Boulder WC 2010 report #1 - Greifensee

The Boulder World Cup 2010 will be a thrilling affair, at least for the boys! Current champion Kilian Fischhuber and wonder boy Adam Ondra tied at the finals in Switzerland's Greifensee with Kilian only winning because his better semi final performance. Bouldering contests are much more experience dependend than lead events. After floating through most of the qualification and the first semi final problems, Adam temporarily lost it (as you can see in the clip) and looked like, well, the seventeen year old boy that he actually is!
In the finals though he gave Kilian a tough run for the money. Very impressevely Kilian dealt with the pressure of Adam flashing problem #3 and #4. It will be very interesting to observe this duell over the course of the season.
As for the girls, Jacky Godoffe's less than inspired route setting in my opinion left a lot to be desired. For the future there is quite some room for improvement to get the girl problems up the standard of the boys. It was a close decission between current champion Akiyo Noguchi, Chloé Graftiaux and the final winner, Alex Johnson from the States.
Shot with my "2010 toy guerrilla camera set", consisting of a Nikon D5000 and 2 Kodak Zx1. Of course the quality is solala, but the bag is cheap and light :-)

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Adam Ondra
• Kilian Fischhuber
• Juliane Wurm
• Jonas Baumann
• bouldering
• Boulder Word Cup
• IFSC
• Akiyo Noguchi
• Chloé Graftiaux
• Alex Johnson

[tomchaps]

Wow, did the guy on the left at 5:00 celebrate finishing that mantel too early, and slip off without completing the problem while standing on a ledge?

Oops. Kinda like that snowboarder falling at the finish line...

[slopergroper]

Great! While you may have complaints about the quality (dunno why, actually), your editing is everything that the competing mountain2b vid's editing isn't. Nice work! This is what I think comp coverage should show: the key performances in a way that allows you to see why the winner won. Thanks for the great video!

[jlundqvist]

you*

[jlundqvist]

Where can du get that iphone app in the start of this clip (i know i can get it in the appstore, but i'm not sure what to search for) thank you!

[breedingpitmetal]

@lazz6 Adam Ondra

[93mesam]

@FoolishFool93 i think its safe to say he is already one of the greatest...

[evanpkto]

are you allowed to mono the bolt hole on a hold? i figured that would be cheating

[atlanta85]

Cooles Video mit sau cooler Mukke^^

ALE servus ;-)

[ErikKiliam]

ALE SUPA! SUUPA!

[TheDusan93vb]

MUSIC SUCKS!!!

[BreakfastBentoBox]

Gay.