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2 3 2. GENERAL INFORMATION FOR THE MEDIA ///////////////////////////////////////

Accreditation of journalists and photographers The accreditation for all journalists is located at the press centre in the Porsche-Arena (entrance to the right of restaurant “Grandls”).

Press Centre At our press centre in the Porsche-Arena you have free internet access during the event. Here you also receive start and result lists before and after the competition as well as royalty free images of our event photographers.

Opening Hours Press Contact adidas ROCKSTARS

Friday 09h00 – 22h00 Media Director TV Distribution Saturday 10h00 – 23h00 Sonja Güldner-Hamel René Wolber quattro media Planet Talk GmbH Ursprung 4 Floor Plan and Address Spinnereiinsel 3A 85625 Glonn 83059 Kolbermoor Porsche-Arena Germany Tel.: +49 8093 572-26 Mercedesstraße 69 Fax: +49 8093 572-29 70372 Stuttgart Mobile: +49 170 275 0510 Mobile: +49 151 6586 2203 Germany Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Press Contact adidas

PR Manager Outdoor Global PR Manager Outdoor Central Europe West Bastian Jung Isabel Riffel adidas AG adidas AG World of sports Market Central Adi-Dassler-Straße 1 Adi-Dassler-Platz 1-2 D-91074 Herzogenaurach D-91074 Herzogenaurach Germany Germany

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Please contact Bastian Jung and Isabel Riffel for all adidas queries that are not event related.

Entrance via Mercedesstraße (see arrow). The press centre is located in the area “Mehrzweckraum”.

4 5 Staff at Press Centre 3. SCHEDULE ///////////////////////////////////////////// Media Accreditation/ Reception Webmaster/ Live Ticker/ Livestream Embed Code Friday, 21 September 2018 Christopher Werner Fabian Rennack Mobile: +49 178 371 4749 Mobile: +49 176 3499 3332 09h00 Opening of venue Email: [email protected] 09h30 – 13h15 Qualification adidas ROCKSTARS professional competition Lejana Burkhardt 12h30 – 15h30 Accreditation Ticket to Rocktars Final presented by GORE-TEX Photo Syndication Mobile: +49 178 371 4749 15h30 – 22h00 Ticket to Rocktars Final presented by GORE-TEX Jam Sessions Michael Baierl Mobile: +49 157 5460 1717 with bigFM DJ P. Email: [email protected] 22h00 – 22h05 handover of wildcards for adidas ROCKSTARS semifinal

Saturday, 22 September 2018 High Res Photos 10h00 Opening of venue High res images taken by our event photographers Christian Waldegger, Vladek Zumr and 11h00 – 13h30 Semifinal adidas ROCKSTARS Bert Willer are available at the press centre (photo syndication desk) or on our download platform: 14h30 – 15h00 adidas TERREX Cinema 17h00 – 18h00 adidas TERREX Cinema Download platform: http://rockstars.planet-talk.net/ 18h00 – 19h00 Presentation ‘To the Limit’ User: adidasROCKSTARS 19h00 – 19h30 adidas TERREX Cinema Password: media2018 19h30 – 20h15 Live Performance - MC/ Beatboxer DJ Eklips vs. DJ Antar

Please credit our event photographers when publishing the images and send a print ab 20h15 Internet Livestream www.adidas-rockstars.com/live copy or online link for our documentation to: 20h15 – 20h35 Intro/ Athlete presentation/ Inspection Sonja Güldner-Hamel 20h35 – 22h20 adidas ROCKSTARS Final Planet Talk GmbH 22h20 – 23h00 adidas ROCKSTARS Superfinal Spinnereiinsel 3A 23h00 – 23h15 Award ceremony 83059 Kolbermoor Germany ab 24h00 bigFM after party at Disco ONE/ Esslingen Email: [email protected] with special guest DJ

Up-to-date information about adidas ROCKSTARS and GORE-TEX® Be a Rockstar is availa - ble on the following websites and social networks:

• Website (http://www.adidas-rockstars.com/) • Live Results/ Live Score (http://rockstars.rawmotion.com) • Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/adidasrockstars), #adidasrockstars18 • Twitter (@adidasrockstars) und • Instagram (@adidasROCKSTARS) The adidas ROCKSTARS final will be streamed live on www.livestream.com and adidas- rockstars.com/live. The livestream can be embedded on other website. Result lists and intermediate results are accessible via PC, iPad or smartphone on our live score site (see above)

6 4. ADIDAS ROCKSTARS ////////////////////////

4.1 General Information adidas ROCKSTARS at the Porsche-Arena in Stuttgart is a top-class invitational for the world’s best athletes. The event uniquely combines elite sports with live tical route on two sides of the same boulder. In the superfinal, it’s not sufficient to secu - music turning a white-knuckle bouldering competition into a stellar „ spectacle“. rely hold the top hold for three seconds like in the previous rounds. As it is custom when bouldering outdoors on natural rock, the athletes must stand on top of the boulder block Bouldering is a style of undertaken without a rope over a crash pad. In and in addition touch a buzzer, which will determine the winner in case of a hairbreadth terms of coordination, acrobatics and athleticism it is certainly the most demanding dis - finish. In this thrilling duel the two superfinalists need both, excellent skills and good cipline in . The goal of competitive bouldering is to reach a hold that is nerves. Although the climbers cannot see each other, the beat of the music and the cheers marked as ‘top’ in a limited time using as few attempts as possible. of the crowd will reflect what is happening on the other side. The person who first stands upright on the super boulder is the merited adidas ROCKSTAR 2018 and wins 4000 Euros. Climbing meets Music

Nearly everyone has experienced the motivating power of music over our body and soul. Music can release emotions within seconds; the right beat encourages us to tap our feet or clap our hands; a familiar tune invites us to sing along. Music drives us and makes emotional moments unforgettable. It is no secret that many bouldering athletes name their routes after songs they listen to while working on a project.

Music is also an integral part of a good sporting event, because it puts heroes in the spot - light, creates excitement and entertains the crowd. Intoxicating music and a great at - mosphere encourage athletes to compete at their physical best. For this reason, adidas ROCKSTARS combines high performance sport with live music, transforming a into an elaborately staged show. Heated up by live performers like MC & Beatboxer DJ Eklips and the DJs Chainsaw and Sungod, the world’s best competition climbers will excel themselves.

Invitational Competition

Over 70 athletes from more that 20 different countries were invited to adidas ROCKSTARS this year, including the top bouldering athletes of the IFSC world ranking, World and Eu - ropean champions, national and continental champions as well as the top 3 of the Euro - pean Youth Cup. 20 men and women can qualify on Friday for the semifinal on Saturday. In the qualification round, the athletes have a window of four and in the semifinal of five minutes, respectively, on each of four different boulders. The top 6 men and women ad - vance to the final on Saturday evening.

The finalists first climb on two boulders, one after another. Then the top three advance to the next round, in which they compete on a third boulder problem to reach the super - final. In the superfinal , the Top 2 compete in direct comparison on a so-called “super boulder” that was specifically created for the event. They climb simultaneously an iden -

8 World-class field lined up

Only invited athletes can participate in adidas ROCKSTARS. The start list reads like the who’s who of bouldering. Exactly one week after the World Championships in , some athletes may have some unfinished business and the crowd can look forward to an exciting competition.

The field includes the defending champion, Alex Puccio (USA) who already won twice in Stuttgart, this year’s overall Bouldering World Cup Champions Miho Nonaka (JPN) and (SLO) , 19 year-old (SLO) , Lead World Champion 2016, Overall Lead World Cup Winner 2017 and a truly exceptional talent, the 2017 Overall Boul - dering World Cup Champions, (GBR) and (KOR) , the (still) reigning Bouldering World Champion Petra Klingler (SUI) , the two European Champions Staša Gejo (SRB) and (GER) , as well as triple adidas ROCKSTAR and four time World Champion Combined (L/S/B) Sean McColl (CAN) , who couldn’t compete last year due to an injury and co-commentated the livestream instead.

Full-service to athletes

Service to the Athlete is the core philosophy of adidas at every event they organise or support. “For us athletes always take centre stage”, says Axel Burkhardt, Director Global Competition climbing Sports Marketing adidas Outdoor. “Only if the athletes feel comfortable they can surpass themselves. We’ve created an Athlete Lounge backstage, i.e. a chill zone with recovery Climbing has also become an international high-performance sport . Now the IOC has area, a big warm-up wall, sports nutrition and athlete catering. Before and after the com - put a spotlight on sport climbing by officially approving five new sports, including clim - petition the athletes can enjoy complimentary massages, physiotherapy and sport me - bing, for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. dical consulting at our Reload Center. The better they feel the better they will perform The Olympic competition combines three different disciplines: , bouldering and that makes the competition more exciting for everyone.” and . Bouldering is also known as maximal strength discipline. The diffi - culties of boulder “problems” range between boulder 7c to 8a+ and may be com - pared with single moves of grade 10 or 11 lead routes. In bouldering competitions, the Sport climbing is booming aim is to master four to five short boulder problems in several rounds (qualification, se - mifinal, final) with as few attempts as possible . In recent years, climbing has truly become a popular sport, not least because of nume - rous climbing gyms: more and more athletes are attracted by vertical challenges, both For each boulder the athletes have a time frame of four or five minutes, depending on indoor and outdoor, and the trend continues. For a very good reason: climbing does not the respective round. A boulder consists of six to eight climbing moves on average and only train most of our 656 muscles, it challenges the mind, too. has a maximum height of 4.5 metres, which makes it possible to climb without belay ropes. Falls are absorbed by so-called crash pads, i.e. custom-built boulder mats. The Especially the target group of indoor climbers is growing rapidly. According to the inter - climber has to put both hands on marked starting holds and climb from there to the hig - national Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) more than 140 countries have climbing walls. hest hold, the so-called top. The top hold, too, must be visibly held with both hands. The In Germany alone, there are more than 400 climbing gyms open to the public, Japan has athlete who achieved the most tops with the fewest attempts is the winner of the compe - 435 gyms. There are 35 million climbers around the world; in Germany alone there are tition . In case nobody is able to top a boulder problem the so-called bonus hold applies, around 700,000 climbers. Twenty-five per cent of the 1.25 million members of the Ger - meaning bonus points for a certain pre-defined zone the climber has to reach on his way man Alpine Club (DAV) state that they are climbing indoor on a regular basis. The sport to the top. To determine the ranking, the decisive factor is the maximum number of tops also attracts many women. Around 40 per cent of German climbers are female. And that combined with the lowest number of attempts, followed by the number of bonus points is not surprising: this sport is not only about strength, but also about body control and and the number of attempts needed to reach those bonus holds. athleticism. And it is a mind game, too.

