2008 IFSC Climbing World Cup

International sport climbing competition 2008 IFSC Climbing World Cup 18 April – 16 November 2008 AUT Hall, Austria ITA Trento, Italy FRA Réunion, France SUI Grindelwald, Switzerland USA Vail, United States ITA Fiera di Primiero, Italy CHN Qinghai, China FRA Montauban, France FRA Chamonix, France ITA Val Daone, Italy SUI Bern, Switzerland AUT Imst, Austria BEL Puurs, Belgium RUS Moscow, Russia SLO Kranj, Slovenia (B) AUT Kilian Fischhuber (L) NED Jorg Verhoeven (S) RUS Evgenii Vaitsekhovskii (C) AUT David Lama (B) AUT Anna Stöhr (L) AUT Johanna Ernst (S) POL Edyta Ropek (C) JPN Akiyo Noguchi 2007 2009 The 2008 IFSC Climbing World Cup was held in 15 locations. Bouldering competitions were held in 7 locations, lead in 6 locations, and speed in 6 locations. The season began on 18 April in Hall, Austria and concluded on 16 November in Kranj, Slovenia. The top 3 in each competition received medals, and the overall winners were awarded trophies. At the end of the season an overall ranking was determined based upon points, which athletes were awarded for finishing in the top 30 of each individual event. The winners for bouldering were Kilian Fischhuber and Anna Stöhr, for lead Jorg Verhoeven and Johanna Ernst, for speed Evgenii Vaitsekhovskii and Edyta Ropek, and for combined David Lama and Akiyo Noguchi, men and women respectively. The National Team for bouldering was Austria, for lead Austria, and for speed Russian Federation. Highlights of the season In bouldering, at the World Cup in Moscow, in the women's final, there were three athletes who flashed all 4 boulders (Katharina Saurwein of Austria, Natalija Gros and Katja Vidmar both of Slovenia), however Katharina Saurwein of Austria was the only one who flashed all boulders in the competition (qualification, semifinal, final) and thus taking the win. At the end of the season, Austrian athletes, Kilian Fischhuber and Anna Stöhr clinched the overall titles of the season for men and women respectively, making it double bouldering titles for Austria. In lead climbing, Johanna Ernst of Austria, in her first year of eligibility to compete in the World Cup circuit, made her debut in bouldering in Hall, Austria. Then she competed in lead climbing and won 3 out of 6 Lead World Cups and became the overall women's lead climbing winner of the season. Overview 2008 World Cups http://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php/world-competition/categories#!year=2008&filter%5bcat_id%5d=69&filter%5bcup%5d=!RANKINGS: IFSC Climbing Worldcup 2008 http://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php/world-competition/rankings?year=2008 No. Location D G Gold Silver Bronze 1 AUT Hall 18–19 April 2008 B M AUT Kilian Fischhuber 3t5 3b5 RUS Dmitrii Sharafutdinov 2t2 2b2 USA Daniel Woods 2t4 3b4 W AUT Anna Stöhr 3t3 4b8 RUS Yulia Abramchuk 3t8 4b9 SWE Angelica Lind 2t2 4b5 2 ITA Trento 27 April 2008 S M RUS Evgenii Vaitsekhovskii 12.580 RUS Sergei Sinitcyn 13.590 VEN Manuel Escobar 13.130 W VEN Lucelia Blanco 21.570 POL Edyta Ropek 23.320 UKR Olena Ryepko 20.850 3 FRA Réunion 2–3 May 2008 B M AUT David Lama 4t9 4b5 AUT Kilian Fischhuber 4t9 4b9 NED Jorg Verhoeven 4t9 4b9 W AUT Anna Stöhr 4t6 4b5 JPN Akiyo Noguchi 4t10 4b8 RUS Yulia Abramchuk 3t5 4b8 4 SUI Grindelwald 30–31 May 2008 B M RUS Dmitrii Sharafutdinov 2t5 4b9 AUT Kilian Fischhuber 2t6 3b6 AUT David Lama 1t1 3b3 W AUT Anna Stöhr 3t11 4b8 FRA Charlotte Durif 1t1 4b8 JPN Akiyo Noguchi 1t2 4b14 5 USA Vail 6–7 June 2008 B M AUT Kilian Fischhuber 2t2 4b4 ITA Gabriele