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Sport climbing is provisionally included in the program of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. The final decision will only be made in December 2020.

Last Sunday, the state champion titles in the disciplines of bouldering, lead and in the combined classification were awarded in Innsbruck.

Petra Klingler is Swiss champion in lead climbing. In the men's victory went to Marco Müller. Zoé Egli and Michel Erni won in the category U18.

149 athletes participated in the sixth and last Boulder World Cup of the season in the American ski resort Vail. Once again Slovenian Janja Garnbret won the women's competition. Yoshiyuki Ogata won the men's race.

After a break of just over three weeks, the best boulderers in the world will go to sunny Colorado: in Vail (USA), the 6 will be there. and last Boulder World Cup 2019.

Petra Klingler and Sascha Lehmann Boulder Swiss Champion 2019. In the category U18 Malin Locher and Marius Audenis won.

Adam Ondra explains in his recent video blog how a bouldering World Cup works and what the numbers in the respective rankings mean.

At the penultimate Boulder World Cup of the season in Munich, the Austrian Jakob Schubert and the Slovenian Janja Garnbret took the victory. Germany took second place thanks to Jan Hojer. The best finish for Switzerland was Kevin Heiniger with the 29. Rank. Petra Klingler did not participate in the Munich competition.

On the 18. and 19. May 2019 gathers the climbing elite for the fifth bouldering world cup of the season at the Munich Olympic Stadium.

In the latest issue of the Road to Tokyo video series, Adam Ondra talks about the screw-in style of climbing competitions and explains why he still trains on small, scratchy bars and the campus board.

Slovenian Janja Garnbret Gold took another win at the fourth bouldering world cup of the season. For the men it was the Japanese Tomoa Narasaki.

At the third Bouldering World Cup of the season in Chongqing, China, Slovenia's Janja Garnbret was once again at the top of the podium. In the men's category, the...

The World Cup circus moves on to the Chinese city of Chongqing. The disciplines Speed ​​and Bouldering will be held.

After the World Cup in Meiringen last weekend, this weekend in Moscow continued. Jernej Kruder won with the men and Janja Garnbret with the ladies. Petra Klingler took the best Swiss placing in bouldering with 8. The best placement for Germany was won by Jan Hojer with the 12. Rank. For the Austrians, Jessica Pilz secured a top 10 placement with the 5. Rank.

Next weekend, the second IFSC World Cup of the season takes place in the disciplines of bouldering and speed. Here you can find all information about it.

The Czech Adam Ondra and the Slovenian Janja Garnbret won the first Bouldering World Cup of the season in the sold-out arena in Meiringen. peter...

After 11 years in the SAC Swiss Climbing Team, Rebekka Stotz has decided to renounce international competitions in the future.

From April 5th to 6th, the time has come for the fourth time: In the converted tennis hall in Meiringen, international...

In the third part of the new video series "Road to Tokyo" by Adam Ondra the Czech shows us a special competition format. Climbers measure themselves on the campus board, on rope ladders, on oversized wooden balls and other constructs.

In the second part of Adam Ondra's new video series "Road to Tokyo", about his preparations for the 2020 Summer Olympics, he explains the new format. Nobody has gotten to the point better.

The Organizing Committee of the 2024 Olympics in Paris has submitted a proposal to the International Olympic Committee to abolish the combination rating. The proposal provides for a combined assessment of the disciplines of bouldering and lead climbing. Speed, however, would be rated separately in the future.

Swiss Climbing has defined the Olympic pool Tokyo 2018 after the evaluation of the World Cup results and the World Cup season 2020. Petra Klingler, Anne-Sophie Koller, Sascha Lehmann, Dimitri Vogt and Baptiste Ometz are being specifically promoted and prepared for possible participation in the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. The pool started at the end of 2017 with nine athletes and has been reduced to five during the past year.

Last weekend, the 20 took place. Ice climbing World Cup held in Saas Fee. In a tense lead final, the Swiss Yannick Glatthard won his first World Cup title in front of a home crowd. In the competition we spoke with Pascal Brönimann of Outdoor Research, main sponsor of the event and manufacturer of technical equipment.

At the summer games in Tokyo 2020 climbing is represented for the first time at an Olympiad. The German Alpine Club has now defined who he sends in the women's and men's race for the coveted starting places.