GB name four-strong climbing squad for Paris 2024

Four athletics climbers will make their Olympic debut for Great Britain this summertime aft being selected for Paris 2024.

Toby Roberts and Hamish McArthur are group to go GB’s first antheral climbers astatine nan Olympics, while Erin McNeice and Molly Thompson-Smith complete nan GB squad.

Shauna Coxsey was GB's sole typical successful nan Games’ inaugural athletics climbing arena astatine Tokyo 2020 but retired aft nan event.

Last twelvemonth Roberts, 19, became nan first British climber to triumph a World Cup successful 2 different disciplines - lead and boulder.

McArthur, 23, is simply a double younker world champion and earned a bronze badge astatine his first elder World Championship successful Moscow 3 years ago.

McNeice, 20, and Thompson-Smith, 26, some secured qualification for Paris 2024 astatine past month's Olympic Qualifier Series, pinch McNeice collecting 2 bronze medals astatine nan events successful Shanghai and Budapest.

There are four badge events astatine Paris crossed 2 disciplines - velocity and mixed (boulder and lead) - pinch each subject having a abstracted title for antheral and female climbers.

The GB quartet will compete successful nan mixed category, pinch nan athletics climbing events being held from 5-10 August.