Chloé Graftiaux

{{Short description|Belgian rock climber}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}}

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| name = Chloé Graftiaux

| image = Boulder Worldcup Vienna 29-05-2010a semifinals097 Chloé Graftiaux.jpg

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| caption = Chloé Graftiaux, Vienna 2010

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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1987|07|18|}}

| birth_place = Brussels, Belgium

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2010|08|21|1987|07|18}}

| death_place = Courmayeur, Italy

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| website = {{URL|https://www.chloegraftiaux.com/}}

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• Competition climbing
• Sport climbing
• Bouldering
• Alpine climbing}}

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| highestredpoint = {{Climbing grade|8b}}

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| highestboulder = {{boulder grade|7C}}

| knownfor = Bouldering World Cup winner

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| updated = 23 January 2022

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{{MedalSport | Women's competition climbing }}

{{MedalCountry | {{BEL}} }}

{{Medal|Competition|IFSC Climbing World Cup}}

{{Medal|Bronze|2010|Boulder}}

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Chloé Graftiaux (18 July 1987 in Brussels, Belgium – 21 August 2010 in Courmayeur, Italy) was a Belgian competition climber and alpinist who fell to her death on the {{convert|3773|m|ft|adj=on}} Aiguille Noire de Peuterey in the Mont Blanc massif, aged 23.{{cite web|url=http://www.planetmountain.com/english/News/shownews1.lasso?l=2&keyid=37552|title=Goodbye Chloé Graftiaux|publisher=PlanetMountain.com|date=23 August 2010|accessdate=23 August 2010}}{{cite magazine|magazine=Climbing | url=https://www.climbing.com/people/chloe-graftiaux-dies-in-the-alps/ | title=Chloe Graftiaux Dies in the Alps | date=23 August 2010 | accessdate=26 January 2022}}

File:Boulder Worldcup Vienna 29-05-2010b final10 Chloé Graftiaux.jpg

In the 2010 season of the IFSC Bouldering World Cup, she won Gold at the World Cup events in Vail, and Sheffield, and finished third in the overall 2010 standings.{{cite web|url=http://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php?page_name=ranglist&cat=ICC_FB|title=Climbing Worldcup 2010 Standing|publisher=International Federation of Sport Climbing|date=23 August 2010|accessdate=23 August 2010}} Graftiaux was also a multiple lead climbing champion,{{cite web | website=Millett.com | url=https://www.millet-mountain.com/100-year/history/chloe-graftiaux | date=2011 | title=Born to Climb: Chloé Graftiaux | accessdate=25 January 2022 }} and had redpointed to {{climbing grade|8b}}, and boulder climbed to {{boulder grade|7C}}.{{cite web | website=British Mountaineering Council | url=https://www.thebmc.co.uk/chloe-graftiaux-tragically-killed | title=Chloé Graftiaux tragically killed | first=Nick | last=Colton | date=28 March 2010 | accessdate=25 January 2022}} Graftiux was a strong alpinist, climbing to mixed grade M11 and ice climbing to grade WI6, and the French Alpine Club selected her for the 2008-2009 Groupe Excellence Alpinisme.{{cite magazine | magazine=Alpinist | url=http://www.alpinist.com/doc/web10x/newswire-chloe-graftiaux | title=Graftiaux Takes Fatal Fall on Mont Blanc | date=24 August 2010 | first=Meghan | last=Ward | accessdate=25 January 2022}} In January 2010, she won the Ice Master-Worldcup ice climbing competition in Valle di Daone in Italy.{{cite web| url=http://www.daoneicemaster.it/lang/IT/eventi/dettaglio/markus_bendler_la_conferma_chloe_graftiaux_la_sorpresa_semifinali_amare_per_herbert_klammer_ed_angelika_rainer,91.html|title=Markus Bendler la conferma, Chloe Graftiaux la sorpresa, semifinali amare per Herbert Klammer ed Angelika Rainer|language=Italian|publisher=Ice Master-Worldcup, Valle di Daone|date=16 January 2010|access-date=23 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722031216/http://www.daoneicemaster.it/lang/IT/eventi/dettaglio/markus_bendler_la_conferma_chloe_graftiaux_la_sorpresa_semifinali_amare_per_herbert_klammer_ed_angelika_rainer,91.html|archive-date=22 July 2011|url-status=dead}}

On 21 August 2010, she climbed the Aiguille Noire de Peuterey with her climbing partner, Nicolas. While descending the south face of the mountain a boulder came loose. She was not roped up and she fell to her death. In 2011, a non-profit foundation, "Chloé Graftiaux Passion Together", was created to give scholarships to young climbers.{{cite web | website=PlanetMountain.com | url=https://www.planetmountain.com/en/news/books-press/passion-together-in-memory-of-chloe-graftiaux.html | title=Passion Together, in memory of Chloé Graftiaux | date=29 March 2011 | accessdate=25 January 2022}} In June 2020, Belgian rock climber Anak Verhoeven established Belgium's hardest sport climb and first-ever 8c+/9a route and named it Kraftio in her memory.{{cite web | website=PlanetMountain.com | url=https://www.planetmountain.com/en/news/climbing/anak-verhoeven-frees-kraftio-hardest-climb-belgium-dedicated-chloe-graftiaux.html | title=Anak Verhoeven frees Kraftio, the hardest climb in Belgium dedicated to Chloé Graftiaux | date=5 June 2020 | accessdate=24 January 2022}}