Futaba Ito and Yoshiyuki Ogata are the winners of the Adidas Rockstars 2019 competition

This weekend, the elite of the international sports climbing scene once again gathered for a very special kind of competition: over 55 top athletes from more than 17 nations were invited to Adidas Rockstars this year.

The top 6 ladies and men qualified for the grand finale, where they climbed in two rounds to qualify for the Super Final. There they faced each other at the so-called "Superboulder", where they simultaneously climbed an identical route side by side.

Results Ladies Top 6 :

Results Men's Top 6:

1 - Futaba Ito (JPN)
2 - Janja Garnbret (SLO)
3 - Ai Mori (JPN)
4 - Miho Nonaka (JPN)
5 - Shauna Coxsey (GBR)
6 - Lucka Rakovec (SLO)

1 - Yoshiyuki Ogata (JPN)
2 - Florian Klingler (AUT)
3 - Jongwon Chon (KOR)
4 - Kai Harada (JPN)
5 - Kokoro Fujii (JPN)
6 - Gregor Vezonik (SLO)

In the superfinal, the two best athletes climbed one on one for the title: Futaba Ito (JPN) and Yoshiyuki Ogata (JPN) were the quickest to conquer the final and all-important boulder. Also Florian Klingler (AUT) and Jongwon Chon (KOR) with the gentlemen and Janja Garnbret (SLO) and Ai Mori from Japan in the women, could be happy about the second and third place respectively.

The super final between Futaba Ito and Janja Garnbret

The super final between Florian Klingler and Yoshiyuki Ogata

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Credits: Cover picture Vladek Zumr

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