Czech climber Jiri Pelikan finished 16th at the competition of the World Cup in ice climbing in Saas Fee, Switzerland, that took place on Friday and Saturday February 2-3 2007.
Petr Sindel from Ostrava (North East of Czech Republic) was the 4th on the Slovak Cup competition in bouldering, that took place the last Saturday (January 27th 2007) in Zilina (Western Slovakia). Except Czech foreign participation there were also climbers from Austria and Poland in the Zilina competition.
The sport climbing commission of the Czech Mountaineering union has launched an opinion poll among the climbers whether they prefere to climb qualification routes in Czech Cup lead climbing competitions in flash or onsight climbing style.
Markus Bendler from Austria and Jenny Lavarda from Italy won today the finals of the competition of the World Cup in ice climbing in Valle di Daone, Italy.
Czech climber Standa Hovanec ended on the 14th place on Friday at the World Cup competition in ice climbing in Valle di Daone, Italy, in the one of two qualification groups. Another Czech Jirka Pelikán finished the 15th in the other group. Altogather 21 climbers continues from the both qualification.
Adam Ondra (13) won the 1st Czech ranking comp 2007
Adam Ondra (13 years old) and Nelly Kudrová (26) won the 1st open ranking competition 2007 in lead climbing on Saturday, January 13, in Police nad Metuji, North Est Bohemia, Czech Republic.
World Chamionship and World Cup in ice climbing starts
The series of the international ice climbing competitions 2007 starts to the end of this week. The first part of the World Championship in ice climbing takes place on Friday January 19th in Vall di Daone, Italy. Czech participation there is expected.
Czech climber Jiri Pelikan finished 16th at the competition of the World Cup in ice climbing in Saas Fee, Switzerland, that took place on Friday and Saturday February 2-3 2007.
Stanislav Hovanec was 47th, Libor Danis 57th in the competition of altogether 74 men.
The podium results:
men:
1 Evgeny Kryvotsheytsev (UKR)
2 Alexey Tamilov (RUS)
3 Simon Wandeler (SUI)