IFSC World Youth Championships 2011 - Imst, AUT

The Austrian Schubert for the fourth time on the podium, Markovic and Jain share the first position

Jackob Schubert on the podium again, for the third time out of three World Cup competitions, with a perfect performance: top in the semifinals and in the finals. Similarly, Mina Markovic reaffirms her great shape by topping all rounds; both climbers are now leading the World Cup ranking and - despite the long road to the end of the circuit - they seem to have changed up the gear.

Record participation in Imst for the World Youth Championship 2011, held under the high patronage of the President of the Austrian Republic. More than 650 athlete competed in the three age categories in Lead and Speed; new promises of the sport emerged, known talents confirmed their determination to break through.

The event in Munich draws the curtains on the World Cup 2011.

The IFSC Bouldering World Cup closed on Saturday with the event in Munich, Germany.

The competition awarded the World Cup titles to the Austrians Anna Stohr – winner of the World Championship in Arco – and  to Kilian Fishhuber, although neither of them stepped up for  the first place in Munich.
In the women’s field, the Slovenian Mina Markovic gains the gold medal with 3 tops 3 out of 4; the home athlete Julianne Wurm, galvanized by her public, sends one boulder more than Anna Stohr and thus gets the silver medal, with Stohr in third place.

The Russian Dmitry Sharafutdinov, World Champion in Arco, shows again his great shape with four boulders climbed on first attempt; but most impressive is the fact that only Russian athletes are on the podium at the last bouldering competition of the year: Rustam Gelmanov is second, and Alexey Rubtsov is third.

See the World Cup 2011 Rankings

Due to bad weather conditions finals were cancelled.

Pouring  rain since the early morning could not allow the normal progress of the competition. Jerome Chapelle, IFSC Jury president, in accordance with the Speed Rock event organizers  reluctantly decided to cancel the finals of the Daone Speed World Cup, scheduled on Sunday 7th.

Qualifications’ results registered during the first competition day were therefore held to be valid. The Russians had climbed on the 25 meters route of the Hydro Dolomiti Enel dam setting the new overall records on the wall, 12”33 for Stanislav Kokorin and  21”13 for Alina Gaydamakina.

Stanislav Kokorin and Alina Gaydamakin were therefore awarded gold medals. In men’s field the Polish Swirk Lukasz won the silver,  while Sergey Abdrakhmanov (RUS) won the bronze, whereas in women’s field the Italian Sara Morandi classified on the second position, followed by Edyta Ropek (POL) on third position


The next IFSC event in two weeks, on August 19 and 20 in Munich, Germany!