With the ultimate occasion this previous weekend in Seoul, South Korea, the 2024 IFSC Lead World Cup is a wrap. With stops in Wujiang, Innsbruck, Chamonix, Briançon, Koper, and Seoul, this 12 months’s collection noticed the world’s greatest Lead climbers and largest names in aggressive climbing vie for gold on some superb routes.
Within the males’s Lead World Cup season, Toby Roberts of Nice Britain got here out on prime. He received gold in Wujiang and Koper and bronze in Innsbruck and Chamonix, incomes him sufficient factors to win the general collection. It’s the 19-year-old’s first time profitable an general World Cup season. He received Olympic gold in Paris in August. He additionally positioned fifth general within the Boulder World Cup this 12 months.
In ladies’s, Jessica Pilz positioned first general for the second 12 months in a row. Pilz had a really strong Lead season, profitable gold in Seoul and silver in Chamonix and Koper. She additionally positioned fourth in Innsbruck. On the Paris Olympics, she earned bronze. Along with her general victory in 2023 and now once more in 2024, Pilz is the primary Austrian girl to assert the title since Johanna Ernst in 2009. She’s additionally the primary competitor not named Janja Garnbret or Chaehyun Search engine optimization to win since 2015.
Crew Japan members Shion Omata and Sorato Anraku positioned second and third general in males’s. Within the males’s prime 10 season-end rankings, six of the spots have been held by Crew Japan athletes. Pilz was adopted by Janja Garnbret and Ai Mori in second and third respectively. Garnbret solely solely competed in three Lead occasions this 12 months, however received gold in every.
It was a little bit of a wierd World Cup 12 months, with many prime athletes (together with Roberts and Pilz) selecting to focus their efforts on coaching for the Olympics, skipping many occasions. However that doesn’t take away from Roberts or Pilz’s performances and victories this season. Throughout each the lads’s and girls’s top-10 Lead season rankings, Japan earned eight spots, the USA, France, Slovenia, and Austria every earned two, and Nice Britain, Switzerland, South Korea, and Italy every took one spot.
2024 Males’s Lead World Cup High 10
- Toby Roberts (3380) [GBR]
- Shion Omata (2915) [JPN]
- Sorato Anraku (2845) [JPN]
- Zento Murashita (2665) [JPN]
- Sam Avezou (2330) [FRA]
- Taisei Homma (2140) [JPN]
- Satone Yoshida (2080) [JPN]
- Sascha Lehmann (2040) [SUI]
- Shuta Tanaka (1980) [JPN]
- Colin Duffy (1765) [USA]
2024 Girls’s Lead World Cup High 10
- Jessica Pilz (3220) [AUT]
- Janja Garnbret (3000) [SLO]
- Ai Mori (2610) [JPN]
- Chaehyun Search engine optimization (2370) [KOR]
- Mei Kotake (2355) [JPN]
- Annie Sanders (2330) [USA]
- Matea Potzi (2315) [AUT]
- Laura Rogora (2235) [ITA]
- Zelia Avezou (1625) [FRA]
- Mia Krampl (1600) [SLO]
