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The Art of Anna Stöhr At 2011 World Championships In Arco

Narc — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:06:38 +0000

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2011 Youth World Championships

Narc — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:37:46 +0000

Semi-finals and Finals of the 2011 Youth World Championships (of sport climbing) take place tomorrow (Saturday, August 26th) in Imst, Austria. Watch live beginning at 10:00 AM local time (4:00 AM EST) as some of America’s best young climbers test their skills on youth climbing’s biggest stage. 2011 Youth World Championships from Climbing Narcissist Get [...]

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The Art of Dmitry Sharafutdinov At 2011 World Championships In Arco

Narc — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 13:26:03 +0000

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DiGiulian, Ondra Take Overall Gold At World Championships In Arco, Italy

Narc — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:45:13 +0000

There were a lot of interesting things happening in the climbing world during my recent vacation, but perhaps none more interesting than the two week long IFSC Climbing World Championships that were held in Arco, Italy. Most of the best competition climbers in the world descended on Arco to test their skills in sport, bouldering, speed and even paraclimbing events. It would be impossible for me to do the event justice at this point, but fortunately the event’s website is a treasure trove of information, results and videos from the event.

From the American perspective, the most notable news coming out of Arco is the incredible showing of Sasha DiGiulian. Continuing an amazing year that has already featured multiple 5.14c redpoints, DiGiulian took the overall gold medal at the World Championships based on the strength of a 2nd place finish behind Austria’s Anna Stohr in the bouldering event and a solid 8th place finish (actually a 7 way tie for 2nd) in the seemingly poorly set lead event.

For the men, a self-described “out of shape”* Adam Ondra won the overall gold medal after finishing 2nd in the bouldering event and 3rd in the lead event. In addition, he won the unique Duel event and received his 3rd Salewa Rock Award given to the climber with the best performance on real rock as voted on by a panel of international climbing magazines.

For full results and reports from every event check out the World Championship’s website by clicking here.

*so out of shape that he onsighted yet another 5.14c on his way to Arco

Update: Some interesting insight on the event from Udo Neuman

The Arco World Championships was a two faced affair, at least concerning the bouldering. On the bright side was solid route setting, stunning performances and the realization how high the standard is meanwhile, especially in countries that usually don’t compete in the world cups (for many reasons). On the dark side we an arrogant organization that was unable to cope with the many competitors and clearly not interested in bouldering at all.

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2009 Climbing World Championships Results

Narc — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:45:03 +0000

The World Championships of sport, bouldering and speed climbing were held this past weekend in Qinghai, China. While no North Americans made the podium in any of the events, Canada’s Sean McColl had an incredible all around showing qualifying for finals in both bouldering and sport where he finished 6th and 5th respectively. Given that qualifying for finals requires 2 rounds of competition per discipline against specialists in that type of climbing makes it all the more impressive.

The small American contingent of Daniel Woods, Alex Johnson and Lisa Rands all made the semi-finals in their respective disciplines, but none were able to make it into finals.

Men’s Bouldering (Full results)
1. Alexey Rubstov (RUS)
2. Rustam Gelamanov (RUS)
3. David Barrans (GBR)
6. Sean McColl (CAN)
17. Daniel Woods (USA)

Women’s Bouldering (Full results)
1. Yulia Abramchuk (RUS)
2. Olga Shalagina (UKR)
3. Anna Stohr (AUT)
10. Alex Johnson (USA)
19. Lisa Rands (USA)

Men’s Lead (Full resuls)
1. Patxi Usobiaga (ESP)
2. Adam Ondra (CZE)
3. David Lama (AUT)
5. Sean McColl (CAN)

Women’s Lead (Full result)
1. Johanna Ernst (AUT)
2. Jain Kim (KOR)
3. Maja Vidmar (SLO)

UKClimbing write-up about Men’s Bouldering 3rd place finisher Dave Barrans

Climbing.com Write-up

Planetmountain Write-up

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