Gold for Surrey climber at the Paris Games

Surrey's Toby Roberts has won an incredible gold medal in sport climbing at the Olympics for Team GB.

Toby’s former climbing club have said they are "so proud" of his Olympic gold, remembering him as "leaps and bounds" ahead of other youngsters at the club.

The teenager did his first recorded climb when he was just three years old and, when he was 10, he became the youngest Briton to scale the 8a Raindogs route at Malham Cove in North Yorkshire.

The Elstead athlete also became the first Briton to win a lead World Cup medal for 28 years at the Ratho World Cup in 2022.

Coached by his father, Tristian, Roberts spent the pandemic lockdown training on a wall in his Surrey back garden.

The 19-year-old used to climb with Craggy Island Youth Climbing Team, now part of the Spider Climbing Group.

The Blue Spider Climbing team, based in Guildford, said it is "incredible" that Roberts won gold.

"He climbed here when we were Craggy Island for a number of years but he was really talented with outdoor climbing," they said.

"He loved climbing outdoors with his dad.

"He basically was leaps and bounds ahead of a lot of the kids on the kids' club and he would come in just with his dad and climb after, outside of that time.

"A lot of people in the centre noticed, obviously, he was insanely good at climbing."

The team added: "It's incredible, can't believe he won gold.

"We're obviously very proud. That's awesome."

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