Speed Climbing Competitions
Sponsorships in 2020: Polish Speed Competition
With pandemic restrictions easing in many parts of the world, Poland recently hosted a regional Speed Climbing competition. In a year that has lacked a significant opportunity for athletes to compete we were happy to sponsor an event in the home of World Champion...
Breaking Down the Importance of the IFSC Pan-Ams Championships in an Olympic Year
This week, from Feb. 24–March. 1, marked the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) Pan-American Championships at climbing gym Sender One in Los Angeles, California. Kicking off the 2020 Sport Climbing season, the championships will determine the final...
IFSC Sport Climbing Olympic Format Explained
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IFSC Speed and Lead Climbing World Cup – Wujiang, China 2018
At the IFSC Climbing World Cup Championship in Wujiang, China, Anouck Jaubert of France took home the season title for women’s speed climbing while the fastest time of the event was Juliia Kaplina’s 7.650 seconds race. Jaubert outperformed fellow teammate Aurela...
Youth Olympic Games 2018 Recap
The first ever Youth Olympians of Sport Climbing has concluded at the Summer Youth Olympic (YOG) Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina on October 10th. Sport Climbing featured 42 male and female athletes representing 25 countries. The field of athletes consist of the top...
World Climbing Championship 2018 Recap
After 10 days of competitions among six of the top-scoring men and women athletes, the Combined finals came to an end with the athletes facing off in a Bouldering, Lead, and Speed Climbing showdown for the Combined world title. The six women finalist went head-to-head...
Finding my Apex – Sean McColl
By: Guest Writer, Sean McColl With my path now firmly set on the 2020 Olympic Games, training for speed climbing becomes more and more important. My time needs to get faster and to do this I need more repetitions, more consistency, and more time on the competition...
USA Climbing Changes Rules to Include Auto Belays in Speed Climbing Competition
Released June 1st, 2018 USA Climbing has amended a rule in their Speed Climbing Rules Handbook (Rule 7.2.1) to "eliminate the requirement that speed climbing routes are to be belayed from the ground". Historically, the USAC has only approved team belays for Speed...