Moroni 2t2 4b5 USA Paul Robinson 1t1 4b5 W USA Alex Johnson 2t5 4b7 AUT Katharina Saurwein 2t7 4b8 AUT Anna Stöhr 2t7 4b10 6 ITA Fiera di Primiero 13–14 June 2008 B M AUT David Lama 3t3 4b6 AUT Kilian Fischhuber 3t5 3b3 CAN Sean McColl 3t7 4b6 W AUT Anna Stöhr 4t5 4b4 SLO Katja Vidmar 3t4 4b5 RUS Yulia Abramchuk 2t3 3b3 7 CHN Qinghai 27–28 June 2008 L M CZE Tomáš Mrázek 47 AUT Jakob Schubert 41- JPN Sachi Amma 38- W AUT Johanna Ernst Top SLO Natalija Gros 43+ FRA Charlotte Durif 42- S M CHN QiXin Zhong 7.350 CHN Xiaojie Chen 8.480 CHN Guangpu Li 8.220 W CHN Chunhua Li 10.630 CHN Cuifang He 13.060 CHN CuiLian He 11.750 8 FRA Montauban 4–5 July 2008 B M RUS Dmitrii Sharafutdinov 3t4 4b5 RUS Rustam Gelmanov 2t2 4b4 AUT David Lama 2t4 4b7 W JPN Akiyo Noguchi 4t5 4b5 RUS Yulia Abramchuk 4t6 4b5 SLO Natalija Gros 3t4 3b4 9 FRA Chamonix 12–13 July 2008 L M NED Jorg Verhoeven 42- JPN Sachi Amma 37 SLO Klemen Becan 35 W AUT Johanna Ernst 53 AUT Angela Eiter 43- SLO Mina Markovič 40 S M CHN QiXin Zhong 7.470 CHN Ning ZHANG 10.440 UKR Maksym Osipov 8.750 W CHN Cuifang He 11.290 CHN Chunhua Li 11.870 CHN CuiLian He 12.340 10 ITA Val Daone 19–20 July 2008 S M POL Lukasz Swirk 17.040 RUS Evgenii Vaitsekhovskii fall UKR Maksym Styenkovyy 17.110 W POL Edyta Ropek 25.190 UKR Svitlana Tuzhylina 27.300 RUS Valentina Yurina 31.360 11 SUI Bern 12–13 September 2008 L M ESP Patxi Usobiaga Lakunza 32- NED Jorg Verhoeven 31+ CZE Tomáš Mrázek 31 W SLO Maja Vidmar 37- AUT Johanna Ernst 37- UKR Olga Shalagina 35- 12 AUT Imst 19–20 September 2008 L M AUT David Lama 50+ ESP Ramón Julián Puigblanqué 50 CAN Sean McColl 41+ W SLO Mina Markovič 60 AUT Johanna Ernst 60- SLO Maja Vidmar 59+ 13 BEL Puurs 26–27 September 2008 L M ESP Ramón Julián Puigblanqué 48- CZE Tomáš Mrázek 46- NED Jorg Verhoeven 41- W SLO Maja Vidmar 52+ SLO Mina Markovič 52+ AUT Johanna Ernst 52 S M VEN Leonel De Las Salas 16.170 RUS Evgenii Vaitsekhovskii 16.250 UKR Maksym Styenkovyy 17.980 W UKR Svitlana Tuzhylina 25.650 RUS Anna Stenkovaya 29.360 UKR Olena Ryepko 27.400 14 RUS Moscow 31 October – 2 November 2008 B M RUS Rustam Gelmanov 4t5 4b4 AUT Kilian Fischhuber 3t3 3b3 UKR Stanislav Kleshnov 2t2 4b4 W AUT Katharina Saurwein 4t4 4b4 SLO Natalija Gros SLO Katja Vidmar 4t4 4b4 – S M RUS Evgenii Vaitsekhovskii 16.600 VEN Manuel Escobar 18.540 RUS Valeriy Vorobyev 18.170 W UKR Olena Ryepko 27.030 POL Edyta Ropek 28.870 VEN Lucelia Blanco 27.270 15 SLO Kranj 15–16 November 2008 L M SLO Klemen Becan 29 NED Jorg Verhoeven 29- ESP Patxi Usobiaga Lakunza 26- W AUT Johanna Ernst Top SLO Maja Vidmar 43- JPN Akiyo Noguchi 36+ OVERALL B M AUT Kilian Fischhuber 520.00 AUT David Lama 375.00 RUS Dmitrii Sharafutdinov 335.00 W AUT Anna Stöhr 508.00 JPN Akiyo Noguchi 381.00 RUS Yulia Abramchuk 378.00 L M NED Jorg Verhoeven 380.00 CZE Tomáš Mrázek 355.00 ESP Ramón Julián Puigblanqué 321.00 W AUT Johanna Ernst 460.00 SLO Maja Vidmar 345.00 SLO Mina Markovič 325.00 S M RUS Evgenii Vaitsekhovskii 411.00 RUS Sergei Sinitcyn 280.00 CHN QiXin Zhong 273.00 W POL Edyta Ropek 366.00 UKR Olena Ryepko 332.00 UKR Svitlana Tuzhylina 327.00 C M AUT David Lama 522.00 NED Jorg Verhoeven 489.00 CZE Tomáš Mrázek 383.00 W JPN Akiyo Noguchi 587.00 AUT Johanna Ernst 507.00 SLO Natalija Gros 506.00 NATIONAL TEAMS B A AUT Austria 1775 RUS Russian Federation 1452 France 1329 L A AUT Austria 1264 SLO Slovenia 1125 France 1089 S A RUS Russian Federation 1627 UKR Ukraine 1488 CHN People's Republic of China 1294 References External links Category:World Climbing Series Category:2008 in sport climbing