OLYMPIC SPORT CLIMBING
Qualify for Tokyo 2021 in Los Angeles
The IFSC Continental Championships was recently held in Los Angeles at the Sender One climbing gym by LAX. As promised, it was a nail bitter to the very end. One person that caught everyone's attention was Colin Duffy, the 16 year-old phenom that reminded many of Chris Sharma, Adam Ondra, and Alex Megos, of their early years. So, don't be surprised if you see Colin Duffy standing on the podium at next year's Summer Olympics wearing GOLD!
Canadian Alannah Yip, age 26, from North Vancouver, proved she was a dominating force by securing a spot for the 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. Watch Women's Final below.
With the 2021 Olympics rapidly approaching with the introduction of Climbing, there's a lot of questions as to how the athletes will be chosen. There's a concern many of the world's best climbers could get eliminated because they fail to compete at a high enough level in the other two disciplines. How is that possible? Was the format? For the low down, we have a great video that IFSC put together. And we have a fantastic Podcast interview with John Burgman of Climbing Magazine to break it all down.
SPORT CLIMBING
2021 SUMMER OLYMPICS
WOMEN
MEN
The 2021 Olympics in Tokyo, Japan will feature climbing for the first time with a format that combine three disciplines: Speed, Bouldering, and Lead Climbing, in that perspective order. Twenty women and twenty men will compete with a maximum of (2) athletes per gender from each country. Each athlete must compete in all three disciplines. Whoever gets the lowest combined score will win a Gold Medal.
1) Janja GARNBRET SLO
2) Akiyo NOGUCHI JPN
3) Shauna COXSEY GBR
4) Aleksandra MIROSLAW POL
5) Miho NONAKA JPN
6) Petra KLINGLER SUI
7) Brooke RABOUTOU USA
8) Jessica PILZ AUT
9) Julia CHANOURDIE FRA
10) Mia KRAMPL SLO
11) Luliia KAPLINA RUS
12) Kyra CONDIE USA
13) Laura ROGORA ITA
14) Yiling SONG CHN
15) Alannah YIP CAN
1) Tomoa NARASAKI JPN
2) Jakob SCHUBERT AUT
3) Rishat KHAILBULLIN KAZ
4) Kai HARADA JPN
5) Mickael MAWEM FRA
6) Alexander MEGOS GER
7) Ludovico FOSSALI ITA
8) Sean MCCOLL CAN
9) Adam ONDRA CZE
10) Bassa MAWEM FRA
11) Jan HOJER GER
12) YuFei PAN CHN
13) Alberto GINES LOPEZ. ESP
14) Nathaniel COLEMAN USA
15) Colin DUFFY USA
Scores will be calculated through the multiplication process:Speed x Bouldering x Lead = SCORE. For example, an athlete places 6th in speed, 3rd in bouldering, and 2nd in lead. Their score would be calculated as follows: 6 x 3 x 2 = 36 While another athlete may place 3rd in speed, 1st in bouldering, and 5th in lead. Their score will be calculated as 3 x 1 x 5 = 15. Which means, the key to winning a Gold Medal will depend on whether the athlete can WIN at least ONE discipline. Failure to do so, could cost them the podium.
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All athletes that qualified for 2021 Summer Olympics competed in IFSC World Cup Climbing championship in Hachioji, Japan. Only the top (7) were invited. Those that didn't qualify, like Adam Ondra (to everyone's surprise), had to wait until next competition in Toulouse, France.