10 11 4.2. Prize Money

The 20,000 EUR prize purse splits up as follows:

1st place men/women: EUR 4,000 2nd place men/women: EUR 3,000 Here is an example from the result list: Juliane Wurm had 4 tops (T) in the semifinal and nee - 3rd place men/women: EUR 1,500 ded 9 attempts (AT) for that. Akiyo Noguchi only needed 7 tries for 4 tops. If both had topped 4th place men/women: EUR 1,000 the same number of boulders with the same number of attempts, the bonus evaluation would 5th place men/women: EUR 500 apply – in that case Juliane Wurm would have been ranked higher, because she only needed 6th place men/women: EUR 250 6 attempts (AB) for 4 bonus holds (B).

4.3 Regulations*

Global Recognition * This is just an abstract of the most important rules. For the complete body of regulations please go to adidas-rockstars.com In addition to around 4,000 spectators who attended adidas ROCKSTARS in the Porsche-Arena, 150,000 people in 84 General countries watched the live streams. Over 1 Million facebook users around the The boulder competition adidas ROCKSTARS consists of globe were reached in the course the event. adidas ROCKSTARS was also well • a qualification received by TV stations. “We are thrilled • a semifinal about the great feedback we receive from • a final TV editors”, says Media Director Sonja • and a superfinal Güldner-Hamel. “ 7,804 transmissions in over 190 countries of which 4,356 were short reports speak for themselves. Our Each boulder includes a clear and defined starting point from which all attempts must half-hour adidas ROCKSTARS sports be started. highlight was broadcasted 1,647 times worldwide and is still repeated by many • This starting point consists of a clearly defined position for both hands and for one TV stations.“ foot or both feet. • The starting point is for all boulder problems identically marked. Each boulder adidas ROCKSTARS is not just a stand-alone global invitational – in the past years it has problem is equipped with a “bonus” hold, i.e. holding of a specific handle for extra developed into an entire series. National adidas ROCKSTARS qualifier events have taken points (even without completing the problem). place in Japan, China and Russia, and Ticket to Rockstars grassroots events are hosted • The Chief Route Setter determines the exact position of this hold. annually in climbing gyms in Germany, , , , China and Korea, • The marking of this hold is clearly highlighted and differs from the marking of the at which amateurs can win a weekend in the official adidas ROCKSTARS athlete hotel to starting position. be close to the bouldering stars. • The marking of this hold is identical for all boulder problems. • The bonus is also awarded once a competitor has successfully climbed the boulder without reaching the bonus hold.

A boulder problem is counted as “top“ once the competitor has reached the designated top hold with both hands holding it for at least 3 seconds. This position needs to be con - firmed by the respective Boulder Referee with a clear “OK“ and by raising the official green card.

13 Equipment

Athletes are only allowed to compete in the following equipment:

• climbing shoes • sports top • sports pants • chalk bag (dry and liquid magnesia)

During the final round, the 6 finalists climb two different boulders. The best 3 finalists of Boulder Wall this round fight on a third boulder problem for the superfinal. The start and finish of each rotation period are announced by The boulder wall is only open for bouldering • a clear and acoustic sound • once the Boulder Referee has explained the problem to the competitor in advance. • the emcee • the competitor is allowed to use the designated holds for his/her attempt as long • the starting of the stopwatch as not marked otherwise. • screw holes within the boulder wall are prohibited for holding but permitted for stepping. Within the superfinal the last 2 finalists (men and women separately) compete simulta - • as long as the side edges of the boulder wall are not used except it has been neously on the same boulder (super boulder) climbing identical routes. The athlete who specifically allowed. makes it first to the top wins the title. The boulder is counted as “top“, once the competitor has reached a standing position on top of the boulder and hits the buzzer. Before a com - petitor starts his/her attempt, all holds and steps have to be cleaned by the Boulder Re - Registration & Preparation feree or his assistant. The competitor is allowed to ask for a specific cleaning prior to his/her attempt. Only cleaning materials provided by the organizer may be used during Each competitor has to be ready to leave the lounge/ transit area and enter the compe - the competition. The athlete may also clean holds and steps him/herself. tition arena, when instructed to do so. Any delay in this regard leads to a warning. Any further delay might lead to disqualification. An attempt is regarded as started and counted

• once both feet have left the ground from the starting position. Procedure • once hands and feet have touched other holds than the starting holds.

During the qualification (40+x men and 30+x women are permitted) and semifinal (20 men and 20 women + 2 Wildcards) round each competitor has to attempt the four boulder pro - An attempt is regarded as completed once blems in a given order. After each boulder, the competitor gets a recreational break of 4 minutes during qualification and 5 minutes during the semifinal. During the final round • the boulder problem has been successfully topped (6 men and 6 women) the boulder problems also have to be attempted in a given order • the competitor has touched the ground with any of his body parts. and with a rotation period of 4+ minutes. The athlete is allowed to make her/his last at - • the competitor has not completed his/her attempts within the rotation period. tempt by finishing her/his 4th minute. • the competitor has not started as demonstrated by the Boulder Referee. • the competitor has used any part of the wall that is not open for bouldering.

14 15 Points System

After each boulder round, the competitors are rated according to the following primary ranking criteria*in the exact given order:

• number of tops reached. • number of attempts reaching that top. • number of bonus holds reached. • number of attempts reaching these bonus holds.

*During the final round, the highest hold controlled on each boulder problem will be recorded, as a secondary criterion for ranking..

In case more than three competitors are ranked among the top three after the first two boulders of the final round, all competitors who are in the top three advance to the third boulder of the final round.

In case more than two competitors are ranked among the top two after the third boulder of the final round, based on the primary ranking criteria, the secondary criterion will be applied to select the top two competitors to advance to the superfinal. If competitors are still tied after ranking by this secondary criterion, advancement to the superfinal will be based by a “count-back” to the previous round(s). If competitors are still tied, a tie-break is carried out on one additional boulder, which has been prepared in advance by the route setters, complying with the following rules:

• Each competitor has only one attempt according to the same starting order as in the final round. • A specific boulder time is defined. • This boulder attempt has to start within 40 seconds. • If no finalist has reached the top and the results remain unchanged another attempt is conducted until the finalists are separated with maximum of 3 attempts. If after the tie-break boulder, competitors are still tied, then a coin flip will decide the climber(s) who will advance to the superfinal.

In case both finalists reach the top at the same time during the superfinal, both athletes are ranked first, considered as equally strong and the prize/ prize money is equally divided.

16 4.4 Head Referee adidas ROCKSTARS head referee Johannes Altner (GER) started climbing at the age of 12 and has experienced the sport from various angles in the past 35 years of his climbing career: as competition climber, as route setter on national level, as climbing coach and adventure educator, and since 2000 also as referee. In 2005 Hannes started working at international competitions and since 2008 he is managing the referee team at World Cup events as head referee. His preference are boulder comps, because “there is always such a familiar atmo - sphere despite being a highly professional elite sport. The athletes are not opponents but friends, who get on well no matter where they are from.” His aim as head referee is to faci - litate a fair, good and enjoyable competition for the athletes.

4.5 Participating countries (23)

19 orld Cup 4.6 Top Men & Women = Boulder W BWC up ead World C LWC = L ouldering B = B ead L = L peed The IFSC (International Federation of Sport S = S Climbing) runs an annual circuit of 5 - 7 World Cups in all three climbing disciplines: boulde - thletes ticipating a ring, lead and speed climbing. Ranking points = Par 2018 OCKSTARS are awarded at each of these and an overall adidas R World Cup winner is crowned in each discipline at the end of the season. The World Champion - ships meanwhile is a one-off event, held every 2 years, where climbers have one shot at glory; a contrasting challenge to winning a World Cup title over multiple events.

