in the Speed discipline, Anouck Joubert has been the fastest in the women's qualifying climb ahead of Iuliia Kaplina...
among the top 16 there are 5 girls from Poland, 4 from Russia, 3 from France and 1 each from Italy, USA, Ecuador and Austria
in the men's Speed qualifications, Dmitrii Timofeev just edged out Reza Alipoushenazandifar...
meanwhile in the top 16 we have 6 Russians, 3 Italians, 2 Ukranians and 1 man each from USA, France, Czech Republic, Poland and of course Iran...
unfortunately there were no Indonesians at the start (both the men and women's classes), since they are focusing mainly on their Home Asian Games...
the Lead finalists, instead, are:
women's Lead
Jania Garnbret
Jessica Pilz
Christine Schranz
Claire Buhrfeind
Anak Verhoeven
Manon Hily
Ievgeniia Kazbekova
Helene Janicot
of course here a new chpter of the great challenge between Garnbret and Pilz is expected...any different outcome for Gold and Silver would be a huge surprise (actually, good half of the finalists are already surprisingly there)...
men's Lead
Sascha Lehmann
Adam Ondra
Jakob Schubert
Domen Skofic
Shuta Tanaka
Stefano Ghisolfi
Alberto Ginès Lopez
Min Hyun Bin
here we have definitely more guys aiming for the final win, from local hero Stefano Ghisolfi to "podium subscribers" like Schubert and Skofic...but my absolute favourite is Adam Ondra, finally back to world cup action after his great "natural" climbs outside the competitions...
surprisingly out in the earlier stages the Frenchman Romain Desgranges and the German Alexander Megos, multiple time medallists (and even winners) in the previous world cup rounds...