My favourite sportsperson By Kelly Nammour 10 My favourite sportsperson is Ashima Shiraishi. She's an American rock climber. She's 154 cm tall, she weighs 40 kg and she's smaller and lighter than most climbers. She lives in New York. 2 She trains five days a week after school with her father, Hisatoshi. He's also her coach. Ashima goes rock climbing whenever she can and she practises on climbing walls in the gym, too. She loves climbing but she also enjoys watching basketball on TV, listening to music and watching films. 36 I think she's amazing because she is the first woman and the youngest person to climb the 'Horizon' rock in Japan. It's one of the most difficult rocks in the world to climb. She is one of the world's strongest climbers and one of the most successful young sportspeople in the world too.