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Gold medalist Janja Garnbret of Team Slovenia celebrates on the podium after the Women's Boulder & Lead Final on at the Paris Summer Olympics on Aug. 10, 2024.Michael Reaves—Getty Images  by [Rebecca Schneid](https://time.com/author/rebecca-schneid/)  ## Rebecca Schneid Reporter Aug 10, 2024 3:38 PM UTC Janja Garnbret [defended her gold medal](https://olympics.com/en/news/paris-2024-sport-climbing-all-results-janja-garnbret-becomes-double-olympic-champion-with-boulder-lead-gold) in sports climbing on Saturday, becoming a double Olympic champion in the Boulder & Lead event. Garnbret, 25, won the gold for her home country of Slovenia, her score topping Team USA’s now silver-medalist Brooke Raboutou and the other finalists. The two are close friends though, and after the competition was completed, they ran over to one another and embraced. “We have an incredible friendship to where we both want each other to do our best, and that’s what happened today,” said Raboutou, according to[theWashington _Post_](https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/2024/08/10/2024-olympics-paris-janja-garnbret-sport-climbing/22475fa0-5712-11ef-9a60-5b6e8b4da7c0%5Fstory.html). “And that feels really good to share that with somebody, and to represent the sport in a way that we know we’re doing it right and we’re doing it for ourselves.”  Gold medalist Janja Garnbret of Team Slovenia celebrates with Silver medalist Brooke Raboutou of Team USA. Michael Reaves—Getty Images In the bouldering semi-finals, Garnbreat dazzled, [just four-tenths of a point away](https://olympics.com/en/news/sport-climbing-janja-garnbret-boulder-semis-storm-ahead-paris-2024-olympics) from a perfect score, earning 99.6 points out of 100. During the fourth boulder of the finals, though, after initially dominating, Garnbret fell and began to nurse one of her fingers, at which point Raboutou was able to overtake her slightly. As the competition heated up, Garnbret managed to overtake Raboutou in the lead section of the finals, despite her potential injury. Her lead performance was enough to reach the coveted podium position with a combined score of 168.5 points. “I was really scared because my finger got stuck in between two holes and I couldn’t get it out,” Garnbret said, per the Washington _Post_.“But I had so much adrenaline that... I didn’t even care. I said to myself, ‘I don’t care if I’m missing a hand or a finger.’ I would go out there and climb the route.”  Janja Garnbret of Team Slovenia climbs during the Women's Boulder & Lead final on Aug. 10, 2024, in Paris, France. Michael Reaves—Getty Images Nine years after featuring in her first World Cup aged 16, Garnbret has officially cemented herself in climbing history with [eight world championship titles](https://janja-garnbret.com/), and in 2019, Garnbret achieved an extraordinary feat, [sweeping the Bouldering World Cup season](https://www.climber.co.uk/news/garnbret-achieved-first-ever-clean-sweep-in-ifsc-wc-boulder-season/) by winning all six events—the first ever to do it. In adding her second Olympic gold medal, Garnbret has only further proved her title as [the “undisputed G.O.A.T. in her discipline](https://olympics.com/en/athletes/janja-garnbret),” according to the official Olympics blog. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/7009778/janja-garnbret-wins-olympic-gold-boulder-lead-final/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/7009778/janja-garnbret-wins-olympic-gold-boulder-lead-final/"},"headline":"Janja Garnbret Wins Gold in Boulder & Lead Final Becoming a Double Olympic Champion","datePublished":"2024-08-10T15:38:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:52:05.675Z","description":"The athlete defended her gold medal in sports climbing on Saturday, becoming a double Olympic champion in the Boulder & Lead event.","url":"https://time.com/7009778/janja-garnbret-wins-olympic-gold-boulder-lead-final/","keywords":["2024 Paris Olympics","News Desk","sponsorshipblock"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd49c248ea8fcf502/698a59c1096a945f6f6b0d39/GettyImages-2166166562.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rebecca Schneid","jobTitle":"Reporter","url":"https://time.com/author/rebecca-schneid/"}],"articleSection":"Sports","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd49c248ea8fcf502/698a59c1096a945f6f6b0d39/GettyImages-2166166562.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Sport Climbing - Olympic Games Paris 2024: Day 15","caption":"Sport Climbing - Olympic Games Paris 2024: Day 15","creditText":"Michael Reaves—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/sports/","name":"Sports"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2024-paris-olympics/","name":"2024 Paris Olympics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/7009778/janja-garnbret-wins-olympic-gold-boulder-lead-final/","name":"Janja Garnbret Wins Gold in Boulder & Lead Final Becoming a Double Olympic Champion"}}]}] ```