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The IFSC Climbing World Championships finished today in Innsbruck with the combined final. The top 6 men and women competed in speed, bouldering and lead. Janja Garnbret and Jakob Schubert won their second title (after Garnbret’s victory in bouldering and Schubert’s victory in lead).
Kai Harada has won the Bouldering World Championship. In a final full of tricky boulders, he was the only one capable of getting 4 tops. Jongwon Chon and Gregor Vezonik completed the podium.
Today the men faced much easier problems than those set for the women. 4 tops have been required to make finals and many favorites failed the test: Adam Ondra, Tomoa Narasaki and Jernej Kruder are out.
In a difficult final, Janja Garnbret has secured the title of Bouldering World Champion. The Slovenian won every round of the competition and, in the final, ended up one zone ahead of Akiyo Noguchi. Stasa Gejo won the bronze.
World Champion Petra Klingler will get the chance to defend her title in the final tonight, after a really good performance in the semis. She is in second place, right after Janja Garnbret, who flashed 3 problems.
Adam Ondra talks about the bouldering qualifying round Innsbruck in which he had to climb late and facing pretty bad conditions.
Dynamic and powerful boulders for the men. Jernej Kruder and Tomoa Narasaki lead the board after a qualifying round full of jumps and big holds. The difficulty level was almost perfect (but uneven between the groups).
The Bouldering has started at the World Championships in Innsbruck. The female qualifiers took place today and the boulders were very hard. Most favorites made it to semis but we saw a lot of frustration during this very long round (it lasted for more than 5 hours).
Janja Garnbret and Gregor Vezonic took the gold in a final full of emotional moments. Miho Nonaka, Jernej Kruder, Akiyo Noguchi and Jakob Schubert completed the podium. Miho Nonaka and Jernej Kruder are the overall champions.
The good route setting continues in Munich, the semifinal boulders were fun, spectacular and had near perfect difficulty. Japan and Slovenia had done really well and each team has 4 climbers in finals. Jernej Kruder has secured the overall title.
