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) Kilian Fischhuber

(L) Jorg Verhoeven
(S) Evgenii Vaitsekhovskii

(C) David Lama
Women(B) Anna Stöhr

(L) Johanna Ernst
(S) Edyta Ropek

(C) Akiyo Noguchi

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

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 Tomás 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 Markovic
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+
Tomás Mrázek
31
W Maja Vidmar
37-
Johanna Ernst
37-
Olga Shalagina
35-
12 Imst
19 - 20 September 2008
L M David Lama
50+
Ramón Julian Puigblanque
50
Sean McColl
41+
W Mina Markovic
60
Johanna Ernst
60-
Maja Vidmar
59+
13 Puurs
26 - 27 September 2008
L M Ramón Julian Puigblanque
48-
Tomás Mrázek
46-
Jorg Verhoeven
41-
W Maja Vidmar
52+
Mina Markovic
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
Tomás Mrázek
355.00
Ramón Julian Puigblanque
321.00
W Johanna Ernst
460.00
Maja Vidmar
345.00
Mina Markovic
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
Tomás 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

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