The 2024–2025 competitors schedule for Canadian climbers was simply launched by Climbing Escalade Canada (CEC). 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 schedule contains Boulder, Lead, and Velocity Nationwide Championships (each Senior and Youth), a Excessive Efficiency Competitors occasion, and Canadian stops alongside the North American Cup Sequence.
The Nationwide Championships are essentially the most prestigious nationwide occasions within the nation. Canada’s prime climbers compete for the possibility to be topped Nationwide Champion in Boulder, Lead, or Velocity.
The Excessive Efficiency Competitors is usually an invite-only comp, the place climbers earned factors primarily based on their closing rankings—as they do in all large nationwide comps. These factors decide which climbers are invited to hitch Canada’s Excessive Efficiency Program, an elite group of athletes coaching to characterize Canada in IFSC World Cup and Olympic competitors.
The Excessive Efficiency comp permits CEC to judge athlete readiness relative to the calls for of IFSC World Cup-level competitors. It additionally provides prime athletes who may need missed earlier comps the chance to point out this potential readiness.
The North American Cup Sequence (NACS) is a comp circuit run by CEC and USA Climbing, the governing physique for comp climbing in the US. The mission of the sequence is to “present a high-level competitors sequence for superior and elite athletes from the Americas to proceed their improvement exterior of World Cup competitors.”
“The NACS is a wonderful alternative for athletes to realize valued expertise at an elite stage,” stated the Govt Director of CEC, Christiane Marceau in 2023. “It reduces the hole between nationwide occasions and IFSC World Cups, including a much-needed improvement step. For Canadian athletes, the NACS stops are additionally an effective way to gather [Continuous National Ranking] factors for Group Canada Choice!”
See beneath for the checklist of newly introduced Canadian comp climbing occasions in 2024 and 2025. You may be taught extra on CEC’s web site right here.
2024 Occasions
- Boulder Nationwide Championships – November 21-22 – Bloc Store, Montreal, QC
- Lead Nationwide Championships – November 24-25 – Canyon Escalade, La Prairie, QC
2025 Occasions
- Excessive Efficiency (HP) Competitors – January 23-27 – Oval, Richmond, BC
- Velocity Nationwide Championships – February 15-16 – Horizon Roc, Montreal, QC
- NACS Boulder – June 21-22 – Location TBD
- NACS Lead and Velocity – August 30 to September 1 – Oval, Richmond, BC
2025 Youth Occasions
- Youth Velocity Nationwide Championships – February 15-16 – Horizon Roc, Montreal, QC
- Youth Boulder Regionals East – April 26-27 – Seven Bays, Halifax, NS
- Youth Boulder Regionals West – April 26-27 – The Hive, Winnipeg, MB
- Youth Boulder Nationwide Championships – Could 15-17 – The Hive, Surrey, BC
- Youth Lead Nationwide Championships – Could 19-20 – Oval, Richmond, BC