4.6.1 Results in recent years Bouldering World Cup Overall: World Championships (B) Men Gold Silver Bronze Men Gold Silver Bronze 2018 Jernej Kruder (SLO) Tomoa Narasaki (JPN) Rei Sugimoto (JPN) 2016 Tomoa Narasaki (JPN) (CZE) Manuel Cornu (FRA) 2017 Jongwon Chon (KOR) Tomoa Narasaki (JPN) Aleksei Rubtsov (RUS) 2014 Adam Ondra (CZE) Jernej Kruder (SLO) Jan Hojer (GER) 2016 Tomoa Narasaki (JPN) Kokoro Fujii (JPN) Aleksei Rubtsov (RUS) 2012 Dmitrii Sharafutdinov (RUS) (AUT) Rustam Gelmanov (RUS) 2015 Jongwon Chon (KOR) Jan Hojer (GER) Adam Ondra (CZE) 2011 Dmitrii Sharafutdinov (RUS) Adam Ondra (CZE) Rustam Gelmanov (RUS) 2004 Jan Hojer (GER) Dmitrii Sharafutdinov (RUS) G.G. Mondet (FRA) 2009 Aleksei Rubtsov (RUS) Rustam Gelmanov (RUS) David Barrans (GBR)

Women Gold Silver Bronze Women Gold Silver Bronze 2018 Miho Nonaka (JPN) Akiyo Noguchi (JPN) Fanny Gibert (FRA) 2016 Petra Klingler (SUI) Miho Nonaka (JPN) Akiyo Noguchi (JPN) 2017 Shauna Coxsey (GBR) Janja Garnbret (SLO) Akiyo Noguchi (JPN) 2014 Juliane Wurm (GER) Alex Puccio (USA) Akiyo Noguchi (JPN) 2016 Shauna Coxsey (GBR) Miho Nonaka (JPN) Mélissa Le Nevé (FRA) 2012 Mélanie Sandoz (FRA) Olga Iakoleva (RUS) Anna Stöhr (AUT) 2015 Akiyo Noguchi (JPN) Shauna Coxsey (GBR) Miho Nonaka (JPN) 2011 Anna Stöhr (AUT) Sasha DiGiulian (USA) Juliane Wurm (GER) 2004 Anna Stöhr (AUT) Akiyo Noguchi (JPN) Alex Puccio (USA) 2009 Yulia Abramchuk (RUS) Olga Shalagina (UKR) Anna Stöhr (AUT)

Lead World Cup Overall: Europe Championships (B) Men Gold Silver Bronze Men Gold Silver Bronze 2017 Romain Desgranges (FRA) (ITA) Keiichiro Korenaga (JPN) 2017 Jan Hojer (GER) Alexander Megos (GER) Anze Peharc (SLO) 2016 Domen Škofic (SLO) (AUT) Romain Desgranges (FRA) 2015 Jan Hojer (GER) Adam Ondra (CZE) Stefan Scarperi (ITA) 2015 Adam Ondra (CZE) Gautier Supper (FRA) Jakob Schubert (AUT) 2013 Kilian Fischhuber (AUT) Dmitrii Sharafutdinov (RUS) Jakob Schubert (AUT)

Jakob Schubert (AUT) Sean McColl (CAN) Adam Ondra (CZE) 2014 Women Gold Silver Bronze Women Gold Silver Bronze 2017 Staša Gejo (SRB) Janja Garnbret (SLO) Petra Klingler (SUI) 2017 Janja Garnbret (SLO) Kim Jain (KOR) Anak Verhoeven (BEL) 2015 Juliane Wurm (GER) Anna Stöhr (AUT) Katharina Sauerwein (AUT) 2016 Janja Garnbret (SLO) Anak Verhoeven (BEL) Jain Kim (KOR) 2013 Anna Stöhr (AUT) Mina Markovič (SLO) Mélanie Sandoz (FRA) 2015 Mina Markovič (SLO) Jain Kim (KOR) (AUT) 2014 Jain Kim (KOR) Mina Markovič (SLO) Magdalena Röck (AUT)

20 21 adidas ROCKSTARS Stuttgart

orld Cup 4.6 Top Men & Women = Boulder W 2014 BWC up ead World C LWC = L Women Men Bouldering B = 1 Akiyo Noguchi (JPN) Sean McColl (CAN) = Lead L 2 Mina Markovic (SLO) Jongwon Chon (KOR) peed S = S 3 Petra Klingler (SUI) Jernej Kruder (SLO) 4.6.2 The adidas ROCKSTARS hletes 4 Shauna Coxsey (GBR) Rei Sugimoto (JPN) icipating at = Part 2018 Finalists 2011-2017 KSTARS Mélissa Le Nevé (FRA) James Kassay (AUS) adidas ROC 5 6 Mathilde Becerra (FRA) Rustam Gelmanov (RUS) adidas ROCKSTARS Stuttgart adidas ROCKSTARS Stuttgart

2017 2013 Women Men Women Men 1 Alex Puccio (USA) Tomoa Narasaki (JPN) 1 Juliane Wurm (GER) Jernej Kruder (SLO) 2 Janja Garnbret (SLO) Jongwon Chon (KOR) 2 Shauna Coxsey (GBR) Rustam Gelmanov (RUS) 3 Miho Nonaka (JPN) Kokor Fujii (JPN) 3 Akiyo Noguchi (JPN) Sean McColl (CAN) 4 Akiyo Noguchi (JPN) Dmitrii Sharafutdinov (RUS) 4 Petra Klingler (SUI) Gabriele Moroni (ITA) 5 Shauna Coxsey (GBR) Makoto Yamauchi (JPN) 5 Mina Markovic (SLO) Dmitrii Sharafutdinov (RUS) 6 Aya Onoe (JPN) Aleksei Rubtsov (RUS) 6 Alex Puccio (USA) Jorg Verhoeven (NED) adidas ROCKSTARS Stuttgart adidas ROCKSTARS Stuttgart

2016 2012 Women Men Women Men 1 Janja Garnbret (SLO) Tomoa Narasaki (JPN) 1 Alex Puccio (USA) Sean McColl (CAN) 2 Jessica Pilz (AUT) Jan Hojer (GER) 2 Akiyo Noguchi (JPN) Jon Cardwell (USA) 3 Miho Nonaka (JPN) Jongwon Chon (KOR) 3 Juliane Wurm (GER) G. G. Mondet (FRA) 4 Stasa Gejo (SRB) Alban Levier (FRA) 4 Therese Johansen (NOR) Jan Hojer (GER) 5 Petra Klingler (SUI) Rustam Gelmanov (RUS) 5 Katharina Sauerwein (AUT) Rustam Gelmanov (RUS) 6 Leah Crane (GBR) Jernej Kruder (SLO) 6 Mina Leslie-Wujastyk (GBR) Jeremy Bonder (FRA) adidas ROCKSTARS Stuttgart adidas ROCKSTARS Ötztal

2015 2011 Women Men Women Men 1 Megan Mascarenas (USA) Sean McColl (CAN) 1 Anna Stöhr (AUT) Dmitrii Sharafutdinov (RUS) 2 Akiyo Noguchi (JPN) Rei Sugimoto (JPN) 2 Alex Puccio (USA) Kilian Fischhuber (AUT) 3 Janja Garnbret (SLO) Jernej Kruder (SLO) 3 Anna Gallyamova (RUS) Aleksei Rubtsov (RUS) 4 Stasa Gejo (SRB) Aleksei Rubtsov (RUS) 4 Alex Johnson (USA) Mykhaylo Shalagin (UKR) 5 Miho Nonaka (JPN) Jongwon Chon (KOR) 5 Therese Johansen (NOR) Stewart Watson (GBR) 6 Julija Kruder (SLO) Simon Unger (GER) 6 Vera Zijlstra (NED) Klemen Becan (SLO)

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orld Cup = Boulder W BWC up ead World C LWC = L ouldering MALE Pro Athletes B = B MALE Pro Athletes ead L = L peed S = S

2 // Jongwon CHON (KOR) 5 // Makoto YAMAUCHI (JPN)

Nationality: Korean Hometown: Seoul Nationality: Japanese Hometown: Bunnkyoku Date of Birth: 07 February 1996 Climber since: 2010 Date of Birth: 14 November 1994 Climber since: 2005 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: 2 BWC Overall 2018: 7 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: 5 BWC Overall 2018: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: 3 BWC Overall 2017: 1 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: 5 BWC Overall 2016: 4 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: 45

Personal Best: Personal Best: 4th World Cup (B) Hachioji 2018 43rd World Cup (B) Hachioji 2017 1st World Cup Overall (B) 2017, 2015 9th World Cup (B) Vail 2015 1st World Cup (B) Navi Mumbai 2017 20th World Championship (B) 2014 1st World Cup (B) Vail 2017 8th World Cup (B) Grindelwald 2014 3 // Kokoro FUJI (JPN) 7 // Jan HOJER (GER)

Nationality: Japanese Hometown: Tokyo Nationality: German Hometown: Frechen Date of Birth: 30 November 1992 Climber since: 2004 Date of Birth: 09 February 1992 Climber since: 2003 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: 3 BWC Overall 2018: 6 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: 7 BWC Overall 2018: 13 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: 9 BWC Overall 2017: 5 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: 2 BWC Overall 2017: 7 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: 2 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: 8 BWC Overall 2016: 9

Personal Best: Personal Best: 1st World Cup (B) Chongqing 2018 1st German Championships Olympic Combined - Augsburg 2018 1st World Cup (B) Meiringen 2017 1st World Cup (B) Munich 2017 2nd World Cup Overall (B) 2016 1st European Championship (B) Munich 2017 1st World Cup (B) Vail 2016 2nd World Cup Overall (B) 2016 4 // Dmitrii SHARAFUTDINOV (RUS) 8 // Sergii TOPISHKO (UKR)

Nationality: Russian Hometown: Ekaterinburg Nationality: Ukrainian Hometown: Kiev Date of Birth: 16 September 1986 Climber since: 1992 Date of Birth: 02 October 1988 Climber since: 1996 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: 4 BWC Overall 2018: 41 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: 8 BWC Overall 2018: 23 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: 24 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: 8 BWC Overall 2017: 22 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: 11 BWC Overall 2016: 12 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: 25

