The second-to-last girls’s Boulder World Cup of the 2024 season was held yesterday in Prague, Czechia. Staff USA member Natalia Grossman earned gold after being the one athlete to high three of the 4 issues within the finals. The win was her eleventh Boulder World Cup victory.
Issues had been tremendous shut heading into drawback #4, the ultimate boulder of the evening. Grossman had two tops and one zone, as did Naïlé Meignan of France. Australia’s Oceania Mackenzie had two tops. The opening transfer of drawback #4 was wild. The meant beta was for climbers to dyno to a bulbous sloper for the proper hand and a palmed left hand on a big quantity. Each left and proper palms needed to stick at the very same time for the climber to carry the stress.
Meignan and Mackenzie had been ready to do that opening transfer and attain the zone maintain. They had been unable to realize a high although, each getting shut down holding the swing on an especially highly effective transfer to a left hand crimp.
Grossman was the ultimate climber of the evening to try the issue. As a result of she took extra makes an attempt than Meignan to succeed in her earlier two tops, she needed to high the ultimate drawback so as to win gold. She didn’t attempt the meant beta, as a substitute choosing a extra standard, but extra highly effective, proper hand catch on the bulbous sloper. With rather less than a minute left, she caught the transfer on her seventh try. She then climbed shortly to the highest, having no obvious problem with the crimp that shut down her opponents.
“I sort of began to lose perception on the primary transfer [of the problem 4],” stated Grossman after her victory. “My arms had been so drained. I knew what the meant beta was, however I used to be means too drained, so I discovered my very own means. I knew that after I acquired the zone, I like crimps, and I used to be like ‘I need that crimp, I need that end maintain!’”
“This win means a lot to me, greater than any win I’ve had just lately,” she continued. “It signifies that if I imagine in myself, I can do it. [Prague] is among the finest World Cups I’ve been to – among the best crowds. It was superior.”
Grossman is among the finest aggressive climbers on the planet. She had her breakout yr on the World Cup scene in 2021, incomes two Boulder World Cup gold medals, the general Boulder World Cup season, and the Boulder World Championship. In 2022, she once more received the general season for Boulder, choosing up 5 World Cup golds alongside the best way. In 2023, she struggled at first of the season on account of sickness, however she nonetheless ended up profitable two Boulder gold medals and the general season for the third yr in a row.
She certified for the Paris Olympics after profitable in Boulder & Lead Mixed on the Pan American Video games in Fall 2023. In 2024, she received gold on the Boulder World Cup in Salt Lake Metropolis, persevering by a knee damage to take the highest spot. In August, she positioned eleventh general on the Paris Olympic Summer season Video games.
Last Outcomes
- Natalia Grossman (USA) 3T4z 17 18
- Naïlé Meignan (FRA) 2T4z 8 11
- Oceania Mackenzie (AUS) 2T3z 8 6
- Anon Matsufuji (JPN) 2T3z 10 14
- Zélia Avezou (FRA) 1T2z 1 10
- Mao Nakamura 0T3z 0 8
2024 Prague Ladies’s Boulder World Cup Last
