics she made the final and placed seventh.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Oceania Mackenzie". IFSC. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
  2. ^ Snape, Jack (7 June 2024). "Oceana Mackenzie: the 'introvert' climber scaling Olympic heights for Australia". The Guardian.
  3. ^ IFSC. "Oceania Mackenzie". www.ifsc-climbing.org. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
  4. ^ "Mackenzie Oceania". Paris 2024. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
  5. ^ "Sport climbing becomes newest Olympic sport, Aussie teen Oceana Mackenzie set to compete". ABC. 15 July 2021. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
  6. ^ a b "Oceana Mackenzie". Victorian Institute of Sport. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
  7. ^ "Australian Olympic Team for Tokyo 2021". The Roar. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
  8. ^ "Harrison joins Olympian Mackenzie on the plane to Paris". IFSC. Archived from the original on 4 March 2024. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
  9. ^ "Women's Boulder & Lead, Final Lead Results". Olympics.com. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
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