Personal Best: Personal Best: 1st Russian Championship (B) 2016 12th World Cup (B) Hachioji 2018 1st World Cup (B) Vail, Baku 2014 10th World Cup (B) Meiringen 2017 2nd World Cup (B) Grindelwald, Chongqing 2014 8th World Cup (B, S) Chongqing 2016 1st World Cup Overall (B) 2013 4th World Cup (B) Munich 2015

26 27 orld Cup = Boulder W BWC up ead World C LWC = L ouldering MALE Pro Athletes B = B MALE Pro Athletes ead L = L peed S = S

9 // Meichi NARASAKI (JPN) 13 // Jeremy BONDER (FRA)

Nationality: Japanese Hometown: Utsunomiya Nationality: French Hometown: Fontainebleau Date of Birth: 13 May 1999 Climber since: 2008 Date of Birth: 15 July 1991 Climber since: 1999 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: 33 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: 18 BWC Overall 2018: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: 12 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: 30 BWC Overall 2017: 27 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: 60 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: 10 BWC Overall 2016: 8

Personal Best: Personal Best: 1st World Youth Championships (combined) Innsbruck 2017 5th World Championships (B) Paris 2016 2nd World Youth Championships (B + L) Innsbruck 2017 8th World Cup Overall (B) 2016 1st Asian Youth Championships (B, L) Singapore 2017 6th World Cup (B) Navi Mumbai 2016 2nd World Cup (B) Vail 2017 4th World Cup (B) Kazo 2016

11 // Leo Avezou (FRA) 14 // Nicolas COLLIN (BEL)

Nationality: French Hometown: Igny Nationality: Belgium Hometown: Bruxelles Date of Birth: 21 August 1999 Climber since: 2010 Date of Birth: 24 March 1998 Climber since: 2004 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: 36 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: 58 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: -

Personal Best: Personal Best: 3rd European Youth Cup overall (B) 2017 12th World Cup (B) Moscow 2018 5th European Youth Championships (B) Slany 2017 1st European Youth Cup Overall (B) 2017 7th World Youth Championships (B) Innsbruck 2017 6th European Youth Championships (B) Slany 2017 25th World Cup (B) Meiringen 2017 15th World Youth Championships (B) Innsbruck 2017 12 // Gholamali BARATZADEH (IRI) 15 // Matthias ERBER (AUT)

Nationality: Iranian Hometown: Tehran Nationality: Austrian Hometown: St. Johann Date of Birth: 21 September 1985 Climber since: 1999 Date of Birth: 08 November 1997 Climber since: 2002 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: 23 BWC Overall 2018: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: 22 BWC Overall 2017: 28 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: 58 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: 14 BWC Overall 2016: 30 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: -

Personal Best: Personal Best: 6 th Asian Continental Championships (B) Tehran 2017 22nd World Cup (S) Arco 2018 11th World Cup (B) Navi Mumbai 2017 18th European Championships (S) Campitello di Fassa 2017 7th World Cup (B) Haiyang 2015 1st GORE-TEX® Be a Rockstar 2017 1st National Competition (B) Iran 2014 8th European Youth Championships (B) Laengenfeld 2016

28 29 orld Cup = Boulder W BWC up ead World C LWC = L ouldering MALE Pro Athletes B = B MALE Pro Athletes ead L = L peed S = S

16 // David FIRNENBURG (GER) 19 // Nicolas JANUEL (FRA)

Nationality: German Hometown: Hannover Nationality: French Hometown: Fontainebleau Date of Birth: 28 May 1995 Climber since: 2001 Date of Birth: 12 February 1983 Climber since: 1993 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: 60 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: 22 BWC Overall 2017: 11 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: 18 BWC Overall 2016: 29 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: -

Personal Best: Personal Best: 3rd German Championship (S) Saarlouis 2017 39th World Cup (B) Meiringen 2018 1st German Championship (B) Berlin 2017 17th World Cup (B) Vienna 2012 2nd German Lead Cup (L) Neu-Ulm 2016 6th World Cup (S) Trento 2007 3rd German Lead Cup (L) Munich 2016 5th World Youth Championships (L) Amsterdam 2000

17 // Yannick FLOHÉ (GER) 20 // Florian Klingler (AUT)

Nationality: German Hometown: Essen Nationality: Austrian Hometown: Fritzens Date of Birth: 1999 Climber since: - Date of Birth: 18 March 1998 Climber since: 2005 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: 27 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: 48 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: -

Personal Best: Personal Best: 1st German Championships (B) Friedrichshafen/ (S) Hilden 2018 31st World Cup (B) Tai'an 2018 15th World Cup (L) Chamonix 2018 13th European Youth Championships (B) Slany 2017 18th World Cup (B) Chongqing 2018 2nd Overall European Youth Cup (B) L’Argentière 2017 5th World Youth Championships (B) Innsbruck 2017 18 // Petar IVANOV (BUL) 21 // Jernej KRUDER (SLO)

Nationality: Bulgarian Hometown: Sofia Nationality: Slovenian Hometown: Skofja Vas Date of Birth: 19 November 2000 Climber since: 2007 Date of Birth: 05 December 1990 Climber since: 1997 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: 12 BWC Overall 2018: 1 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: 6 BWC Overall 2017: 9 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: 3 BWC Overall 2016: 10

Personal Best: Personal Best: 1st European Youth Cup overall (B) 2018 2nd World Cup (B) Tai'an 2018 1st European Youth Championships (B) Slany 2017 2nd World Cup (B) Moscow 2018 4th World Youth Championships (B) Innsbruck 2017 1st World Cup (B) Meiringen 2018 1st European Youth Cup overall (B) 2017 1st adidas ROCKSTARS 2013

30 31 orld Cup = Boulder W BWC up ead World C LWC = L ouldering MALE Pro Athletes B = B MALE Pro Athletes ead L = L peed S = S

22 // Mickael MAWEM (FRA) 25 // Anže PEHARC (SLO)

Nationality: French Hometown: Fontainebleau Nationality: Slovenian Hometown: Tržič Date of Birth: 03 August 1990 Climber since: 2002 Date of Birth: 29 July 1997 Climber since: 2006 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: 15 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: 30 BWC Overall 2018: 25 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: 12 BWC Overall 2017: 20 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: 21 BWC Overall 2017: 25 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: 13 BWC Overall 2016: 16 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: -

Personal Best: Personal Best: 4th World Cup (B) Tokyo 2017 3rd European Championships (B) Munich 2017 4th World Championship (B) Paris 2016 8th World Cup (B) Munich 2017 5th World Cup (B) Munich 2016 1st European Youth Championship (B) L’Argentière 2015 7th World Cup (B) Meiringen 2016 3rd World Youth Championship (B) Arco 2015

23 // Sean MCCOLL (CAN) 26 // Nathan PHILLIPS (GBR)

Nationality: Canadian Hometown: North Vancouver Nationality: British Hometown: Holmfirth Date of Birth: 03 September 1987 Climber since: 1997 Date of Birth: 20 June 1994 Climber since: 2000 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: 20 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: 28 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: 13 BWC Overall 2017: 41 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: 30 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: 1 BWC Overall 2016: 6 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: 42

Personal Best: Personal Best: 2nd World Cup (B) Chongqing 2018 16th World Cup (B) Chongqing 2018 2nd World Cup (L) Briançon 2017 14th World Cup (B) Nanjing 2017 1st adidas ROCKSTARS 2012, 2014, 2015 16th World Cup (B) Haiyang 2014 World Champion Combined (B, L, S) 2009, 2012, 2014, 2016 1st European Youth Cup (B) Laval 2013 24 // Yoshiyuki OGATA (JPN) 27 // Jan-Luca POSCH (AUT)

Nationality: Japanese Hometown: Yokohamashi Kana gawaku Nationality: Austrian Hometown: Imst Date of Birth: 04 February 1998 Climber since: 2010 Date of Birth: 07 January 1998 Climber since: 2004 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: 24 BWC Overall 2018: 13 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: 8 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: 65 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: 17 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: 50

Personal Best: Personal Best: 4th World Cup (B) Munich 2018 37th World Cup (B) Meiringen 2018 1st World Youth Championships: Juniors (B/L) Innsbruck 2017 1st European Youth Championships (B) Slany 2017 1st Asian Continental Championship (B) Duyun 2016 3rd World Youth Championships (B) Innsbruck 2017 4th World Cup (B) Vail 2016

32 33 orld Cup = Boulder W BWC up ead World C LWC = L ouldering MALE Pro Athletes B = B MALE Pro Athletes ead L = L peed S = S

28 // Max PRINZ (GER) 31 // Vadim Timonov (RUS)

Nationality: German Hometown: Hannover Nationality: Russian Hometown: Saint-Petersburg Date of Birth: 01 July 1999 Climber since: 2005 Date of Birth: 06 November 1992 Climber since: 2003 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: 52 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: 19 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: 19 BWC Overall 2016: -

Personal Best: Personal Best: 35th World Cup (B) Chongqing 2018 10th European Championships (B) Munich 2017 3rd German National Championships (B) Berlin 2017 13th World Cup (B) Munich 2017 1st European Youth Cup (B) Graz 2016 10th World Cup (B) Nanjing 2017 Winner of the Russian Cup 2015

29 // Rei SUGIMOTO (JPN) 32 // Gregor VEZONIK (SLO)

