Le Bourget Climbing Venue

Le Bourget Sport Climbing Venue

The Le Bourget Sport Climbing Venue is a key facility planned for the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, designed specifically to host the sport climbing events. Located in Le Bourget, a suburb of Paris, the venue will feature state-of-the-art climbing walls tailored for three distinct disciplines: lead climbing, speed climbing, and bouldering. This facility will serve as the global stage for some of the world’s best climbers, offering spectators an exciting and dynamic Olympic experience.

Le Bourget itself is historically associated with aviation, as it houses the famous Paris Air Show, but for the 2024 Olympics, it will transform into an arena for athleticism and climbing excellence. The climbing venue’s construction is part of a broader push for sustainability, incorporating eco-friendly materials and practices as part of the Games’ commitment to being environmentally conscious.

A direct legacy of the Games, Le Bourget Sport Climbing Venue will be one of two sports facilities built specifically for the Games, the other being the Aquatics Centre in Saint- Denis. Looking beyond the Games, the two facilities are something Seine-Saint-Denis – a department with a lack of sports facilities, ranking 103rd out of 105 – both needs and expects. Five climbing walls will be used during the Games: one indoor warm-up wall in a purpose built sports hall (part of the lasting legacy of the Games) and four outdoor walls, including three competition walls (for the two events on the programme, i.e. speed and the combined boulder and lead event) and one warm-up wall.

The facility will be at the heart of a Games cluster just a stone’s throw away from the media village in Dugny and La Courneuve Shooting Range, and relatively near the Stade de France and the Aquatics Centre 5 km away. After the Games, the temporary climbing walls – just like the temporary pools and the urban sports structures at Place de Concorde – could be moved to other locations that have yet to be decided, benefitting local residents, clubs and associations.

Post 2024 Games

The indoor climbing wall built in Le Bourget for the Games will be left behind for local residents, schools, associations and clubs to use on a daily basis.