IFSC have sent out BMI notifications to WC athletes

During the Lead World Championship in Gijon, IFSC measured the weight and height of all the athletes in order to measure the BMI. Now, IFSC have sent a personal warning to all athletes, below what it seems, BMI 18 for the female and 17 for the male, which also their federation received. The federations have been told that they must confirm that they received the BMI warning in order to get a competition license 2015. Already six years ago, 8a started to discuss the subject and suggested that IFSC should follow up that some climbers were to skinny based on BMI 17. Independent wrote an article based on this. Austria demands since many years BMI 17 for male and 18 for female in order to compete in the WCs. Here are some examples to just score below 17. 180 cm = 54 kg 170 cm = 48 kg 160 cm = 43 kg