Nationality: Japanese Hometown: Tokyo Nationality: Slovenian Hometown: Ravne na Koroskem Date of Birth: 13 November 1991 Climber since: 2000 Date of Birth: 06 July 1995 Climber since: 1998 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: 3 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: 20 BWC Overall 2018: 5 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: 6 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: 50 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: 2 BWC Overall 2016: 33 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: 21 BWC Overall 2016: 57

Personal Best: Personal Best: 1st World Cup (B) Vail 2018 1st World Cup (B) Munich 2018 3rd World Cup (B) Hachioji 2018 3rd World Cup (B) Tai'an 2018 2nd World Cup (B) Navi Mumbai 2017 3rd World Cup (B) Moscow 2018 1st World Cup (B) Munich 2013 2nd Overall European Youth Cup Bouldering 2012 30 // Tomoaki TAKATA (JPN) 33 // Keita WATABE (JPN)

Nationality: Japanese Hometown: Tokyo Nationality: Japanese Hometown: Yokkaichishi Date of Birth: 20 February 1995 Climber since: 2012 Date of Birth: 30 August 1993 Climber since: 2001 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: 17 BWC Overall 2018: 8 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: 14 BWC Overall 2018: 16 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: 32 BWC Overall 2017: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: 4 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: 27 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: 23

Personal Best: Personal Best: 6th World Cup (B) Vail 2018 9th World Cup (B) Munich 2018 5th World Cup (B) Meiringen 2018 8th World Cup (B) Moscow 2018 8th World Championship (B) Paris 2016 3rd World Cup (B) Hachioji 2017 4th Asian Continental Championship (B) Duyun 2016 1st World Cup (B) Nanjing 2017

34 35 orld Cup = Boulder W BWC up ead World C LWC = L ouldering MALE Pro Athletes B = B MALE Pro Athletes ead L = L peed S = S

34 // Kai HARADA (JPN) 37 // Domen Škofic (SLO)

Nationality: Japanese Hometown: Yokohama Nationality: Slovenian Hometown: Radovljica Date of Birth: 10 March 1999 Climber since: 2008 Date of Birth: 11 April 1994 Climber since: 2000 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: 16 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - LWC Overall 2018: 4 (as of 27.7.18) adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: 16 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: 17 LWC Overall 2017: 4 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: 50 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - LWC Overall 2016: 1

Personal Best: Personal Best: 3rd World Youth Championships (B) Moscow 2018 1st World Cup Overall (L) 2016 3rd World Youth Championships (L) Moscow 2018 1st World Cup (L) Imst, Briancon, Chamonix 2016 1st adidas ROCKSTARS Tokyo 2018 4th World Championship (L) Gijon 2014 5th World Cup (B) Chongqing 2017 3rd Overall Combined World Cup 2014, 2015

35 // Manuel CORNU (FRA) 38 // Josh LEVIN (USA)

Nationality: French Hometown: Voiron Nationality: American Hometown: Sunnyvale Date of Birth: 26 November 1993 Climber since: 1998 Date of Birth: 25 February 1994 Climber since: 1998 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: 18 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - LWC Overall 2018: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: 18 BWC Overall 2017: 13 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - LWC Overall 2017: 63 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: 19 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - LWC Overall 2016: -

Personal Best: Personal Best: 7th European Championships (B) Munich 2017 4th USA National Championships (L) Reno 2018 5th World Cup (B) Nanjing 2017 12th World Cup (S) Edinburgh 2017 3rd World Championships (B) Paris 2016 9th World Youth Championships (S) Central Saanich 2013 French Champion Overall 2015 1st PanAmerican Youth Championships (S) Santiago 2012 36 // William BOSI (GBR) 39 // Zan SUDAR (SLO)

Nationality: British Hometown: Edinburgh Nationality: Slovenian Hometown: Ravne na Date of Birth: 27 December 1998 Climber since: 2005 Date of Birth: 14 January 1998 Climber since: 2008 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - LWC Overall 2018: 17 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - LWC Overall 2017: 48 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - LWC Overall 2016: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: -

Personal Best: Personal Best: 5th World Cup (L) Chamonix 2018 31st World Cup (B) - Munich 2018 4th World Youth Championships (combined) Innsbruck 2017 13th European Youth Championships (B) Laengenfeld 2016 3rd World Youth Championships (B) Guangzhou 2016 21st World Youth Championships (B) Arco 2015 7th European Youth Championships (B) L'Argentière la Bessée 2015

36 37 orld Cup = Boulder W BWC up ead World C LWC = L ouldering MALE Pro Athletes B = B FEMALE Pro Athletes ead L = L peed S = S

40 // QiXin ZHONG (CHN) 51 // Alex PUCCIO (USA)

Nationality: Chinese Hometown: Beijing Nationality: American Hometown: Salt Lake City Date of Birth: 7 April 1989 Climber since: 2005 Date of Birth: 15 June 1989 Climber since: 2003 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - SWC Overall 2018: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: 1 BWC Overall 2018: 17 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - SWC Overall 2017: 7 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: 17 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - SWC Overall 2016: 12 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: 28 Personal Best: Personal Best: 1st Overall World Cup (S) 2015 2-time adidas ROCKSTARS Champion - 2017, 2012 4-time Speed World Champion 1st World Cup (B) Vail 2018 10-time+ Speed Climbing World Cup Winner 2nd World Championships (B) Munich 2014 3rd World Cup Overall (B) 2013

41 // Alfons DORNAUER (AUT) 52 // Janja GARNBRET (SLO)

Nationality: Slovenian Hometown: Šmartno pri Slovenj Gradcu Nationality: Austrian Hometown: Finkenberg Date of Birth: 12 March 1999 Climber since: 2006 Date of Birth: 15 November 1993 Climber since: 2001 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: 2 BWC Overall 2018: 4 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: 22 BWC Overall 2018: 37 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: 1 BWC Overall 2017: 2 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: 10 BWC Overall 2017: 43 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: 3 BWC Overall 2016: 17 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: 26 BWC Overall 2016: 36 Personal Best: Personal Best: 1st World Cup (L) Arco, Briançon, Villars 2018 14th World Cup (B) - Munich 2018 1st World Cup (B) Munich and Moscow 2018 17th World Cup (B) Navi Mumbai 2016 1st World Championship (L) Paris 2016 21st World Youth Championships (B) Arco 2015 1st World Cup Overall (L) 2016, 2017 7th European Youth Championships (B) L'Argentière la Bessée 2015

35 orld Cup = Boulder W BWC up ead World C LWC = L ouldering FEMALE Pro Athletes B = B FEMALE Pro Athletes ead L = L peed S = S

53 // Miho NONAKA (JPN) 58 // Ekaterina KIPRIIANOVA (RUS)

Nationality: Japanese Hometown: Tokyo Nationality: Russian Hometown: Saint-Petersburg Date of Birth: 21 May 1997 Climber since: 2006 Date of Birth: 22 August 1989 Climber since: 1997 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: 3 BWC Overall 2018: 1 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: 8 BWC Overall 2018: 7 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: 3 BWC Overall 2017: 4 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: 24 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: 5 BWC Overall 2016: 2 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: 47

Personal Best: Personal Best: 1st World Cup (B) Meiringen 2018 3rd World Cup (B) Hachioji 2018 2nd World Cup (B) Munich, Vail, Hachioji, Tai’an, Chongqing, Moscow 2018 4th World Cup (B) Chongqing 2018 2nd World Cup Overall (B) 2016 1st adidas ROCKSTARS Russia 2017 2nd World Championship (B) Paris 2016 5th European Championship (B) Munich 2017

55 // Shauna COXSEY (GBR) 59 // Jessica PILZ (AUT)

Nationality: British Hometown: Runcorn Nationality: Austrian Hometown: Innsbruck Date of Birth: 27 January 1993 Climber since: 1997 Date of Birth: 22 November 1996 Climber since: 2005 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: 5 BWC Overall 2018: 9 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: 9 LWC Overall 2018: 2 (as of 27.7.18) adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: 1 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: 2 LWC Overall 2017: 4 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: 10 BWC Overall 2016: 1 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - LWC Overall 2016: 9

Personal Best: Personal Best: 1st World Cup Overall (B) 2017 2nd World Cup (L) Briançon 2018 1st World Cup (B) Nanjing 2017 1st World Cup (L) Chamonix 2018 1st World Cup (B) Meiringen 2017 3rd World Cup Overall (L) 2015 1st World Cup Overall (B) 2016 2nd World Youth Championship (L) Arco 2015 56 // Aya ONOE (JPN) 60 // Mina MARKOVIĆ (SLO)

Nationality: Japanese Hometown: Honcho-Kawaguchi Nationality: Slovenian Hometown: Sežana Date of Birth: 20 September 1995 Climber since: 2005 Date of Birth: 23 November 1987 Climber since: 1998 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: 6 BWC Overall 2018: 27 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: 10 LWC Overall 2018: 7 (as of 27.7.18) adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: 10 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: 8 LWC Overall 2017: 6 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: 21 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - LWC Overall 2016: 5

Personal Best: Personal Best: 1st Asian Continental Championships (L) Tehran 2017 3rd World Championship (L) Paris 2016 2nd Asian Continental Championships (B) Tehran 2017 1st World Cup (L) Kranj, Stavanger, Imst, Chamonix 2015 4th World Cup (B) Chongqing 2015 1st European Championship (L) Chamonix 2015 1st World Youth Championship (L) Noumea 2014 1st World Cup Overall (L) 2011, 2012, 2015

