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IFSC CLIMBING WORLD CUP LAVAL 2014: SE 2014 QUEEN: AKIYO NOGUCHI

The 2014 IFSC Boulder World Cup series finished up with a bang this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, June 26-28, in the small French city of Laval. At the same time, the 2014 IFSC Paraclimbing series kicked off with a top-roped Bouldering competition. Spectators were privileged with a comprehensive look at different facets of Bouldering and ways of pushing the limits of the human condition. Mondet, who wins the silver medal here his home country, Amongst the idyllic medieval vestiges of Laval, our just head-one his compatriot Jeremy Bonder. competitors came ready to give their all and put on an unforgettable show to round out the 2014 Boulder World Both MEN and WOMEN offered us an unprecedented IFSC Cup series before the World Championships in Munich in World Cup Boulder Series 2014 that has been watched by August! thousands people all around the world, whatever the time was in their country! Two New Bouldering Champions Next stop: Chamonix (FRA) After an intense and unpredictable final, the Japanese

OFFICIAL PRESSRELEA OFFICIAL Akiyo fixes her first place in the Boulder Overall World Site of the first Winter Olympics in 1924 and one of the Cup 2014 with an impressive gold medal in Laval. Even if oldest ski resorts in France, Chamonix will host the first 2014 they missed their chance to challenge her, Shauna European stop in the 2014 IFSC Lead World Cup series, SATURDAY Coxsey (5th in Laval) and Anna Stöhr (6th in Laval) are on with a dual Lead and Speed competition! Don't miss the 28ND JUNE the second and third step of the Boulder Overall World World Cup in the city that Mark Twain dubbed "the death- Cup 2014! Another Japanese climbs in the podium in Laval, sport capital of the world"! Miho Nonaka and the German girl Juliane Wurm takes bronze. More information on the event, as well as live streaming of the semi-finals and finals on: Regarding men, Rustam Gelmanov shows an impressive technique in Laval, dominating the whole competition and http://www.ifsc-climbing.org takes gold medal. But it is not enough to win a place on the Boulder Overall World Cup 2014 podium, composed by As always, we are present on Twitter during competitions, Jan Hojer, Dmitrii Sharafutdinov and Guillaume Glairon so reach out with the hashtag #IFSCwc.

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RESULTS OF IFSC WORLD CUP FINAL RANKING SE LAVAL 2014 - BOULDER BOULDER 2014 BOULDER WOMEN BOULDER WOMEN RANK NAME NATION Points RANK NAME NATION Points 1 NOGUCHI Akiyo JPN 3t4 1 NOGUCHI Akiyo JPN 610 2 NONAKA Miho JPN 3t6 2 COXSEY Shauna GBR 556 3 WURM Juliane GER 3t7 3 STÖHR Anna AUT 488 4 GIBERT Fanny FRA 3t10 4 WURM Juliane GER 430 5 COXSEY Shauna GBR 3t13 5 NONAKA Miho JAP 300 6 STÖHR Anna AUT 2t4 6 PUCCIO Alex USA 289

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BOULDER MEN BOULDER MEN RANK NAME NATION Points RANK NAME NATION Points 1 GELMANOV Rustam RUS 4t8 1 HOJER Jan GER 558 2 G. MONDET Guillaume FRA 3t6 2 SHARAFUTDINOV Dimitrii RUS 467 3 BONDER Jeremy FRA 2t4 3 G. MONDET Guillaume FRA 461 OFFICIAL PRESSRELEA OFFICIAL 4 HOJER Jan GER 1t1 4 GELMANOV Rustam RUS 337 5 LEVIER Alban FRA 1t2 4 FISCHHUBER Kilian AUT 325 2014 6 JULIEN Stéphane FRA 1t3 5 MCCOLL Sean CAN 302 SATURDAY 28ND JUNE For Full Results: For Full Results: http://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php/world- http://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php/world- competition/calendar#!comp=1522&cat=6&route=3 competition#!type=ranking&cat=ICC_MB&cup=14_WC

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REPLAYS SE Semi-final: http://youtu.be/MnVhCK8whwk Final: http://youtu.be/sd31iiRL5F4

PICTURES A selection of photos from Laval can be found Monday morning on our flickr page here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/123572206@N08/sets/72157644623968172/

IFSC World Cup (L, S) 2014 Chamonix (FRA), July 10-12, 2014 Provisional program (GMT+2)

Thursday, July 10

10h30-16h00 – Lead qualification for men OFFICIAL PRESSRELEA OFFICIAL Friday, July 11

2014 9h30-14h30 – Lead qualification for women SATURDAY 28ND 15h00-18h30 – Speed qualification for men & women JUNE

21h15-22h15 – Speed final for men & women (live streaming)

Saturday, July 12

10h00-12h30 – Lead semi-final for men & women (live streaming)

21h30-22h00 – Lead final for women (live streaming)

22h00-23h00 – Lead final for men & women (live streaming)

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