2008 IFSC Climbing World Cup

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.

2008 IFSC Climbing World Cup
Location Hall, Austria

Trento, Italy
Réunion, France
Grindelwald, Switzerland
Vail, United States
Fiera di Primiero, Italy
Qinghai, China
Montauban, France
Chamonix, France
Val Daone, Italy
Bern, Switzerland
Imst, Austria
Puurs, Belgium
Moscow, Russia

Kranj, Slovenia
Date18 April – 16 November 2008
Champions
Men(B) Austria Kilian Fischhuber

(L) Netherlands Jorg Verhoeven
(S) Russia Evgenii Vaitsekhovskii

(C) Austria David Lama
Women(B) Austria Anna Stöhr

(L) Austria Johanna Ernst
(S) Poland Edyta Ropek

(C) Japan Akiyo Noguchi
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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

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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

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No. Location D G Gold Silver Bronze
1   Hall
18–19 April 2008
B M   Kilian Fischhuber
3t5 3b5
  Dmitrii Sharafutdinov
2t2 2b2
  Daniel Woods
2t4 3b4
W   Anna Stöhr
3t3 4b8
  Yulia Abramchuk
3t8 4b9
  Angelica Lind
2t2 4b5
2   Trento
27 April 2008
S M   Evgenii Vaitsekhovskii
12.580
  Sergei Sinitcyn
13.590
  Manuel Escobar
13.130
W   Lucelia Blanco
21.570
  Edyta Ropek
23.320
  Olena Ryepko
20.850
3   Réunion
2–3 May 2008
B M   David Lama
4t9 4b5
  Kilian Fischhuber
4t9 4b9
  Jorg Verhoeven
4t9 4b9
W   Anna Stöhr
4t6 4b5
  Akiyo Noguchi
4t10 4b8
  Yulia Abramchuk
3t5 4b8
4   Grindelwald
30–31 May 2008
B M   Dmitrii Sharafutdinov
2t5 4b9
  Kilian Fischhuber
2t6 3b6
  David Lama
1t1 3b3
W   Anna Stöhr
3t11 4b8
  Charlotte Durif
1t1 4b8
  Akiyo Noguchi
1t2 4b14
5   Vail
6–7 June 2008
B M   Kilian Fischhuber
2t2 4b4
  Gabriele Moroni
2t2 4b5
  Paul Robinson
1t1 4b5
W   Alex Johnson
2t5 4b7
  Katharina Saurwein
2t7 4b8
  Anna Stöhr
2t7 4b10
6   Fiera di Primiero
13–14 June 2008
B M   David Lama
3t3 4b6
  Kilian Fischhuber
3t5 3b3
  Sean McColl
3t7 4b6
W   Anna Stöhr
4t5 4b4
  Katja Vidmar
3t4 4b5
  Yulia Abramchuk
2t3 3b3
7   Qinghai
27–28 June 2008
L M   Tomáš Mrázek
47
  Jakob Schubert
41-
  Sachi Amma
38-
W   Johanna Ernst
Top
  Natalija Gros
43+
  Charlotte Durif
42-
S M   QiXin Zhong
7.350
  Xiaojie Chen
8.480
  Guangpu Li
8.220
W   Chunhua Li
10.630
  Cuifang He
13.060
  CuiLian He
11.750
8   Montauban
4–5 July 2008
B M   Dmitrii Sharafutdinov
3t4 4b5
  Rustam Gelmanov
2t2 4b4
  David Lama
2t4 4b7
W   Akiyo Noguchi
4t5 4b5
  Yulia Abramchuk
4t6 4b5
  Natalija Gros
3t4 3b4
9   Chamonix
12–13 July 2008
L M   Jorg Verhoeven
42-
  Sachi Amma
37
  Klemen Becan
35
W   Johanna Ernst
53
  Angela Eiter
43-
  Mina Markovič
40
S M   QiXin Zhong
7.470
  Ning ZHANG
10.440
  Maksym Osipov
8.750
W   Cuifang He
11.290
  Chunhua Li
11.870
  CuiLian He
12.340
10   Val Daone
19–20 July 2008
S M   Lukasz Swirk
17.040
  Evgenii Vaitsekhovskii
fall
  Maksym Styenkovyy
17.110
W   Edyta Ropek
25.190
  Svitlana Tuzhylina
27.300
  Valentina Yurina
31.360
11   Bern
12–13 September 2008
L M   Patxi Usobiaga Lakunza
32-
  Jorg Verhoeven
31+
  Tomáš Mrázek
31
W   Maja Vidmar
37-
  Johanna Ernst
37-
  Olga Shalagina
35-
12   Imst
19–20 September 2008
L M   David Lama
50+
  Ramón Julián Puigblanqué
50
  Sean McColl
41+
W   Mina Markovič
60
  Johanna Ernst
60-
  Maja Vidmar
59+
13   Puurs
26–27 September 2008
L M   Ramón Julián Puigblanqué
48-
  Tomáš Mrázek
46-
  Jorg Verhoeven
41-
W   Maja Vidmar
52+
  Mina Markovič
52+
  Johanna Ernst
52
S M   Leonel De Las Salas
16.170
  Evgenii Vaitsekhovskii
16.250
  Maksym Styenkovyy
17.980
W   Svitlana Tuzhylina
25.650
  Anna Stenkovaya
29.360
  Olena Ryepko
27.400
14   Moscow
31 October – 2 November 2008
B M   Rustam Gelmanov
4t5 4b4
  Kilian Fischhuber
3t3 3b3
  Stanislav Kleshnov
2t2 4b4
W   Katharina Saurwein
4t4 4b4
  Natalija Gros
  Katja Vidmar
4t4 4b4
S M   Evgenii Vaitsekhovskii
16.600
  Manuel Escobar
18.540
  Valeriy Vorobyev
18.170
W   Olena Ryepko
27.030
  Edyta Ropek
28.870
  Lucelia Blanco
27.270
15   Kranj
15–16 November 2008
L M   Klemen Becan
29
  Jorg Verhoeven
29-
  Patxi Usobiaga Lakunza
26-
W   Johanna Ernst
Top
  Maja Vidmar
43-
  Akiyo Noguchi
36+
OVERALL B M   Kilian Fischhuber
520.00
  David Lama
375.00
  Dmitrii Sharafutdinov
335.00
W   Anna Stöhr
508.00
  Akiyo Noguchi
381.00
  Yulia Abramchuk
378.00
L M   Jorg Verhoeven
380.00
  Tomáš Mrázek
355.00
  Ramón Julián Puigblanqué
321.00
W   Johanna Ernst
460.00
  Maja Vidmar
345.00
  Mina Markovič
325.00
S M   Evgenii Vaitsekhovskii
411.00
  Sergei Sinitcyn
280.00
  QiXin Zhong
273.00
W   Edyta Ropek
366.00
  Olena Ryepko
332.00
  Svitlana Tuzhylina
327.00
C M   David Lama
522.00
  Jorg Verhoeven
489.00
  Tomáš Mrázek
383.00
W   Akiyo Noguchi
587.00
  Johanna Ernst
507.00
  Natalija Gros
506.00
NATIONAL TEAMS B A   Austria
1775
  Russian Federation
1452
  France
1329
L A   Austria
1264
  Slovenia
1125
  France
1089
S A   Russian Federation
1627
  Ukraine
1488
  People's Republic of China
1294

References

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  1. ^ "2008 World Cups".
  2. ^ "RANKINGS: IFSC Climbing Worldcup 2008".
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