40 41 orld Cup = Boulder W BWC up ead World C LWC = L ouldering FEMALE Pro Athletes B = B FEMALE Pro Athletes ead L = L peed S = S

61 // Maëlys AGRAPART (FRA) 65 // Kyra CONDIE (USA)

Nationality: French Hometown: Massy Nationality: American Hometown: Shoreview Date of Birth: 13 August 1996 Climber since: 2009 Date of Birth: 05 June 1996 Climber since: 2008 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: 13 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: 23 BWC Overall 2017: 26 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: 47 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: 33

Personal Best: Personal Best: 7th European Championships (B) Munich 2017 5th World Cup (B) Vail 2018 9th World Cup (B) Munich 2017 14th World Cup (B) Hachioji 2018 18th World Cup (B, S) Nanjing 2017 6th World Cup (B) Tai'an 2018 11th European Youth Cup (L) Imst 2015 3rd World Youth Championships Combined (L, B, S) Arco 2015

62 // Alma BESTVATER (GER) 66 // Leah CRANE (GBR)

Nationality: German Hometown: Weimar Nationality: British Hometown: Kendal Date of Birth: 27 March 1996 Climber since: 2009 Date of Birth: 29 May 1989 Climber since: 1994 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: 17 BWC Overall 2018: 10 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: 32 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: 25 BWC Overall 2017: 14 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: 6 BWC Overall 2017: 25 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: 11

Personal Best: Personal Best: 1st German Championships (B) Friedrichshafen 2018 9th World Cup (B) Meiringen 2018 5th World Cup (B) Hachioji 2018 9th European Championships (B) Munich 2017 5th European Youth Championship (B) L’Argentière 2015 11th World Cup Overall (B) 2016 1st German Youth Boulder Cup Overall (B) 2015 8th World Cup (B) Munich 2016 64 // Chloé CAULIER (BEL) 67 // Johanna FÄRBER (AUT)

Nationality: Belgian Hometown: Jurbise Nationality: Austrian Hometown: Kumberg Date of Birth: 18 November 1996 Climber since: 2005 Date of Birth: 01 March 1998 Climber since: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: 12 BWC Overall 2018: 14 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: 18 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: 17 BWC Overall 2017: 13 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: 34 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: 16 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: -

Personal Best: Personal Best: 7th World Cup (B) Chongqing 2018 5th World Cup (B) Tai'an 2018 6th World Cup (B) Kazo 2016 10th European Youth Championships (B) Slany 2017 5th World Youth Championship (B) Arco 2015 8th World Cup (B) Navi Mumbai 2017 Belgian Champion (B) since 2014 5th World Youth Championships (B) Guangzhou 2016

42 43 orld Cup = Boulder W BWC up ead World C LWC = L ouldering FEMALE Pro Athletes B = B FEMALE Pro Athletes ead L = L peed S = S

68 // Frederike FELL (GER) 72 // Afra HÖNIG (GER)

Nationality: German Hometown: Marzling Nationality: German Hometown: Munich Date of Birth: 29 May 2001 Climber since: - Date of Birth: 2 December 1995 Climber since: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: 18 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: 58 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: 34 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: -

Personal Best: Personal Best: 1st German Championships Olympic Combined - Augsburg 2018 31st World Cup (B) Tai'an 2018 1st German Championships (L) Hilden 2018 23rd World Cup (B) Chongqing 2018 2nd German Championships (B) Berlin 2017 33rd World Cup (B) Munich 2017 5th European Youth Cup (B) Overall 2017 3rd German Championships (B) Berlin 2017

69 // Staša GEJO (SRB) 73 // Katja KADIĆ (SLO)

Nationality: Serbian Hometown: Niš Nationality: Slovenian Hometown: Ljubljana Date of Birth: 25 November 1997 Climber since: 2004 Date of Birth: 14 June 1995 Climber since: 2004 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: 26 BWC Overall 2018: 6 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: 13 BWC Overall 2018: 5 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: 4 BWC Overall 2017: 6 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: 13 BWC Overall 2017: 7 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: 4 BWC Overall 2016: 18 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: -

Personal Best: Personal Best: 4th World Cup (B) Hachioji 2018 5th World Cup (B) 2018 1st European Championships (B) Munich 2017 6th World Cup (B) Chongquing 2018 1st The World Games 2017 5th World Cup (B) Vail 2017 1st World Youth Championship (B, Combined) Arco 2015 3rd European Youth Championships (B) Arco 2014 71 // Johanna HOLFELD (GER) 74 // Ievgeniia KAZBEKOVA (UKR)

Nationality: German Hometown: Dresden Nationality: Ukrainian Hometown: Dnipro Date of Birth: 26 July 1999 Climber since: 2002 Date of Birth: 15 October 1996 Climber since: 2004 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - LWC Overall 2018: 25 (as of 27.7.18) adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: 37 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - LWC Overall 2017: 16 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - LWC Overall 2016: 19

Personal Best: Personal Best: 1st Overall European Youth Cup (B) 2017 7th World Cup (L) Arco 2018 3rd World Youth Championships (B) Innsbruck 2017 8th World Cup (L) Chamonix 2017 20th European Championships (B) Munich 2017 5th European Youth Championships (B) Grindelwald 2013 21st World Cup (B) Munich 2017 1st World Youth Championships (L) Edinburgh 2010

44 45 orld Cup = Boulder W BWC up ead World C LWC = L ouldering FEMALE Pro Athletes B = B FEMALE Pro Athletes ead L = L peed S = S

75 // Lilli KIESGEN (GER) 78 // Andrea KÜMIN (SUI)

Nationality: German Hometown: Bad Vilbel Nationality: Swiss Hometown: Winkel Date of Birth: 02 July 1996 Climber since: 2008 Date of Birth: 29 October 1997 Climber since: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: 23 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: 25 BWC Overall 2018: 65 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: 9 BWC Overall 2017: 33 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: 27 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: 39 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: 66

Personal Best: Personal Best: 3rd German Championships (B) Friedrichshafen 2018 10th European Championships (B) Munich 2017 12th World Cup (B) Tokyo 2017 10th World Cup (B) Meiringen 2017 9th World Championship (B) Paris 2016 3rd Bächli Swiss Cup (L) Uster 2016 1st German Youth Lead Cup 2015 6th World Youth Championship (L) Guangzhou 2016

76 // Petra KLINGLER (SUI) 79 // Di NIU (CHN)

Nationality: Swiss Hometown: Bonstetten Nationality: China Hometown: Wuhan Date of Birth: 14 February 1992 Climber since: 1995 Date of Birth: 22 September 1996 Climber since: 2005 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: 19 BWC Overall 2018: 15 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: 5 BWC Overall 2017: 5 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: 21 BWC Overall 2017: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: 8 BWC Overall 2016: 8 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: -

Personal Best: Personal Best: 4th World Cup (B) Moscow 2018 18th World Cup (S) Tai’an 2018 3rd European Championships (B) Munich 2017 18th World Cup (S) Chonquing 2018 1st World Championship (B) Paris 2016 7th Asian Continental Championship (S) Tehran 2017 1st World Cup (B) Haiyang 2015 8th Asian Continental Championship (B) Ningbo 2015 77 // Julija KRUDER (SLO) 81 // Hannah MEUL (GER)

Nationality: Slovenian Hometown: Škofja Vas Nationality: German Hometown: Frechen Date of Birth: 19 November 1997 Climber since: 2002 Date of Birth: 03 April 2001 Climber since: 2008 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: 21 BWC Overall 2018: 74 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: 42 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: 18 BWC Overall 2017: 31 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: 36 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: 6 BWC Overall 2016: 23 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: -

Personal Best: Personal Best: 6th World Cup (B) Munich 2016 11th European Youth Championships (L) Imst 2018 3rd European Youth Cup (B) L’Argentière 2016 2nd Overall European Youth Cup (B) 2017 6th World Youth Championship (B) Arco 2015 5th World Youth Championships (B) Innsbruck 2017 2nd European Youth Cup (B) Laengenfeld 2014 12th World Cup (B) Meiringen 2017

46 47 orld Cup = Boulder W BWC up ead World C LWC = L ouldering FEMALE Pro Athletes B = B ead L = L peed S = S

82 // Elnaz REKABI (IRI)

Nationality: Iranian Hometown: Zanjan Date of Birth: 20 July 1989 Climber since: 2001 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: 39 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: 14 BWC Overall 2016: 66

Personal Best: 4th Asian Continental Championships (L) Tehran 2017 1st GORE-TEX® Be a Rockstar 2016 16th World Cup (B, S) Baku 2014 2nd Asian Championship (B) 2013

83 // Ajda REMSKAR (SLO)

Nationality: Slovenian Hometown: Tržič Date of Birth: 01 July 1995 Climber since: 2001 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: -

Personal Best: 1st GORE-TEX® Be a Rockstar 2017 1st European University Championships (B) Split 2017 6th World University Championships (L) Shanghai 2016 16th European Youth Cup (B) Laengenfeld 2014 84 // Tatiana SHEMULINKINA (RUS)

Nationality: Russian Hometown: Moscow Date of Birth: 27 July 1987 Climber since: 1996 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: -

Personal Best: 1st adidas ROCKSTARS Russia 2018 3rd World Cup (B) Sofia 2007 5th European Championships (B) Birmingham 2007 7th World Championships (B) Munich 2005

48 orld Cup = Boulder W BWC up ead World C LWC = L ouldering FEMALE Pro Athletes B = B FEMALE Pro Athletes ead L = L peed S = S

