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Delaney Miller

American rock climber

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ17612238
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Delaney Miller (born April 6, 1995) is an American former professional rock climber who specialised in competition climbing and sport climbing. In 2013, Miller took second to Sasha DiGiulian in "The Heist", a bouldering competition by and for women. She placed second in the 2013 Psicocomp to DiGiulian, and placed second again in 2014 to Claire Buhrfeind. In April 2014, she beat out DiGiulian and Buhrfeind to become the Sports Climbing Series National Champion. In September 2014, she redpointed the 9a (5.14d) graded sport-climbing route, Fat Camp, in Colorado. Miller was also a senior editor for Climbing.

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The public source identifies “Delaney Miller” as american rock climber. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Delaney, Miller and American.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995, 2013, 2014—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1995-04-06. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Delaney, Miller and American providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from Delaney Miller” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.