The ultimate Lead World Cup earlier than the Paris Olympics wrapped up yesterday in Briançon, France. Within the males’s class, Workforce Japan swept the rostrum with Zento Murashita taking first, Satone Yoshida second, and Shion Omata third. Mei Kotake of Japan received gold within the girls’s comp.
Japan isn’t any stranger to sweeping podiums. The staff took the highest three spots on the males’s Boulder World Cup in Innsbruck a couple of weeks in the past – the nation’s third-ever Boulder World Cup podium sweep. Eventually yr’s Briançon Lead World Cup, Workforce 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 lads swept the rostrum whereas teammate Ai Mori received gold in girls’s.
There’s at the moment no different nationwide staff on the comp circuit with the depth of expertise of Workforce Japan. When their finest climbers sit out of an occasion – as Tomoa Narasaki, Sorato Anraku, Ai Mori, Miho Nonaka, and others did for this comp – the staff can nonetheless has a ton of expertise they will depend on. On this Briançon comp for instance, six of the eight males’s finalists had been from Japan. At each World Cup cease this yr, Workforce Japan athletes have held a minimum of two podium spots in one of many gender classes, a mind-blowing stat.
Briançon marks the first-ever gold medals for each Murashita and Kotake. “I’m very completely satisfied, this result’s a bit stunning to me,” mentioned Murashita after his win. “I used to be in a position to climb to my restrict, and climb very effectively.” Kotake was additionally suprised together with her gold-medal win. “I nonetheless can’t imagine I’ve received my first gold,” she mentioned. “It’s been an extended journey for me to get on the World Cup podium. With lots of the high climbers not competing, I assumed it was my time to win, and I’m completely satisfied I made it.” Kotake was joined on the rostrum by Paris Olympian Laura Rogora of Italy in second and Austrian Mattea Pötzi in third.
Males’s Closing Outcomes
- Zento Murashita (JPN) 47+
- Satone Yoshida (JPN) 45
- Shion Omata (JPN) 42+
- Max Bertone (FRA) 42+
- Sebastian Halenke (GER) 42+
- Mototaka Ishizu (JPN) 41+
- Shuta Tanaka (JPN) 39
- Yuta Imaizumi (JPN) 38+
Girls’s Closing Outcomes
- Mei Kotake (JPN) 49+
- Laura Rogora (ITA) 45
- Mattea Pötzi (AUT) 42+
- Rosa Rekar (SLO) 41+
- Jain Kim (KOR) 39+
- Aleksandra Totkova (BUL) 39+
- Natsumi Oda (JPN) 29+
- Flora Oblasser (AUT) 27+
2024 Briançon Lead World Cup Finals
