Boulder World Cup 2011 report - Vail

A great final round at the IFSC Bouldering World Cup of Vail assigned the victory to the Austrian team, with Fischhuber and Stöhr on the highest step of the podium. The atmosphere in Vail, in the framework of the well known Teva Mountain Games, was vibrant with excitement and expectation for what promised to be a perfect competition, and the cheers of the audience accompanied the athletes all the time, psyching them up.
Kilian Fischhuber mastered the finals by flashing all boulders, while his Russian rival, Dmitry Sharafutdinov, made one attempt too much in sending all four problems. Third, with a bronze medal, the German Jonas Baumann, with two tops in 4 attempts.
Anna Stöhr, in great shape, was the only woman to top all four boulders, while Alex Puccio (USA) and Melissa Le Neve sent only 3 in respectively 3 and 8 attempts.
Kilian now is very close to the first ranked in the Boulder WC Ranking 2011, the Russian Sharafutdinov; Anna leads at a distance the women ranking, with Akiyo Noguchi (JPN) in second position.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Boulder World Cup
• bouldering
• bouldern
• Kilian Fischhuber
• Anna Stöhr
• climbing competition
• Kletterwettbewerbe
• Jonas Baumann
• Juliane Wurm

[Eliasn]

Such a great video!

[theultimateshoe]

2 good things about this video:

1. The music drowns out the crappy commentating

2. The side by sides really expose weakness' the Americans and others have with the volume'y spacial problems (see interesting interview with Daniel Woods @ 'The Boulder book' blog)

[MrTreesaregood]

awesome song! anybody know the title or artist?

[xXDabest007Xx]

@JoshuaTaylor1992 or a twinkie and a fat kid

[Ryanissupperawesome]

what is leonel messi doing bouldering? 07:58

[MongoOfBongo]

name of the song ??

[365DIERNIE]

Who's the girl in 17:35?

[JoshuaTaylor1992]

imagine how awesome/intense it would be to put a banana at the top and watch a monkey scale that shit

[Stevieboy7]

ahh... #3 girl in green is very cute.

[CcRrOoNnOo]

alguien me podria decir como se llama la chava alemana.

somebody can tell me the name of the german girl please

[rtxln]

Ofcourse anyone can go and try to qualify. But you have to train very hard for many years and also have a body suited for extreme strength and flexibility. To reach these levels one will have to be very single-minded and you will surely get in contact with the competition business along the way.