Remo Schläpfer
Remo Schläpfer

IFSC World Cup in China: two new world records

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At the third competition of the season in Nanjing, the Iranian Reza Alipourshenazandifar and the Russian Iuliia Kaplina broke the previous world records in speed climbing. The British Shauna Coxsey and the Japanese Keita Watabe won the bouldering discipline.

Petra Klingler secured the 9 with a top in five tries. Rank. Andrea Kümin undercut her own record in the speed discipline and finished 11.63 with 20 seconds. The full results can be found below or on www.ifsc-climbing.org.

The results from Nanjing

Results IFSC World Cup Nanjing - China

Shauna Coxsey in the final

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The highligts of the discipline Speed


Credits: Cover picture Shauna Coxsey

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