For the fifth yr in a row, a Crew Japan climber has received the general IFSC World Cup title in males’s bouldering. In 2019, Tomoa Narasaki received the general season. Yoshiyuki Ogata then received in each 2021 and 2022. Final yr, World Cup newcomer Sorato Anraku took the sequence by storm, putting first total after the season’s six occasions. He was simply 16 years previous on the time. After one other profitable season, he took the general boulder title once more this yr.
Anraku’s 2024 Boulder World Cup season began out robust. He received silver in Keqiao, China in April. A month later, he received gold in Salt Lake Metropolis. On the finish of June, he earned bronze in Innsbruck. After successful silver on the Paris Olympics in August, his Boulder World Cup performances haven’t been as robust. He positioned 4th in Prague final month and 14th in Seoul yesterday.
Anraku was joined on the 2024 Boulder World Cup Sequence podium by his teammates Meichi and Tomoa Narasaki. It’s the primary time the 2 brothers have stood atop a World Cup Sequence podium collectively. It’s the second time ever that Japan has swept the general sequence podium. In 2022, Yoshiyuki Ogata positioned first, Tomoa positioned second, and Kokoro Fujii positioned third.
Japan isn’t any stranger to sweeping podiums at particular person World Cup occasions. The workforce took the highest three spots on the males’s Boulder World Cup in Innsbruck this yr – the nation’s third-ever Boulder World Cup podium sweep. Finally yr’s Briançon Lead World Cup, Crew Japan extremely swept the highest six spots within the males’s closing. Two months later on the Wujiang Lead World Cup, they swept the highest 4 spots. On the Boulder & Lead Mixed World Cup in 2022, the boys swept the rostrum whereas teammate Ai Mori received gold in girls’s.
There’s at the moment no different nationwide workforce on the comp circuit with the depth of expertise of Crew Japan. When their greatest climbers sit out of an occasion, the workforce can nonetheless has a ton of expertise they’ll depend on. On the finish of the 2024 males’s Boulder World Cup season, 5 Crew Japan athletes sat within the prime 10. Anraku, the Narasaki brothers, and Sohta Amagasa took the highest 4 rankings respectively, and Ritsu Kayotani took eighth.
These closing total rankings are decided by factors athletes get awarded based mostly on their placement at every particular person occasion. The upper their placement at an occasion, the extra factors they’re awarded. You’ll be able to view the top-10 ranked males’s boulder athletes within the 2024 Boulder World Cup under.
Prime 10 Males’s Boulder Athletes in 2024 Boulder World Cup
- Sorato Anraku (3365) [JPN]
- Meichi Narasaki (2860) [JPN]
- Tomoa Narasaki (2690) [JPN]
- Sohta Amagasa (2416) [JPN]
- Toby Roberts (2365) [GBR]
- Dohyun Lee (2280) [KOR]
- Maximilian Milne (1571.7) [GBR]
- Ritsu Kayotani (1375) [JPN]
- Jongwon Chon (1331.5) [KOR]
- Manuel Cornu (1323.5) [FRA]
