Held at the Innsbruck Climbing Center (Austria), the 2022 FISU World University Championship Sport Climbing was mainly a Japanese story. Except for the Speed competition, the team from Japan wiped out the concurrence winning 11 of the 12 possible medals in Lead and Boulder. Melina Costanza (USA) was the only athlete to have a […]
Nearly 250 international student-athletes will gather at the “Kletterzentrum Innsbruck” (Innsbruck Climbing Center), the venue of the 2022 FISU World University Championship Sport Climbing, from 13 to 17 June. The Austrian city, which has already hosted several international climbing competitions is considered a Mecca for lovers of this sport. Organised by the University […]
Photos credit: KVÖInnsbruck-Tirol is ready to host the 2022 FISU World University Championship Sport Climbing, after having already successfully organised this year’s IFSC Austria Climbing Open for the first time. The 2022 FISU Championship Sport Climbing event is organised by the University of Innsbruck in collaboration with Unisport Austria – its National University Sports […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
