Over the weekend, the well-known Rock Grasp competitors occurred in Arco, Italy. The celebrated comp has been held every year since 1987 and has seen a lot of climbing’s finest stand atop the rostrum. This 12 months’s Rock Grasp featured two occasions, KO Boulder and Lead Duel. Every occasion had its personal separate rating and winners, however the title of 2024 Rock Grasp champion was awarded to the athletes with one of the best mixed rating throughout the 2 disciplines.
KO Boulder is a novel bouldering format the place climbers compete on a sequence of more and more troublesome blocs. Every spherical progressively eliminates rivals till just one winner stays.
The Lead Duel comp is pace climbing on steroids. This event type format combines components of each the normal Lead and Pace competitors codecs. In every race, two athletes climb on similar, parallel routes, gunning for the highest as quick as they will – you gained’t see any shaking out or chalking up mid-route. The athlete that climbs the very best or reaches the highest the quickest strikes onto the following spherical of races. In comparison with the traditional Pace route present in IFSC or Olympic competitors, the Lead Duel routes are rather more troublesome. Because the identify suggests, the Lead Duel routes are additionally climbed on lead reasonably than autobelay.
Within the KO Boulder comp, Jessica Pilz of Austria and Yannick Flohè of Germany got here out on high. Two Italian climbers – Camilla Moroni and Laura Rogora – took second and third respectively behind Pilz. Flohè was adopted by Hannes Van Duysen of Beligum in second and Czechia’s Adam Ondra in third.
The Lead Duel comp was thrilling as ever. Ondra was the favorite main into the comp. Recognized for his quick, dangerous climbing type, he has seven Rock Grasp victories to his identify. In his first race at this 12 months’s occasion, he reached the top of the route nicely forward of competitor Van Duysen. He shot for the buzzer and missed, permitting Van Duysen to maneuver on to the semi-finals.
Within the ladies’s Lead Duel, Pilz as soon as once more took first, simply securing herself the title of 2024 Rock Grasp champion. It’s her first time profitable the occasion. She was adopted by Sara Coper of Slovenia in second and Austrian teammate Mattea Pötzi in third within the Lead Duel occasion. In within the general mixed rating, Moroni took silver and Coper bronze.
Filip Schenk of Italy took the highest spot within the Lead Duel, besting Van Duysen within the closing race of the evening. Flohè took third after beating Slovenian Luca Potocar within the small closing. Flohè was topped the general Rock Grasp champion, with Van Duysen incomes silver and Schenk bronze.
Ladies’s KO Boulder Outcomes
- Jessica Pilz (AUS)
- Camilla Moroni (ITA)
- Laura Rogora (ITA)
- Lucia Dörffel (GER)
- Mattea Pötzi (AUT)
- Sara Copar (SLO)
- Vita Lukan (SLO)
- Oceania Mackenzie (AUS)
Ladies’s Lead Duel Outcomes
- Jessica Pilz (AUS)
- Sara Copar (SLO)
- Mattea Pötzi (AUT)
- Camilla Moroni (ITA)
- Oceania Mackenzie (AUS)
- Vita Lukan (SLO)
- Lucia Dörffel (GER)
- Laura Rogora (ITA)
Ladies’s Mixed Outcomes
- Jessica Pilz (AUS)
- Camilla Moroni (ITA)
- Sara Copar (SLO)
- Mattea Pötzi (AUT)
- Laura Rogora (ITA)
- Lucia Dörffel (GER)
- Oceania Mackenzie (AUS)
- Vita Lukan (SLO)
Males’s KO Boulder Outcomes
- Yannick Flohè (GER)
- Hannes Van Duysen (BEL)
- Adam Ondra (CZE)
- Jan-Luca Posch (AUT)
- Michaeal Piccolruaz (ITA)
- Filip Schenk (ITA)
- Luka Potocar (SLO)
- Stefano Ghisolfi (ITA)
Males’s Lead Duel Outcomes
- Filip Schenk (ITA)
- Hannes Van Duysen (BEL)
- Yannick Flohè (GER)
- Luka Potocar (SLO)
- Stefano Ghisolfi (ITA)
- Adam Ondra (CZE)
- Jan-Luca Posch (AUT)
- Michaeal Piccolruaz (ITA)
Males’s Mixed Outcomes
- Yannick Flohè (GER)
- Hannes Van Duysen (BEL)
- Filip Schenk (ITA)
- Adam Ondra (CZE)
- Jan-Luca Posch (AUT)
- Luka Potocar (SLO)
- Stefano Ghisolfi (ITA)
- Michaeal Piccolruaz (ITA)
Rock Grasp KO 2024 Boulder
Rock Grasp 2024 Lead Duel
