At a Glance

• 4 medals total: 1 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze
• Event: World Climbing Series Krakow 2026, July 3–5
• Fastest time: 6.54 seconds (women's speed final)
• Fastest overall: 4.79 seconds (men's speed, bronze)

Six-point-five-four seconds. That's how long it took Desak Made Rita Kusuma Dewi to climb a 15-meter wall and turn into Indonesia's newest sporting headline. She didn't just win  she did it fast enough that the scoreboard barely had time to catch up.

That gold medal came at the World Climbing Series Krakow 2026, held in Kraków, Poland, from July 3 to 5, 2026. Indonesia's national climbing team, sent by the Federasi Panjat Tebing Indonesia (FPTI), walked away with four medals total: one gold, one silver, and two bronze  across speed and relay categories.

Who Actually Won What ?

Desak Made Rita Kusuma Dewi wasn't just Indonesia's headline act  she medaled three times. Her gold came in the women's individual speed final at 6.54 seconds. She then teamed up with Antasyafi Robby Al Hilmi to take silver in the mixed relay at 11.30 seconds, and paired with Rajiah Sallsabillah for bronze in the women's relay.

The fourth medal went to Raharjati Nursamsa, who clocked 4.79 seconds in the men's individual speed event  fast enough for bronze, and a full 1.75 seconds quicker than his teammate's gold-winning women's run. Speed climbing timing gaps like that are why the sport rewards fractions of a second the way sprinting does.

Why Speed Climbing Medals Matter Right Now

Indonesia has quietly built one of the world's most competitive speed-climbing programs, and results like Krakow 2026 aren't a fluke  they're part of a pattern stretching back through multiple World Cup podiums. Speed climbing, unlike its bouldering and lead cousins, is a straight footrace up an identical wall, which makes Indonesian dominance in the discipline easy to verify and hard to argue with.

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The wall itself hits a slight overhang near the top  the section where most climbers lose fractions of a second fumbling for the final holds. Watching a 6-second run live, the sound is almost more striking than the sight: a rapid slap-slap-slap of hands and feet against plastic holds, over almost before it starts.