#03 Chiara Hanke

Chiara Hanke is from Franken: she was born in Nürnberg. However, she didn’t get to know the area much as a child; her family relocated when she was less than a year old.
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Chiara got into climbing at the age of 13 in a gym. It happened in a rather curious way: she was recommended climbing as a way of strengthening her shoulder after an injury suffered while wakeboarding. This new “rehab sport” pulled her in so much that she wasn’t really to be seen on a wakeboard afterwards. She became an active competition climber instead, with many an achievement in regional, national and European level youth comps.

At first she would only come to the Frankenjura rarely, maybe twice a year for a few days, mainly to visit her dad in the area. She enjoyed the rock as a counterweight to the competition circuit.

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