The UIAA Ice Climbing World Tour makes its conventional cease to Cheongsong, South Korea from 10-12 January. The occasion is each the primary of the 5 World Cups on three continents which make up the 2025 UIAA Ice Climbing World Tour, partnered by Outside Analysis, and consists of the annual Asian Championships as a part of its programme.
Practically 120 athletes from the next member federations will participate: Canada (2), Czechia (2), France (5), China-Hong Kong (6), Iran (6), Eire (1), Japan (10), Kazakhstan (3), Liechtenstein (3), Mongolia (8), Netherlands (2), Poland (7), Slovenia (2), Spain (3), Switzerland (5), United Kingdom (12), United States (12). Host nation South Korea brings a squad of 27 athletes. A full listing of registered athletes is obtainable right here.
Throughout each the lads’s and girls’s competitions, shut and intriguing competitors is forecast. Will the sizeable South Korean crew take benefit on house territory? How will former world champion and a number of World Cup winner Louna Ladevant (France) honest on his return to competitors? Will the younger and burgeoning Spanish crew make the step as much as claiming podium locations on the world degree? Can World Champions in pace Mohammadreza Safdarian (Iran) and Aneta Louzecka (Czechia), fundamental photograph, proceed to shine in each disciplines? Will a robust Swiss time that includes World Cup medallists Sina Goetz, Vivien Labarile and Benjamin Bosshard make a gap spherical assertion? And what number of athletes can the spectacular contingents from the UK and the US will contest the ultimate rounds of competitors?
Historically the South Korean crew carry out strongly in Cheongsong. Final 12 months the hosts took 5 of the 12 medals on provide with Woonseon Shin and Younghye Kwon utilizing their guile and expertise to take the golds in lead. Younggeon Lee claimed silver within the males’s occasion. Shin and Lee would go on to take each the World Tour and the World Championship crowns. They’re each among the many registered athletes for Cheongsong (South Korea’s Apple County) the place crowd favorite and former world champion Heeyong Park will even compete.
Spectators on the 2024 UIAA Ice Climbing World Cup in Cheongsong. Credit score: UIAA/Rhea Kang
Motion begins on Saturday 11 January with the lead qualification and whole pace competitors. Sunday 12 January is reserved for the lead semi-finals and finals. The complete occasion programme is obtainable right here.
The UIAA will present livestream of each the pace finals (18:00 native time – 11 January) and the lead semi-finals (08:30 native time -12 January) and lead finals (14:30 native time – 12 January). For a time zone convertor please use the next hyperlink. Embed codes for the livestreams could be discovered under. Please subscribe to the UIAA YouTube channel for reminders and updates.
Belongings for Media and Followers
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