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IFSC World CUP Millau 2013: Austria's Golden Duo on Top In INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF SPORT CLIMBING IFSC WORLD CUP MILLAU 2013: AusTRIA’S GOLDEN ELEASE DUO ON TOP IN FRANCE R Anna Stöhr and Kilian Fischhuber are the winners of the second IFSC Bouldering World Cup last Saturday in Millau, France! Only in the finals Austria’s top boulderers racked up their victories in a more than thrilling competition. It was a bouldering competition as all climbing First competition, first victory for fans could dream: The IFSC Bouldering World Kilian Fischhuber Cup in Millau was marked by quite some In the men’s competition reigning world challenging boulder problems and many champion Dmitrii Sharafutdinov led the field turnarounds in the ranking lists. High-level after the semi-finals in front of surprisingly climbing was shown from the start - with the strong Jorg Verhoeven (made his first OFFICIAL PRESS OFFICIAL PRESS result that top boulderers like Momoka Oda, Bouldering final since 2008) and Bouldering 2013 Melissa Le Neve, Sean McColl or Jakob Schubert MONDAY World Cup winner 2012, Rustam Gelmanov. 8 already dropped out in the semi-finals. APRIL But in the finals Kilian Fischhuber, 5th after the Second stage, second victory for Anna Stöhr semis, got into his stride: In his first competition of the season Austria’s fivefold Bouldering Last year’s Overall Bouldering World Cup champion was the only one to top out on three winner Anna Stöhr was the lowest to qualify in final boulder problems and so walked away with the women’s final. But with a great performance the gold medal. Places two and three went to in the final round the Austrian double world Guillaume Glairon Mondet who gained three champion worked her way up and went head to ranks from the semi-finals and Netherland’s head with Britain’s youngster Shauna Coxsey Jorg Verhoeven. and Akiyo Noguchi from Japan, second and third after the semi-finals. In the end one attempt at After this great competition weekend in France the last boulder problem made the decision – the IFSC Bouldering World Cup is moving on to gold number two for Anna Stöhr this season, Austria: Kitzbühel will be the venue of the next silver and bronze for Shauna Coxsey and Akiyo World Cup stop on April 26-27! Check out further Noguchi! informations on www.ifsc-climbing.org/ _PHOTOS Press photos are free for use in press releases (copyright Austria Climbing Federation – Oewk, Heiko Wilhelm) IFSC Official Climbing Wall Supplier Download link: https://www.box.com/s/q07jflictkiednuj1qj2 INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF SPORT CLIMBING _IFSC CLIMBING WORLD CUP (B) - MILLAU (FRA) 2013 APRIL 5-6, 2013 FINAL RESULTS MEN BOULDERING Final RESULTS WOMEN BOULDERING Rank Name Nation Final Rank Name Nation Final 1 Fischhuber Kilian AUT 3t9 3b5 1 Stöhr Anna AUT 4t13 4b13 ELEASE 2 Glairon Mondet FRA 1t1 4b10 2 Coxsey Shauna GBR 4t14 4b13 R Guillaume 3 Noguchi Akiyo JPN 3t7 4b9 3 Verhoeven Jorg NED 1t1 3b4 4 Puccio Alex USA 3t7 3b7 4 Ennemoser Lukas AUT 1t1 3b7 5 Wurm Juliane GER 2t3 4b5 5 Sharafutdinov Dmitrii RUS 1t1 3b13 6 Saurwein Katharina AUT 1t5 3b10 6 Gelmanov Rustam RUS 1t2 2b6 Link to full results Men: Link to full results Women: http://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php/world-competi- http://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php/world-competi- tion/calendar#!comp=1453&cat=6 tion/calendar#!comp=1453&cat=5 _IFSC CLIMBING WORLD CUP 2013 - TOP 10 (06.04.2013) MEN BOULDERING WOMEN BOULDERING Rank Name Nation Points Rank Name Nation Points OFFICIAL PRESS OFFICIAL PRESS 1 Sharafutdinov Dmitrii RUS 151 1 Stöhr Anna AUT 200 2013 2 G. Mondet Guillaume FRA 127 2 Coxsey Shauna GBR 131 MONDAY 8 3 Schubert Jakob AUT 106 3 Noguchi Akiyo JPN 120 APRIL 4 Gelmanov Rustam RUS 102 3 Puccio Alex USA 120 4 Verhoeven Jorg NED 102 5 ODA Momoka JPN 117 6 Fischhuber Kilian AUT 100 6 Wurm Juliane GER 94 7 Hori Tsukuru JPN 99 7 Saurwein Katharina AUT 87 8 Caleyron Thomas FRA 75 8 Retschy Monika GER 65 9 Baumann Jonas GER 71 9 Leslie-Wujastyk Mina GBR 62 10 Ennemoser Lukas AUT 55 10 Shemulinkina Tatiana RUS 60 _FOR MORE INFORMATION to request archive photos and footages, please contact IFSC Media Relations Team: Pierre-Emmanuel DANGER _VIDEOS Press Officer, systemd YouTube: www.youtube.com/ifscchannel Mobile: 00336 72 230 735 _PhotoS Email: [email protected] For a selection of photos available shortly after each event, Anne FUYNEL please visit the Photo Gallery on www.ifsc-climbing.org IFSC Official Climbing Wall Supplier Director of Marketing & Communications, IFSC _SOCIAL MEDIA Mobile: 00336 40 469 961 Stay connected to latest IFSC and Sport Climbing updates, Email: [email protected] please follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Linked’In..
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