30 August 2014

Sarkany and Barandiaran Arco Rock Legends 2014

PlanetMountain reports that Muriel Sarkany won the Salewa Rock Award and Urko Carmona Barandiaran the La Sportiva Competition Award in the Arco Rock Master 2014. Muriel, one of the best competition climbers in the history, did her first 9a, Punt X, last year being 39 years old. Urko won the European Para Championship for ampute last year. On the picture by Giulio Malfer, the six nominated athletes from left; Ondra, Megos, Sarkany, Barandiaran, Amma, Sharafutdinov. The Rock Award has previously been won four times by Adam Ondra but actually never by Alexander Megos inspite of his 9a onsight etc. The Competition award has nine different winners sin 2006 when the Legends cermony begun.
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