Besides the fact that Tomas Mrazek has not been very successful in the first World Cup competitions in lead climbing 2007 (he is the 4th at the moment), the Czech youth team, especially Adam Ondra (who is first in his category), have been successful.

Adam Ondra (14) has won the two last competitions of the European Youth Series in Veliko Tarnovo (Bulgaria) and in Leipzig (Germany) in July. It has lifted him to 1st place from the 10th when he competed in Imst (Austria).

Some brief info and photos from the last competitions: Leipzig (Germany) 07./08.07.2007: Adam Ondra in category B reached 1st place Martin Stranik in category A 2nd place Silvie Rajfová was 5th place in the category of junior girls.

The results of the other Czechs – Lucie Hrozova 12, Jan Chvala 16, Edita Vopatova 21, Tereza Cermakova 21, Filip Harna 30, Daniela Kotrbova 30, Debora Sandova 31, Tereza Pivodova 32, Ondrej Nevelik 32, Lukas Skrejpek 38.

Leipzig: Adam Ondra, finals

Leipzig: Martin Stranik, finále

Silvie Rajfova, finále

the podium - category B

the podium - category A

The full results on IFSC-climbing.org.

Veliko Tarnovo (Bulgaria) 30.06./01.07.2007: 10 young Czechs participated, 5 of them continued to finals. Martin Stranik (category A) and Adam Ondra (category B) reached the firsts postitions.

Silva Rajfova was 2nd in category of junior girls. Lucie Hrozova was the 3rd, Anna Cermakova was the 9th in category A.

The results of the other Czechs - Tereza Pivodova 11, Daniela Kotrbova 11, Martin Sifra 12, Lukas Skrejpek 14, Filip Harna 15.

Veliko Tarnovo: Filip Harna

Veliko Tarnovo: Martin Stráník

Veliko Tarnovo: Czech team

The full results on FBAC.net.

The next competition EYS takes on the next weekend 21./22.07.2007 in Warsaw (Poland). Then there will be the World Championship in Equador ( 23.-26.08.2007).

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Also the smallest Czech kids have been successful reacently. At the Youth Event in Ravenna (Italy) 22.-24.06.2007 Radovan Sifra and Jana Vincourkova won their categories.

Results from Ravenna:

Boys: Radovan Sifra - 1 Igor Sindelar - 4 Jan Dosedel – 7 Pavel Krutil – 8 Miroslav Doseděl – 11

Girls: Jana Vincourkova - 1 Andrea Pavlincova – 5 Lucie Kupcikova – 6

Ravenna: Andrea Pavlincova Ravenna: Radovan Šifra Ravenna: Jan Doseděl Ravenna: Radovan Sifra the winner of the category C Ravenna: Czech team