Wearside offered the setting for the ultimate act of the UIAA Ice Climbing Continental Tour. Following six occasions in as many international locations and on two continents, the general victors have been confirmed.
Over 80 athletes contested the occasion in Sunderland, the primary time that the UIAA Ice Climbing World Tour has visited England. The occasion was organised by the British Mountaineering Council and the Scottish Dry-Tooling Membership.
The Continental season could also be over. Nonetheless, the UIAA Ice Climbing World Tour has one epic act to return. From 16-18 February, Edmonton, Canada will host the biennial UIAA Ice Climbing World Championships and the ultimate World Cup of the season. A full preview press launch shall be revealed on Tuesday 13 February.
The occasion in Sunderland heralded two new seasonal gold medallists. Olga Kosek whose final gold medal got here in Slovakia in 2021 received the ladies’s occasion to take second place within the general rankings. It has been a powerful season for the Polish athlete who has two second locations at Continental degree and in an indication of her versatility, a World Cup bronze medal velocity. The lads’s title went to a darkish horse. A sixth place end in Utrecht in December was Slovenian athlete Gregor Segel’s finest end result so far. The 25-year previous went into the ultimate in Sunderland because the outsider having completed eighth in qualifying. Nonetheless, as the one athlete to high the route he would declare a powerful gold medal.
Lorena Beck, Liechtenstein, took the ladies’s silver and Japan’s Haruko Takeuchi the bronze. For Beck it was a ninth medal of the season between World Cup, Continental and youth occasions. Takeuchi claimed her second Continental Open medal following a silver in Utrecht. Wealthy reward having additionally registered three fourth locations.
The ultimate girls’s rating reads:
Marianne van der Steen, NED, 392 factors
Olga Kosek, POL, 354
Aneta Louzecka, CZE, 329
The lads’s Continental Tour leaders surprisingly all didn’t make the ultimate in Sunderland. Spain’s Javier Cano Blazquez and Jorge Veiga Rodriguez in addition to Switzerland’s Jonathan Brown couldn’t replicate their current type into the competitors. Romania’s David Bouffard took silver, a second medal of the season, a title he shared with Patrick Inderbitzin of Switzerland.
It meant the main positions went unchanged with Blazquez finally taking the title.
The ultimate males’s rating reads:
Javier Cano Blazquez, ESP, 313 factors
Will Morris, GBR, 277
Jonathan Brown, SUI, 269
A replay of the livestream from Sunderland could be discovered right here:
Outcomes from Sunderland could be discovered right here.
Photograph credit: Luke Briggs
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