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After years of hosting the IFSC Bouldering World Cup in the Bernese Oberland, the organizers in Meiringen received a cancellation from the IFSC. Now the Bouldering World Cup is returning to Bern, the capital.

Between 2016 and 2022, Meiringen was an important stop in the international competition circuit every year. The organizing committee around President Niklaus Kohler of the Haslital Mountain Festival would have liked to continue the event, but opinions differed between the organizers and the IFSC (Lacrux reported).

Back in Bern after a two-year break

After the Climbing World Championships took place in the federal capital in 2023, Villar was the only Swiss venue on the IFSC's program last year with the Lead World Cup. This year, two competitions will again take place on Swiss soil, on the one hand the well-known Lead World Cup in Villars, and on the other hand another Bouldering World Cup.

Highlights of the last Bouldering World Cup in Meiringen 2022

Hopefully the World Cup organizing association has better control of the finances than the organizers of the 2023 Climbing World Championships.

The latter will take place from June 13th to 15th in the festival hall of the Expo site in the city of Bern. The event is organized by the local association "IFSC Sport Climbing World Cup Bern". It remains to be hoped that the organizers will have better control of the finances, as was the case at the 2023 Climbing World Championship. At that time, the organizers registered a deficit of 1.7 million Swiss francs.

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Credits: Cover picture Jan Virt / IFSC

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