Championships

  Ukraine’s Fedir Samoilov took the Men’s Lead and Combined titles on the final day in Bratislava. Mei Kotake of Japan won the Women’s Lead competition on Saturday while France’s Julia Chanourdie comes home with the Women’s Combined victory.   BRATISLAVA, June 23, 2018 – The World University Sport Climbing Championship finished in Bratislava with […]

He dedicated his life to Sport Climbing and is working also this week in Bratislava at the FISU World University Championship. We asked Jérôme Meyer, the 2008 European Boulder Champion and current Head of Olympic Coordination at the IFSC, about his thoughts and impressions of the championship in Slovakia, this sport and its future.   […]

 The World University Sport Climbing Championship moved to the spectacular Eurovea Gallery for Thursday’s qualification round of Sport Climbing’s Bouldering discipline.  45 women and 57 men fought for the six spots in Friday’s final.  Spectators lined the climbing wall in Bratislava, Slovakia as the world’s best university climbers sought qualification for the Bouldering discipline at […]

World University CHampionship competitors practicing the day before the first competition day, which took place in the Lead discipline of Sport Climbing BRATISLAVA, SLOVAKIA – The best climbers in the world met at the K2 Climbing Centre, with the eight best men and women qualifying for the final in the Lead discipline.   Nearly 150 […]

They started calling him Spiderman from Handlová. But he does not like it much. 17-year-old sport climber Peter Kuric will represent Slovakia at the Youth Olympic Games in Argentina, but he also envisions competings at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.   How do you prepare for the top competition of this season in Buenos Aires? I […]

BRATISLAVA, June 20, 2018 – Today marks the start of the World University Sport Climbing Championships in Bratislava, where the world’s best student climbers will take on Slovakia’s highest climbing wall!     From 20-23 June, approximately 150 competitors from 26 countries will compete in the Slovakian capital, hoping to secure the title of world’s […]