Brief resume:

Sport climbing

The Czech climber Tomas Mrazek was the World Champion in the Championship in Chamonix (France).

The Czech climbing girl Silvie Rajfová was the World Champion in the Championship of youth.
Vera Kotasova was the 5th in the World Cup in bouldering.
There was the World Cup competition in Czech republic (Prague, October 11th and 12th) again.

There are some plans for the upcoming year: to make new and perhabs better rules for Czech competition climbing (the details are going to be published here), to organize another World Cup competition in Czech Republic (Brno, November 2004) and International championship of Czech Republic (May 2004).

Mountains:

The Czech Mountaineering Union declared the following ascents of the year:

Category the middle mountains sports routes:
Tofana di Rozes „Czech Direct“ (Dolomiten, Italy)
The first ascent  9+ RP UIAA, 6. – 7.8. 2003
T. Sobotka, L. Mázl, O. Beneš

Tofana di Rozes „Dream of Tofana“ (Dolomiten, Italy)
The first ascent 9+/10- RP UIAA, 9.-10. 8. 2003
T. Sobotka, L. Mázl, O. Beneš

Category bigwalls:

Pik October (3850 m) – „Ochtokurova Pobeda“ (Ak-Su valley, Pamiro-Alaj, Kyrgystan)
The first acsent 8+/9-, 10.-19.7. 2003
M.Holeček, D. Šťastný, O. Vašek

The folowing ascent was honored without the titel of ascent of the year:

Cima Ovest – „Akut“ (Tre Cime goup, Dolomity, Italy)
10- UIAA, 15.7. 2003, RP team style, except 2 pitches
Dušan Janák, Stanislav Hovanec

No another ascent was honored in the other categories.