85 // Franziska STERRER (AUT) 89 // Vita LUKAN (SLO)

Nationality: Austrian Hometown: Innsbruck Nationality: Slovenian Hometown: Radovljica Date of Birth: 18 November 1998 Climber since: 2005 Date of Birth: 11 Oktober 2000 Climber since: 2008 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: 26 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: 11 BWC Overall 2017: 29 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: 44 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: 33 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: -

Personal Best: Personal Best: 11th World Cup (B) Vail 2018 1st World Youth Championships (L) Moscow 2018 1st European Youth Championships (B) Slany 2017 6th World Cup (L) Briançon 2018 2nd European Youth Cup (B) Overall 2017 1st European Youth Championships (L) Perm 2017 3rd Austrian Championship (B) Graz 2016 2nd World Youth Championships (B) Guangzhou 2016

86 // Laura STÖCKLER (AUT)

Nationality: Austrian Hometown: Haag Date of Birth: 01 September 1999 Climber since: 2000 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: -

Personal Best: 3rd European Youth Championships (B) Slany 2017 3rd European Youth Championships (L) Perm 2017 1st World Youth Championships (combined) Innsbruck 2017 5th World Youth Championships (B) Innsbruck 2017 87 // Natsumi HIRANO (JPN)

Nationality: Japanese Hometown: Tokyo Date of Birth: 29 July 2002 Climber since: 2012 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: -

Personal Best: 1st adidas ROCKSTARS Tokyo 2018 24th World Cup (L) Briançon 2018 16th World Youth Championships (B) Guangzhou 2016

50 orld Cup = Boulder W BWC up ead World C LWC = L ouldering FEMALE Pro Athletes B = B FEMALE Pro Athletes ead L = L peed S = S

90 // Tjaša SLEMENŠEK (SLO) 93 // Urška REPUŠIČ (SLO)

Nationality: Slovenian Hometown: Velenje Nationality: Slovenian Hometown: Rače Date of Birth: 18 March 1999 Climber since: 2007 Date of Birth: 05 June 2000 Climber since: 2007 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: 67 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: 29 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: 15 BWC Overall 2017: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: 33 adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: -

Personal Best: Personal Best: 5th World Youth Championship (L) Guangzhou 2016 2nd World Youth Championships (B) Moscow 2018 1st European Youth Cup (B) L’Argentière 2016 5th World Youth Championships (L) Moscow 2018 2nd European Youth Cup (B) Overall 2016 12th World Cup (B) Hachioji 2018 1st European Youth Cup (B) Laengenfeld 2015 1st European Youth Cup (B) Overall 2018

91 // Lučka RAKOVEC (SLO)

Nationality: Slovenian Hometown: Ljubljana Date of Birth: 06 May 2001 Climber since: 2007 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: -

Personal Best: 2nd World Youth Championships (B) Moscow 2018 20th World Cup (L) Briançon 2018 4th European Youth Championships (B) Slany 2017 6th European Youth Championships (L) Mitterdorf 2016 92 // Mia KRAMPL (SLO)

Nationality: Slovenian Hometown: Golnik Date of Birth: 21 July 2000 Climber since: 2006 adidas ROCKSTARS 2017: - BWC Overall 2018: 36 adidas ROCKSTARS 2016: - BWC Overall 2017: - adidas ROCKSTARS 2015: - BWC Overall 2016: -

Personal Best: 7th World Cup (L) Briançon 2018 3rd European Youth Championships (L) Mitterdorf 2016 2nd World Youth Championships (L) Arco 2015 1st European Youth Championships (L) Edinburgh 2015

52 5. TICKET TO ROCKSTARS FINAL PRESENTED BY GORE-TEX //////////////////////////////

Ticket to Rockstars is a stepping-stone for talented amateurs. At the grand season’s final of the global adidas grassroots series enthusiastic hobby climbers can win a wildcard for the pro competition.

A total of 130 participants (men and women) are permitted to this contest at the Porsche- Arena. Like all other Ticket to Rockstars event the final is run in a jam session format, which means the athletes must climb eight different boulder problems in a random order within a given time frame. The array of challenging problems built by the international rout setter team is based on the qualification boulders of the pros.

NEW: The first time in the history of this amateur competition, the Ticket to Rockstars Final presented by GORE-TEX rewards 6 wildcards. The top 3 men and women of the jam session directly enter the semifinal round on Saturday morning. There they compete alongside the top stars of the international bouldering circuit for a place in the adidas ROCKSTARS final.

55 6. ADIDAS ROCKSTARS BOULDER WALLS

Boulder walls (left/right): Two 9m wide walls, constructed by Sintroc consisting of 300 boards/ 1200 hinges/ 5000 screws 200 adjustable board holders/ 70 steel beams

Super boulder (centre): boulder with two identical walls, constructed by Walltopia

Volumes and holds: Voltomic, Cheeta, Flatholds, Squadra

Total width of stage: 42m

The two nine-meter-wide boulder walls and the super boulder have been built specifically for this competition. Thus none of the athletes have an advantage in terms of experience. The set-up of the complex climbing walls starts one week prior to the event.

57 7. ROUTE SETTERS /////////////////////////////////////

The quality of the routes is vital for a good competition. After all, adidas ROCKSTARS wants to highlight the skills of the international bouldering elite. At the same time, the route setters try to live up to the interests of spectators and the media. That asks for in - stinct feel. Boulders have to be set in a fair way with equal opportunities for all athletes and they should challenge the climbers in any round of competition in a range of clim - bing skills and styles, typically including both power and strength, technique, balance, coordination and dynamic movements, but also less physical skills like tenacity, com - mitment and problem-solving. In the best of cases, only one athlete masters the most difficult problem. But if the boulders are too tough, it could backfire. This is when the 100 years of competition experience of the adidas ROCKSTARS route setting team come into play.

Laurent „Larry“ Laporte (FRA) has more than 20 years of experience in route setting. He can’t really remember how he got into building boulders, but he knows very well why he‘s still passionately doing it: he loves being creative. He enjoys trying the boulder himself, the tension during the competition and the relief afterwards. Laurent has already set six World Championships and various World Cup routes. To the Frenchman each contest is a new challenge. In his opinion the biggest difficulty to set a good route is to play with the rhythm, always searching for new concepts to be able to screw a good show. In his spare time, Larry carves climbing holds, listens to Nirvana and AC/DC or just surfs on the wave of his life. is being creative. Furthermore my inspiration that climbing gives me. It‘s that kind of job that motivates you. And I really enjoy working in teams, which can be quite spiritual work Reinhard Fichtinger (AUT) , better known as "Reini", has joined adidas ROCKSTARS since as we exchange experiences.“ Route setting is just one of Adam’s climbing activities, but its inception. The Austrian started climbing over 20 years ago and was leading the Austrian it is the one he can think of as a job and, what‘s more important, it keeps him connected competition ranking for a long time together with Kilian Fischhuber. Today he is an instruc - to the competition community. In his spare time, he enjoys sport climbing, traditional and tor for Austrian route setters. Reini set his first routes in his local climbing gym in Inns - . And that‘s where Adam sees his climbing goals. Setting lets him see bruck, when it was first built. In 2001 he set his first competition . Since then he has been everything from a different side and a more professional angle. working hard for his well-deserved reputation as a route setter, which proceeds him in Aus - tria and worldwide. His motivation results from the constant need for new training routes. His philosophy when setting routes is that they must not only be interesting for climbers, Tomasz “Toma” Oleksy (POL) is one of the most successful athletes in Polish sport climbing but also for spectators. He gets around much and loves listening to “eich dodln gib i gas“ history. He participated in competitions for over 20 years in all three disciplines. His favorite by Austrofed, while climbing and working. He is a down to earth person, who enjoys hanging discipline is bouldering, in which he won many supreme titles. In 2003, he began with route out with his mates in a boulder gym and pursues his passion - CLIMBING! setting. Since 2012 he has been working regularly for the IFSC as route setter - mainly for bouldering competitions, although he feels confident in lead as well. In 2015, Toma decided to earn his living with route setting and he is glad to have turned his passion into a career. Adam Pustelnik (POL) is originally from Poland but feels like he belongs anywhere and Most of the time you can find him creating new boulders in several bouldering gyms in Ger - is at home everywhere. Adam has been climbing for more than 20 years and that is pretty many (e.g. Studio Bloc, OstBloc, SüdBloc, …). Tomasz is the director of the climbing division much what his life is all about. He is currently working as route setter, translator, teacher, of “MKS Tarnovia” where he trains children and young people. He also works as organizer and writer. During the past 10 years, Adam was able to work as head route setter for na - of many climbing competitions in his hometown Tarnów. In the future, he would like to open tional and international competitions like World Cups, Youth World Championships and his own climbing gym and have more time for outdoor bouldering. the 2012 IFSC World Championship in Paris. Since 2007, Adam has been instructing and managing Polish route setters. What he enjoys about route setting? „First of all the aspect of creating something new that we want to see them play with. So one of the main values

