23 August 2014

Ondra and Wurm Boulder World Champions

In a thrilling world championship where it come down to the last seconds in the last boulder, Adam Ondra and Juliane Wurm took the victories. The route setting was excellent throughout the whole competition. (c) Eddie Fowke Adam Ondra in the IFSC live streaming: "It feels amazing. I feel like a lucky winner. I have not been training so much but I think that yet this might helped a lot since I did not feel any pressure as I just climbed the best I could...I have been training for Lead." 1. Adam Ondra 4t16 4b16 - Jule Wurm 3t8 4b8 2. Jernej Kruder 3t12 4b13 - Alex Puccio 3t9 4b9 3. Jan hojer 3t12 3b9 - Akiyo Noguchi 1t1 3b3 4. Gui-Gui Mondet 2t6 3b7 - Shauna Coxsey 1t4 4b7 5. Dima Sharafutdinov 1t4 3b9 - Melissa Le Neve 0t 3b3 Click on the above links to see their 8a scorecards. In 2010, Adam Ondra won the World Cup overall being 17 years old and since than he has done only three boulder comps being #2 in all; Euro Championship 2010, World Championship 2011 and WC Innsbruck 2014. Jule Wurm started out as a successful lead junior climber winning three Euro Youth Cups. In 2009, she did her first Boulder WC and was #4. During the following season, she has been #6 to #4 overall and in 2013 she won one event. In 2014, she has done 10 boulders 8A and harder.
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