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As we already said, Chamonix organized also a Bouldering World Cup but the
weather ruined this competition too, that should have taken place in two
days. The first day had to be canceled, and all the program had to be
concentrated on Sunday, hoping in a weather improvement. Start at 9 AM
with 120 competitors coming from all over the world. Four boulder moves to
climb during the qualification. Five minutes climbing and five minutes
resting. Then climb again. For the ranking it counts the number of
completed boulders, the needed tries, the number of reached "zones".
Evaluating the "zone" gives additional points to the ones who
didn't reach the top but all the same reached a high hold of the boulder.
For the Italian colors to remark the good performance of Giulia Gianmarco,
who reaches the final with the highest score in the qualification. In the
men's field the best result for for the Italian men is the one of Riccardo
Scarian, 23°. Behind Luca Giudici 34° and even worse the '99 reigning
champion Christian Core, 39°. Among not few
difficulties the event continues until the end. And clearly the sun comes
out a little, and we can admire the exceptional landscape, with the Mont
Blanc granit sprinkled white by the snow and swept by a cold wind the
renders even stronger the enviromental contrast. Great victory of the
Russian school, that dominates the field. In the men's field three of the
first four athletes come from the Eastern countries. No history for the
women's contest, where Choumilova demonstrates to be without concurrents
this year, in absence of Bodet, motivated by other objectives (hard routes
in the crags). Unlucky performance of Gianmarco, who perhaps pays for the
emotions of her first international final. At last she finishes with a
good eleventh place, important condition to perform better in the future.
During the final prize giving cerimony the local autorities have declared
that in the future is their desire to widen and enhance the value of this
event, until it becomes a reference point in the climbing and competition
world.
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