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UIAA Ice Climbing World Tour heads to residence of 2030 Olympic Winter Video games – UIAA Ice Climbing

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The third of 5 World Cups which make up the 2025 UIAA Ice Climbing World Tour will likely be staged in Champagny-en-Vanoise, France, this weekend. The resort lies at coronary heart of the proposed venue plan for the 2030 Olympic Winter Video games hosted by the French Alps. For competitors mountain climbing it gives a uncommon alternative for athletes to compete in a future Olympic setting. The occasion is organized in collaboration with UIAA member affiliation Fédération française des golf equipment alpins et de montagne (FFCAM) and La Plagne resort.

Competitors on Champagny’s magnificent ice tower takes place over three days. Lead qualification and semi-finals are staged on 30 and 31 January. The finals shut the competitors on 1 February. The complete pace occasion is run on the afternoon and night of 31 January. The occasion programme could be discovered right here.

There will likely be quite a few cultural and facet occasions held as a part of the programme together with the European Community for Out of doors Sports activities convention and a Sustainability and Environmental schooling occasion.

Practically 120 athletes from the next member associations have registered: Canada (1), Czechia (5), Finland (4), hosts France (10), Iran (10), Eire (1), Japan (1), Liechtenstein (8), Mongolia (5), the Netherlands (5), Poland (9), Slovakia (6), Slovenia (3), South Korea (11), Spain (4), Switzerland (9), United Kingdom (10), United States (14). Champagny acts because the midway level within the season with two rounds in North America to observe. A full checklist of registered athletes is right here.

Lead preview
Switzerland’s Sina Goetz (200 factors) with two gold medals from as many occasions, begins because the athlete to beat within the girls’s competitors. Marianne van der Steen, Netherlands (131 pts) and reigning world champion Woonseon Shin (112 pts), South Korea, occupy second and third within the World Tour standings. Different constant performers have been Catalina Shirley (110 pts), USA, Eimir McSwiggan, Eire (105 pts) and Lorena Beck (98 pts), LIE.

Within the males’s competitors the Ladevant brothers would be the star sights for the native followers. Former world champion Louna (126 pts) triumphed in Saas-Payment final weekend and can look to beat the 2 athletes above him within the standings – South Korea’s Younggeon Lee (165 pts), a extremely constant performer over current seasons, and his brother Tristan (131 pts), silver medallist in Saas-Payment. Searching for to maneuver onto the World Tour podium is Switzerland’s Benjamin Bosshard (116 pts).

Livestream: Lead Semi-Finals, 09:00 CET, 31 January

Livestream: Lead Finals, 18:30 CET, 1 February

Pace preview
Mongolia’s Selenge Nyamdoo has collected a gold and a silver from two occasions to steer the standings on 180 factors. Catalina Shirley (151 pts), USA, will search to remain in shut competition particularly forward of the 2 pending rounds in North America with world champion Aneta Louzecka (120 pts) hoping to return to the highest of the rostrum this weekend. For the closest chasers Shabnam Aasdi, IRN (91 pts), Sookhee Lee (90 pts) and Lorena Beck, LIE (90 pts) this will likely be a key weekend for his or her World Tour podium ambitions.

Livestream: Pace Finals, 19:00 CET, 31 January

There’s no query who the highest males’s pace ice climber has been over current seasons. Iran’s Mohammadreza Safdarian is one in all solely two athletes to take golds in each World Cups thus far. One other gold will put him near the World Tour title. In pursuit are Kherlen Nyanmdoo, MNG (123 pts), Mohsen Beheshti Rad, IRN (120 pts) and Mandakhbayar Chuluunbaatar, MNG (117 pts). A sample has emerged with Iran and Mongolia changing into the dominant forces in males’s pace climbing.

Livestream info is detailed above. For a timezone convertor please click on right here.

The UIAA Ice Climbing World Tour leaves Europe following the weekend in Champagny with three occasions in North America lined up; the World Youth Championships in Ouray (7-9 February) earlier than the ultimate two World Cups in Longmont, Colorado (21-23 February) and the season nearer in Edmonton, Canada (27 February-1 March)

Belongings for Media and Followers

Quick-form content material, highlights, podium posts and updates can be found on the UIAA social media channels, notably Fb and Instagram.

Occasion photographs can be found on the UIAA Flickr channel.

Stay outcomes are obtainable from the UIAA Ice Climbing web site.

A number of ‘better of’ photographs for media, ready for the 2024-2025 season, could be discovered right here.

Press releases will likely be obtainable for all World Cup occasions, each previews (-3 days earlier than) and opinions (day +1). Please subscribe to obtain press releases on to your inbox.

Please go to iceclimbing.sport for all occasion info, particulars on occasion programmes and timings, athlete registrations, stay outcomes and extra.

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Picture credit score: UIAA/Nils Paillard

 



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