The 2024 Canadian Lead Nationwide Championships have been held on Sunday and Monday at Canyon Escalade in La Prairie, Quebec. British Columbia’s Man McNamee and Caiya Taylor-Ainslie earned gold, outperforming their Canadian opponents. Within the total comp, Zoe Yi of america bested Taylor-Ainslie for the highest spot.
McNamee gained gold after almost topping the lads’s closing route. He had a tricky time clipping the ultimate quickdraw, selecting as an alternative to proceed climbing and lunge for the ultimate maintain. He was awarded maintain 33. McNamee was joined on the rostrum by two Alberta-based athletes: Evan Lau with silver and and TJ foley with bronze. They each fell shifting in the direction of maintain 30.
In ladies’s, it was a really tight competitors with the highest three climbers being separated by one maintain every. American Zoe Yi fell shifting in the direction of maintain 35, Taylor-Ainslie fell reaching for maintain 34, and Babette Roy of Quebec fell shifting for maintain 33. With this end, Yi gained the general comp, however Canadian Nationwide Championship medals have been awarded to Taylor-Ainslie (gold), Roy (silver), and Sienna Chow (bronze).
McNamee isn’t any stranger to medal-winning finishes at Canadian Nationwide Championships. Final 12 months he gained silver in each Boulder and Lead. In 2022, he gained gold in each disciplines. In 2019, he gained the Lead Nationals and in 2020, he gained the Boulder Nationals. He has plenty of expertise in IFSC competitors, taking part in World Cups in 2019, 2022, 2023, and 2024 and World Championships in 2021 and 2023. Earlier than Monday’s occasion, McNamee was ranked fifth nationally in Lead.
Taylor-Ainslie is an up-and-comer within the Canadian comp-climbing scene. She had an unimaginable displaying at this 12 months’s Nationals, incomes gold in Lead and putting fourth in Boulder. Earlier than Monday’s occasion, she was ranked eighth nationally in Lead and 14th in Boulder. She was not a member of Canada’s Nationwide Crew in 2024.
The Canadian Boulder Nationwide Championships are run by Climbing Escalade Canada (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 outcomes of the Boulder and Lead occasions contribute to nationwide athlete rankings, which in the end decide who will get invited to be within the nationwide Excessive Efficiency Program (HPP) and symbolize Canada in IFSC World Cup and Olympic competitors.
Many massive names in Canadian comp climbing didn’t take part at this 12 months’s Boulder Nationwide Championships as a result of they have been as an alternative competing on the Pan American Championships in Santiago, Chile. These embrace Oscar Baudrand, Matthew Rodriguez, Ian Tan, Zach Richardson, Dylan Smith, Jacqueline Ho, Anna Kelley, Evangelina Briggs, Emilia Callanan, and Cedar Pidgeon.
Males’s Outcomes
- Man McNamee (BC) 33
- Evan Lau (AB) 29+
- TJ Foley (AB) 29+
- Maxime Thérien (QC) 29
- Joshua Heckroodt (QC) 20+
- Louka Boivin (QC) 20+
- Samuel Tiukuvaara (ON) 20+
- Hugo Dorval (QC) 15+
Ladies’s Outcomes
- Zoe Yi (US) 34+
- Caiya Taylor-Ainslie (BC) 33+
- Babette Roy (QC) 32+
- Sienna Chow (BC) 30
- Riley Doherty (ON) 29+
- Cedar Hendry (QC) 29+
- Chloe Earle (BC) 29+
- Sasha Duchene (BC) 29
- Brooke White (AB) 26+
2024 Canadian Lead Nationwide Championships Livestream Replay
