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Reuters Photos: IFSC Climbing World Cup |
LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - The International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) held their Climbing world cup in Japan over the weekend.
Tomas Mrazek (CZE) and Maja Vidmar (SLO) won Gold. I didn’t see an Irish or UK team in the results. Odd? It appears neither country is a member, I wonder is there reason behind this?
On January 27th 2007, the IFSC was born when 48 National Federations voted to create the new International Federation to govern Competition Climbing. The IFSC is a continuation of the International Council for Competition Climbing (ICC) which has been in existence since 1997.
Reuters had a photographer at the event and posted a gallery of the action today.
Latest Comments (3):
a lack of bolts unfortunately :)
If you work out comparisons of grades from trad to sport, some of the hardest routes in the country (E8’s for example, and even they are rare in Ireland) only compare to about 8a on sport (I only really know of one 8c equivalent and that’s Dave McLeod’s E11 in Scotland).
At the climbing cups, they’re ONSIGHTING the equivalent of 8b’s!
I guessed it was bolts (and bolting associations) lacking!
But surprised at UK not being in it.
Basically, none of them are interested!
the other side of it is that only a select bunch of people are actually motivated to climb competitions anyway. Most of them are just keen to climb outdoors and do the odd comp.
Thomas Mrazek wins it very regularly - seems to enjoy it.
Strongmen from the UK just don’t seem interested for a lot of the international comps.
I’m missing our lack of bolts :) Although I spent the weekend at Malham in UK - wow! post about it later…..
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