Sport Climbing IFSC World Cup 2019

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Sport Climbing IFSC World Cup 2019

 

Multi-Stage Event - 5 April 2019 - 27 October 2019

 

 

Official Website

[phelps 7,680]

 

*most events are still listed as "Provisional", but I think the definitive version won't be different from this one...

[heywoodu 15,147]

Right, I'm gonna try and follow this as much as I can, let's see how long I keep it up  

[Gianlu33 4,575]

2 ore fa, phelps ha scritto:

 

*most events are still listed as "Provisional", but I think the definitive version won't be different from this one...

Congrats to the genius of the our federation that mistake to read the balance (that now is in red)... We refused to host the WC

[szy123 79]

4 godziny temu, phelps napisał:

 

*most events are still listed as "Provisional", but I think the definitive version won't be different from this one...

Not a single combined a year before olympics? I thought they would put at least one somewhere.

[phelps 7,680]

2 ore fa, szy123 ha scritto:

Not a single combined a year before olympics? I thought they would put at least one somewhere.

 

no, the combined event basically doesn't exist...it's a compromise between IFSC and IOC to find a place for Sport Climbing at the Olympic Games, but at senior level it's not present in any other competition apart from the World Championships (and this year there are no world champs) and the Olympic Qualifier (late november in France)...

 

of course there will be some minor competitions and National Champs in most Countries to practice and find out who's most reliable in that kind of event, but it's not scheduled in any other major competition...

[phelps 7,680]

here we are...the new season has officially begun...

 

in Meiringen, the first Bouldering event of the year is underway...

 

men's Bouldering, climbers qualified to the semifinals (tomorrow, 11 a.m. CET)

Stefano Ghisolfi
Alexander Megos
Pan Yu Fei
Taisei Ishimatsu
Chon Jong Won
Aleksey Rubtsov
Gregor Vezonik
Tim Reuser
Rei Sugimoto
Anze Peharc
Yoshiyuki Ogata
Tomoaki Takata
Alex Khazanov
Jernej Kruder
Keita Dohi
Kokoro Fujii
Adam Ondra
Tomoa Narasaki
Nathaniel Coleman
Nathan Phillips

 

as expected, Japan are absolutely the most dominant squad, with Slovenia as their main rivals...

but with the Olympics in sight, it looks that the great Adam Ondra will regularly attend the world cup, which makes him the favourite in all the bouldering and lead events he's gonna enter...

and @heywoodu...it looks that in this first event of the year there's also some Dutch interest...

 

women's Bouldering, climbers qualified to the semifinals (tomorrow, following the men's semifinals)

Lucka Rakovec
Oceania MacKenzie
Alex Johnson
Berit Schwaiger
Ievgeniia Kazbekova
Petra Klinger
Julia Pinggera
Shauna Coxsey
Sa Sol
Katja Kadic
Afra Hönig
Alanna Yip
Emily Phillips
Futaba Ito
Julia Chanourdie
Sandra Lettner
Fanny Gibert
Akiyo Noguchi
Kyra Condie
Janja Garnbret

 

almost all the top girls are there, but there are also a lot of newcomers (some of them, very young)...

not surprisingly, the USA team is starting to show up big in both the men and women's events, once the Olympics are getting closer...

still, the great Janja is always the woman to beat...

 

bad outing for the Italian team in general (and our young raising star Laura Rogora in particular), but we know that Bouldering is our weakest discipline...

 

 

Edited April 5, 2019 by phelps

[heywoodu 15,147]

Yeah, Tim Reuser qualified I see

 

Never heard of him and apparently there are no results of him for the past two years  

[phelps 7,680]

as usual in the past few seasons, Semifinals and Finals will be streamed live on Youtube (IFSC page)...

 

[heywoodu 15,147]

Just now, phelps said:

as usual in the past few seasons, Semifinals and Finals will be streamed live on Youtube (IFSC page)...

 

 

One of the many reasons why sports climbing very much deserved it's Olympic spot. Good official live coverage for free all year long.