Watch the real-life Spider-Woman smash a speed-climbing world record in under 7 seconds

The Serena Williams of speed climbing.
By Caitlin Welsh  on 
Watch the real-life Spider-Woman smash a speed-climbing world record in under 7 seconds
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The IFSC (read: rock climbing) World Cup was held in Xiamen, China, over the weekend. All of the above highlights from the speed climbing competition are impressive and a little terrifying — but new women's champ Aries Susanti Rahayu is a clear standout. She raced up the 15m course in 6.995 seconds, smashing the women's world record and also becoming the first woman to climb a speed wall in under 7 seconds.

The 24-year-old Indonesian is nicknamed Spider-Woman for a reason. Watch her winning race, starting at 1:26 in the video, and marvel (ahem) at how the Serena Williams of speed-climbing just... ignores gravity.

And as the end of the video shows, she did it while injured.

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Caitlin Welsh

Caitlin is Mashable's Australian Editor. She has written for The Guardian, Junkee, and any number of plucky little music and culture publications that were run on the smell of an oily rag and have since been flushed off the Internet like a dead goldfish by their new owners. She also worked at Choice, Australia's consumer advocacy non-profit and magazine, and as such has surprisingly strong opinions about whitegoods. She enjoys big dumb action movies, big clever action movies, cult Canadian comedies set in small towns, Carly Rae Jepsen, The Replacements, smoky mezcal, revenge bedtime procrastination, and being left the hell alone when she's reading.


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