Alex Johnson To Compete In 2009 Arco Rock Master This Weekend

Alex Johnson To Compete In 2009 Arco Rock Master This Weekend

This weekend the 23rd Arco Rock Master competition in Lake Garda, Trentino, Italy will feature some of the world’s best climbers competing in lead, duel, bouldering and speed climbing invite only competitions.

Competing in the “Sint Roc Boulder Contest” as the sole representative for the United States will be Wisconsin’s very own Alex Johnson.  Scheduled for 2:00 pm local time this Sunday (7:00 am CST), the women’s bouldering contest features a select group of the world’s strongest female boulderers.  Based on the way Johnson floated up the hardest boulder problems at my local gym the other night she looks to be in good form…at least on V7s.

As a bonus, it looks like some sort of live coverage of the event will be done beginning tomorrow at this link.  It remains to be seen if this means live video or just live results.  Check in tomorrow to find out.

The other events looks like they will be pretty cool to watch as well with the likes of Adam Ondra and Patxi Usobiaga competing in the lead competition.  Here are the athlete lists for all the events:

Arco Weekend Program:

FRIDAY 4 September 2009

  • 18.00 Casinò Municipale –  exhibition by painter Gabriella Piardi
  • 21.00 – Casinò Municipale di Arco – Award’s ceremony Arco Rock Legends.
  • Host Kay Rush will present the athletes nominated for the Arco Rock Legends Award and announce the winners of the Salewa Rock Award and La Sportiva Competition Award.
  • During the celebration there will also be time for the official presentation of the logo and film introducing the ISFC World Climbing Championship, scheduled to take place in Arco in July 2011.

SATURDAY 5 September 2009

  • 15.30 – Climbing Stadium – Rock Master “On sight” first round – women and men
  • 21.00 – Climbing Stadium – Sint Roc Boulder Contest – men
  • 22.30 – Climbing Stadium – Parallel of Speed – women and men

SUNDAY 6 September 2009

  • 09.30 – Climbing Stadium – Rock Master  “after work” second round – women and men
  • 14.00 – Climbing Stadium – Sint Roc Boulder Contest – women
  • 15.30 – Climbing Stadium – Duel – Ennio Lattisi Trophy
  • 16.30 – Climbing Stadium – Award’s Ceremony
  • 18.00 – Caffè Conti d’Arco – Bar Pio Rock Master Party – celebration with the champions

Lengthy preview by PlanetMountain.com

H/T to Joost for the clock idea

Update: Johnson took 4th place.

Posted In: Arco Rock Master, Bouldering
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12 Responses to Alex Johnson To Compete In 2009 Arco Rock Master This Weekend

  1. automated September 4, 2009 at 11:29 am #

    soooo syked!

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  2. daniel September 4, 2009 at 11:58 am #

    live as in live stream! i remember watching last year’s lead event online.

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    • Narc September 4, 2009 at 11:59 am #

      Sweet, I would assume this year would be more of the same then.

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  3. ginger September 5, 2009 at 10:54 am #

    Looks like it is live to me>

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  4. Chris Eggbert September 6, 2009 at 9:54 am #

    I think you need to start qualifying which Alex Johnson you are talking about in your tag line. Propose “Alexa” for she-Alex. ce

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    • Narc September 8, 2009 at 6:19 am #

      This is an interesting dilemma that will only get worse as time goes by. Since the female AJ was here first I think she has dibs.

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      • ginger September 8, 2009 at 6:43 pm #

        i think i’ve heard him called “Alex David Johnson”

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  5. Narc September 8, 2009 at 7:07 pm #

    I’ve always been partial to calling him “D” Alex Johnson.

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  6. Tony September 8, 2009 at 10:17 pm #

    I always remember Craig calling him ‘the other Alex Johnson’

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  7. sweatpants September 9, 2009 at 9:07 am #

    I call him steroids. Referring to how tall he grew in one year. He went from this little dude to this tall fucker. Just call him steroids folks.

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  8. Julian September 10, 2009 at 2:46 pm #

    I think we should go with Falex and Malex.

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  9. Ryan September 21, 2009 at 12:54 pm #

    Do you know how she did in the comp?

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