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If, for some reason, you’re not out climbing this weekend there are a couple notable comps taking place that will be broadcasting live online.

First, there is the bouldering World Cup in Log-Dragomer, Slovenia which is being broadcast live on IFSC.tv.  Women’s qualifiers start at 9 am EDT today with semifinals and finals tomorrow at 7 am and 1 pm respectively.

Second, here in the U.S. there is a big sport climbing comp going on at Central Rock Gym in Hadley, MA featuring reigning national champions Sasha DiGiulian and Vasya Vorotnikov among others in what promises to be a pretty stacked field.  That feed is scheduled to start this afternoon around 4:45 pm EDT in the below window.

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Last night over 1,000 people packed into Boulder’s Movement Climbing & Fitness to watch the final round of the IFSC sanctioned lead climbing World Cup, the first such event held in the U.S. in over 20 years.  Over 20,000 additional climbing fans watched on the live feed as the Austrian duo of Jakob Schubert and Johanna Ernst bested their respective fields to take the win.

For Schubert it was his 6th consecutive win while Ernst made it look easy as she casually moved passed the highpoint shared by a few of the other women.  The only Americans to make finals, Matty Hong and Sasha DiGiulian, both climbed well and DiGiulian in particular was right there in terms of competing for a spot on the podium.

I was one of those people who tuned in to watch the live feed, a first for me for these lead climbing World Cups.  Even though sport climbing comps are a little boring to watch — minutes of climbers climbing the same ground only for them to fall at or near the same move in a split second of action¹ — it was cool to see some of the international climbers competing.  Overall the broadcast was well done even if it did suffer from the inexplicable problem of the director of the broadcast switching to random crowd shots right when a climber was reaching the crux.  Dab!

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This weekend Boulder, CO, and more specifically Movement Climbing & Fitness, will play host to the first lead climbing World Cup held on American soil in over 20 years.  67 athletes from around the world, including 25 from the U.S., will compete Saturday and Sunday according to the following schedule (all times MDT):

Saturday

• 11:30 am – Qualifiers

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You can catch the proceedings live on the IFSC.tv stream.

To commemorate the impending return of the World Cup, the American Alpine Club caught up with Jeff Lowe, one of the people who was instrumental in the last World Cups held in the U.S.  There are a lot of interesting tidbits in the interview including this one about the type of purse offered in an event held in 1988:

There was a $17,000 purse, with cash prizes all the way to tenth place. We even paid some expenses for the athletes to get to the event—we really wanted to respect them and make it a great experience for everyone. That was in 1988.

As to why there haven’t been more World Cups in the U.S. ? Well, running climbing comps is expensive:

Attracting sponsorship is more difficult than people think!

Check out the full interview here.

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