How did the Bests see the World Cup? Ramon, Sandrine, Tomas
W.C. Prague
Ramón: They were boulders, I have to train more on various walls as the French; Sandrine: The routes suited me, because I rather boulder, Prague from Charles Bridges was beautiful, I’ll read CzechClimbing.com; Tomas: The surety was a mistake, now I want more rocks. Read how we talk with the best climbers on the Prague World Cup. ... full story
There were some questions from readers about climbing of Damaris Knorr (GER) at the Prague World Cup competition in difficulty climbing on last Sunday. She did the second attempt after a technical incident and could be originally the 3rd. Then she was the 6th. Therefore we asked for explanation of the President of Jury of World Cup in Prague Martin Joisten. He explained: ... full story
22:00 - The competition, which was won by Ramon Julian Puigblanque (ESP) and Sandrine Levet (FRA) and the Czech favorite Tomas Mrazek was unfortunately the 6th, had excellent atmosphere, the Prague hall in Ruzyne was completely full of fans. The main organizer of the competition the Head of Commission of Czech sport climbing Slavek Vomacko was happy from extra ordinal interest of public and that the responses even from abroad was only positive.
For the symbolic entrance fee (20 ... full story
24:00 - The Sunday (the 2nd day of the competition) continues here.
23:00 - The competition had excelent atmosphere on Saturday. There was more than 300 people as audience, organizers estimated. ... full story
10.10. - The missing Italian group has applied in the end and Italians will be on the competition.
The the team of forrunners is already completed with the ICC delegat from France. Their job is to build climbing routes and it is probably completed by now. The routes were basicaly built by the Czech-Slovak team from Prague - Andrej Chrastina and Jiri Pribil. 9. 10. - This wall was built as a promotion for the World Cup competition and it is located on Vitezne namesti (metro ... full story
Polish climber Pobran wins 3rd comp of Czech Cup in difficulty
Festak 2003 - film festival
Polish climber Marek Pobran from Wroclaw won 3rd competition of Czech Cup in difficulty climbing held on Saturday August 30th during International Mountaineering film festival in town of Teplice nad Metuji in East Bohemia. ... full story
How to climb for World Champion? Tomas Mrazek on video
Chamonix
How to climb for World Champion? Look at pictures from World Championship in difficulty climbing 2003 in Chamonix (France) and at video of Tomas Mrazek a winner of Championship climbing on final route. ... full story
The nominations have been decided for the 4th edition of the Arco Rock Legends, scheduled to take place on September 4th, 2009 at Arco (Garda Trentino, Italy) on the eve of the XXIII Rock Master. The SALEWA ROCK AWARD and the LA SPORTIVA COMPETITION AWARD, the sport climbing Oscars, are up for grabs. ... full story
The last annual of this extraordinar competition took place for the 20th time in the altitude 1450 m. in the small French town (24./25.07.2009). The weather was unusually warm and the finals attracted thousands of visitors. ... full story
The 26th annual International Mountaineering Film Festival (also known as Festak) is coming in 4 weeks in Teplice nad Metuji (North-East Bohemia) on August 27-30 2009. ... full story
Adam Ondra is in South Africa at the moment (he got brought over for the SA Petzl Rock and Road). Among things... he sent Two to win (aka Streetfighter) 8c on his second attempt at Oudtshoorn. ... full story
Czech Libor Hroza won competition in speed climbing OuTdoor Speed Cup on OuTdoor fair in Friedrichshafen, Germany on Saturday 18.7.2009. ... full story
World Cup in lead and speed climbing in Chamonix, France on July 12-13:
Czech Libor Hroza was the 3rd in speed, his sister Lucie Hrozova in the same discipline was the 8th. Adam Ondra finished 5th in lead climbing. ... full story
Invitation for another annual of international bouldering competition came from France. The event names Tout a blocs (TAB) and takes place in Quartz in l'Argentiere la Bessee (Briancon, eastern France) on July 30/August 2, 2008. ... full story
World Cup in bouldering 2009 conclusion in Eindhoven
World Cup in bouldering 2009 concluded in Eindhoven last weekend by the last competition without participation of Czechs. Kilian Fischhuber from Austria and Akiyo Noguchi from Japan won the Eindhoven competition and also overall series 2009. ... full story
Invitation for the another annual of the International bouldering competition came from our friend from Hungary. The competition for kids and adults takes place on June 19/21 2009 in town Zsombó, near city Szeged, southern Hungary, close to Romanian and Serbian border ... full story
The only Czech representative young girl Silva Rajfova finished on 23rd place in the World Cup competition in bouldeirng in Vail, USA this weekend. European climbers considered the competition different from the old continent style. Larger holds, longer moves and jumps. ... full story
Chalk in Czech Labe valley sandstones from IXb (7a)
Czech mountaineering union announced that the local climbing organization agreed with the nature preservation authorities usage of chalk in Czech Labe (Elbe) valley sandstones only on routes from IXb (7a) and higher grade. ... full story
Aleksandra Balakireva and Rustam Gelmanov from Russia won the World Cup competition in bouldering in Vienna, Austria last weekend. The best Czech was Adam Ondra who finished 11th. ... full story