58 59 Tsukuru Hori (JPN) is the second router setter in the team that has already experienced place at Gore-Tex® Be a Rockstar 2013 as well as a fourth place in the German University adidas ROCKSTARS as pro athlete. In 2013, he placed 10th in Stuttgart. Tsukuru started Championship in the same year. Outdoors he has bouldered and climbed 7c+ routes flash climbing at the age of elven. He has been a member of the Japanese national team for and on-sight, respectively. After so many years of route setting he is still driven by the over a decade, always ranking in the top 15 at World Cups and World Championships. In same motivation that makes sports climbing so unique: the combination of creativity and 2015, he won the Asian Continental Championships ahead of his talented young team athletic achievement, the sheer endless diversity of movement and climbing styles and mates Keita Watabe, Rei Sugimonto and Tomoa Narasaki. Meanwhile the 28-year old has the fact that you never stop learning. started to establish a sound basis for his after-sports career. He works as route setter and as Japanese distributor for the Swiss company Flathold, who say about him “he is as Katrin Lehmann (GER) aka „Kaddi“ has been climbing for 15 years. Ever since she started attentive to shapes as to how he intends to use them in training, and he always stays up the sport she can no longer imagine a life without. In the beginning she successfully par - to date . Even though he is first and foremost a competition climber, his performances on ticipated in Lead and Bouldering competitions where she always ended up on the po - rock speak for themselves such as his ascent of Memento in Austria or Takakimikura in dium. After graduating from school, she took off for an extensive climbing trip, which Japan, both 8b+.” aroused her passion for rock climbing. Kaddi spends most of her time in Fontainebleau, her favourite ‘climbing school’ among bouldering areas, because there you can always learn something new. She loves ’s Rocklands, too, since the area offers so Robert Leistner (GER) is a full-time route setter and has been mounting holds and steps many beautiful lines and so many new boulders to discover and send. When Kaddi is not since 2008. He is a national chief route setter and has gained international experience climbing on rock, she sets routes for competitions. She is an official DAV (German Alpine during the World Championships and World Cups in Munich over the past years. He re - Cup) route setter, but also sets regular boulders for gyms or fun competitions. Kaddi has gularly sets training boulders for the German National Team and is especially involved in been on the setter team for the Swiss Bouldering Championships a few times. She enjoys regional kids cups. Robert shapes holds for the brand Blocz and runs the Mandala boul - the creativity that’s involved in route setting. “You can build something cool onto the wall der gym in Dresden. However, most of all he loves brushing rocks in Fontainebleau or and try it. It’s always thrilling to see whether a problem can be solved during a competi - scaring himself in the Elbe sandstone mountains, high above the last ring. Robert says tion. Climbing and route setting never gets boring, because it involves so many different "... route setting is about creating emotions! The focus is not on the movement or the vi - moves. No climbing move is like the other.” sual impact, it's more about the feeling of the athlete and the audience.“

Felix Buchmann (GER) has been setting boulder routes in several climbing gyms for al - most a decade , mainly in Southern Germany. He has worked as official DAV (German Al - pine Club) route setter for many competitions like CLIMB F.R.E.E. at the Munich Fair or porte (FRA) er (AUT) N) L) „Larry“ La rd Fichting ru Hori (JP stelnik (PO the Bavarian Championships. In addition, Felix organizes and sets amateur contests for Laurent Reinha Tsuku Adam Pu his DAV home division. His best achievements in competition bouldering include a second

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61 8. MUSIC ACTS ///////////////////////////////////////////// CLIMBING MEETS MUSIC! ////////////////////////////////

FRENCH CONNECTION: MC/ BEATBOXER DJ EKLIPS VS. DJ ANTAR DJ CHAINSAW

Eklips’ craft is beatboxing, also known as vocal percussion. He produces drum beats and Chainsaw ranks among the hottest extreme sports DJs in Europe. Since 1990, the native Fran - rhythm using only his mouth, nose and throat. The French rapper and beatboxer is a much conian has been spinning records at Club Labyrinth in Würzburg and since 1996 he has been acclaimed superstar within the community and – thanks to the digital age – known far beyond on tour for sporting events and club gigs all over Europe. In 2006, he was the responsible music the music scene, not least because of beatboxing the entire history of hip-hop in just 4 minutes director for the snowboard events at the Olympic Winter Games in Torino. For X-Fighters in for a video that went viral across the globe ( over 53 million views on youtube). DJ Eklips has Rome, he inspired the freestyle motocross elite. And at adidas ROCKSTARS in Stuttgart, Chain - recorded several albums: Skyzofrench Rap, Monster and lastly LIPS, an impressive 100 percent saw wants to push the world‘s best climbers to top form. DJ CHAINSAW vocal project with soul, funk and jazz influences. The Frenchman finds stimulation for his crea - tivity in all kinds of music. “Michael Jackson very much inspired me,” he says. He particularly loves Jackson’s early songs, but he also covers all kinds of classic tunes that you can hear on DJ SUNGOD the radio. “Hip-hop, jazz, I like them all.” His favorite piece on his new album, an album that took him a mere three weeks to record, is an imitation of Stanley Clarke’s stately saxophone Since 1998, DJ Sungod has worked in his hometown Würzburg as resident DJ at the well- number from the movie “Boyz n the Hood” . The Parisian also enthuses the masses when per - known Indie-disco „Labyrinth“. He’s proven his talent as rock DJ at various national and in - forming his beatboxing and imitation art live. During last year’s Sennheiser MOMENTUM PRO - ternational events, e.g. at the youth fair „You“ in Dortmund, the „Up From The Ground“ JECT he rapped as fast as Eminem: 105 words in 16 seconds . festival in Gemünden or the Boarder Cross World Cup in Méribel (FRA). bigFM DJ Antar also hails from . With over 20 years of experience in the music business he is playing in clubs all over Europe . In the course of his project La MixTure he sold over DJ P. 100,000 pieces of his album „Operation Freestyle“ . For many years, DJ P. has been the embodiment of black music in Southern Germany. As Eklips and Antar regulary perform together as music act FRENCH CONNECTION. member of the Ghosttown DJs, he’s been touring through Asia twice (Taiwan Tour 2005/2006) and he’s played all over Eastern Europe (Onyx Tour 2006). Besides, he opened and played for US legends like BUSTA RHYMES, DESTINY'S CHILD, DMX and USHER . Week after week the Stuttgart-based DJ spins the tunes on radio bigFM and rocks through the nation. D O G N R U A S T

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Stuttgart’s Porsche-Arena opened in May 2006 celebrating its premiere with the German live TV show “Verstehen Sie Spaß?”. It’s the perfect venue for a diversity of events, like handball, basketball, tennis, ice hockey, boxing, music concerts or corporate events. With a capacity of 7,500 seats, the Porsche-Arena is a true “quick-change genius” and offers boundless possibilities. The Porsche-Arena was a cauldron for the Handball World Cham - pionship matches. It’s where women tennis players have had to play on ice. Obviously not directly, but the permanently installed frozen surface makes it easy to stage ice hockey matches and shows like Holiday on Ice.

Thanks to its steep grandstands, all spectators are close to the action. Stars and bands are within grasp, which creates a unique atmosphere. The hall is predestined for sports. Depending on the event, different floors can be laid in the shortest possible time.

64 65 Lead (competitive climbing) 11. GLOSSARY ////////////////////////////////////////////// Climbing discipline undertaken with a rope. The athletes have to climb a challenging route of about 15 - 20 meters height on-sight (with no prior practice). The maximum height is va - luated. Athletes are allowed to study the routes from the bottom a few minutes before the competition starts. Bonus/ Zone Each boulder problem is equipped with a “zone” hold, i.e. holding of a specific handle for extra points, even without completing the problem. Pinchers You grab that hold with your fingers and thumb, i.e. you must pinch it to hold on. Bouldering Is a style of rock climbing undertaken without a rope and normally limited to very short Route/ Problem climbs over a crash pad (called a bouldering mat) so that a fall will not result in serious A route or problem is a particular sequence of a several holds and steps on a boulder wall, injury. It is typically practiced on large natural boulders or artificial boulders in gyms and set by the route setter. outdoor urban areas. The goal of competitive bouldering is to reach a hold that is marked as ‘top’ using as few attempts as possible. Therefore, bouldering emphasizes power, strength, and dynamics. Sloper Climbers must use an open hand (like palming a basketball) to grab on to these holds that have little to no difference in surface texture. That makes it pretty difficult to climb that spe - Crimp(er)s cific hold. A hold which is only just big enough to be grasped with the tips of the fingers.

Speed (competitive climbing) Deadpoint The goal of speed climbing is to climb a route as fast as possible. In each round two athletes The Deadpoint is basically a controlled dynamic move where you use momentum to gain a are climbing identical routes next to each other. After a short brake they switch sides and higher handhold. In a deadpoint you still maintain at least one or two points of contact with climb again. The faster athlete advances to the next round. the rock.

Top Dyno One hold on the boulder wall is marked as top. To solve the boulder probem successfully the The Dyno is similiar to a deadpoint except you leave contact with the rock while making a athlete must reach that specific hold and hold it for 3 seconds. lunge for a higher hold.

Transit Zone Flash After his first climbing attempt the athlete must return to the transit zone, where he prepares To successfully complete a boulder problem on the first attempt. himself for the next round. From there it is not possible to see the boulder wall or other ath - letes during their climb to avoid unfair advantage. Foot hook A climbing technique involving hooking a heel or toe against a hold in order to balance or to Volumes provide additional support. Volumes are an extremely large type of hold that any variety of holds can be attached to. The volume is attached to the wall, and it has pre-placed t-nuts in it to which other holds can be attached. In the past, volumes were primarily made from wood. Nowadays they come in a IFSC variety of materials (including fiberglass, coated wood, resin, urethane, and moulded plastic) The International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) is the international governing body for and shapes. Volumes are especially prevalent in Europe and on the World Cup circuit, where the sport of competitive climbing, which consists of the disciplines lead climbing, speed sometimes entire routes will be constructed from gigantic volumes. climbing, and bouldering.

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