The 2024 Canadian Boulder Nationwide Championships had been held on Thursday and Friday on the Bloc Store Chabanel in Montreal, Quebec. British Columbia’s Kindar McNamee and Quebec’s Babette Roy received gold, with each athletes being the one rivals of their respective gender classes to prime all 4 of the issues within the finals.
McNamee was joined on the rostrum by TJ Foley and Lucas Uchida. Each climbers topped three of the 4 issues, however Foley took much less makes an attempt than Uchida, incomes him the silver. In ladies’s, Sienna Chow earned silver with three tops and Molly Dreher took bronze with two tops.
McNamee, 21, is considered one of Canada’s prime aggressive climbers. He has plenty of expertise in IFSC competitors, collaborating in World Cups in 2019, 2022, 2023, and 2024. He positioned second on the Canadian Boulder Nationwide Championships in 2022 and fourth in 2023. He received gold eventually 12 months’s Canadian lead Nationwide Championships. Earlier than Friday’s occasion, McNamee was ranked seventh nationally in Boulder.
Roy, 22, has been at performing on the prime of the Canadian comp climbing scene for years. In 2022, she received the Boulder Nationwide Championships. She didn’t compete within the 2023 occasion. Like McNamee, she has loads of IFSC World Cup expertise, competing in comps in 2018, 2022, 2023, and 2024. Earlier than Friday’s occasion, Roy was ranked third nationally in Boulder.
The Canadian Boulder Nationwide Championships are run by Climbing Escalade Canada (CEC), the nationwide governing physique for competitors climbing in Canada, as acknowledged by the Canadian Olympic Committee and Worldwide Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC). The outcomes of the Boulder and Lead occasions contribute to nationwide athlete rankings, which in the end decide who will get invited to be within the nationwide Excessive Efficiency Program (HPP) and symbolize Canada in IFSC World Cup and Olympic competitors.
Many massive names in Canadian comp climbing didn’t take part at this 12 months’s Boulder Nationwide Championships as a result of they had been as an alternative competing on the Pan American Championships in Santiago, Chile. These embrace Oscar Baudrand, Matthew Rodriguez, Ian Tan, Zach Richardson, Dylan Smith, Jacqueline Ho, Anna Kelley, Evangelina Briggs, Emilia Callanan, and Cedar Pidgeon.
Males’s Outcomes
- Kindar McNamee (BC) 4T4z 7 7
- TJ Foley (AB) 3T4z 8 10
- Lucas Uchida (ON) 3T4z 9 8
- Man McNamee (BC) 3T3z 9 5
- Hugo Dorval (QC) 2T3z 4 6
- Leo Santoprete (ON) 1T2z 6 9
Ladies’s Outcomes
- Babette Roy (QC) 4T4z 4 4
- Sienna Chow (BC) 3T3z 3 3
- Molly Dreher (ON) 2T2z 4 3
- Caiya Taylor-Ainslie (BC) 2T2z 4 4
- Elise Villeneuve (AB) 1T3z 1 3
- Sabrina Thayer-Head (QC) 1T3z 1 7
Canadian Boulder Nationwide Championships Livestream Replay
