JAMIE FOY
JAMIE FOY
JAMIE FOY
OLYMPIC SPORT CLIMBING
Qualify for 2021 Summer Olympics
Before the Covid-19 lockdown in mid-March, Sender One in Los Angeles by LAX, hosted the IFSC Continental Championships to determine who will be going to the Olympics. As promised, it was a nail bitter to the very end. Placing 2nd or 3rd would not suffice, only the winners from each (female and male) category would secure a spot. 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, in their earlier years.
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 CLIMBING getting introduced to the 2021 Olympics, there's been a lot of questions as to how athletes are scored to determine the overall winner. Thankfully, IFSC created this video with the intention of explaining.
SPORT CLIMBING
2021 SUMMER OLYMPICS
WOMEN
1) Janja GARNBRET SLO
2) Akiyo NOGUCHI JPN
3) Shauna COXSEY GBR
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) Yulia KAPLINA RUS
12) Kyra CONDIE USA
13) Laura ROGORA ITA
14) Yiling SONG CHN
15) Alannah YIP CAN
16) Anouck JAUBERT FRA
MEN
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
16) Michael PICCOLRUAZ ITA
The 2021 Olympics in Tokyo, Japan will feature climbing for the first time with a format that combine three disciplines in the following order: Speed, Bouldering, and Lead Climbing. 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 wins Gold!
Scores are calculated through a 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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