The penultimate Lead World Cup of the 2024 season begins tomorrow in Koper, Slovenia. It’s the primary World Cup for the reason that conclusion of the Paris Olympics initially of August. Many Paris Olympians are registered to compete on the occasion, together with climbing’s solely two-time Olympic champion, Janja Garnbret of Slovenia.
Garnbret will probably be joined in Koper by lots of her Paris rivals together with Oceania Mackenzie, Jessy Pilz, Zelia Avezou, Erin McNeice, Laura Rogora, Camilla Moroni, Chaehyun Search engine marketing, and Mia Krampl. The lads’s comp doesn’t have as a lot Olympic expertise attending, however some enormous names will nonetheless be there. Paris gold medalist Toby Roberts and silver medalist Sorato Anraku are attending. So are Olympians Sam Avezou, Dohyun Lee, Sascha Lehmann, and Luka Potocar.
Non-Olympians, Mejdi Schalck and Yannick Flohe are anticipated to attend, as are 10 Workforce Japan members who didn’t get the prospect to compete in Paris together with Taisei Homma and Yoshiyuki Ogata. Just a few huge names are skipping Koper together with Ai Mori, Miho Nonaka, Oriane Bertone, Brooke Raboutou, Natalia Grossman, Jakob Schubert, Alberto Gines Lopez, Adam Ondra, Alex Megos, Tomoa Narasaki, Jesse Grupper, and Colin Duffy, amongst others.
With Koper being the second final World Cup of yr, the stakes are excessive for who will win the title of Total Lead World Cup Champion for the 2024 season. In Girls’s, Mori is presently the chief with 3610 factors, adopted carefully behind by Garnbret with 3000 factors. Garnbret has the chance to tug forward of Mori with the occasion in Koper. In Males’s, it’s a good race between Anraku (3040 factors) and Roberts (2990 factors). Koper will determine who heads into the ultimate Lead World Cup of the yr in Seoul on high.
A number of of Canada and the US’ high expertise will probably be competing in Koper, though no Workforce USA Paris Olympians are collaborating within the occasion. See beneath for the complete listing of Canadian and American athletes registered to compete within the Koper Lead comp.
Males
- Ross Fulkerson (USA)
- Nathan Sato (USA)
Girls
- Cedar Pidgeon (CAN)
- Molly Dreher (CAN)
- Annie Sanders (USA)
- Adriene Akiko Clark (USA)
- Olivia Ogier (USA)
Livestream Schedule
The Koper Lead World Cup semi-finals and finals will probably be livestreamed on the IFSC’s Youtube Channel, with the streams embedded beneath. Right here’s the livestream schedule:
Girls and Males’s Lead semi-finals – Friday September 6 – 2:00pm ET (11:00am PT)
Males’s Lead finals – Saturday September 7 – 2:00pm ET (11:00am PT)
Girls’s Lead finals – Saturday September 7 – 3:00pm ET (12:00pm PT)
We’ll be overlaying the outcomes so make sure you verify again in to Gripped Indoor Climbing for the newest information.
