28 June 2015

Petra Klingler - Late bloomer at 23!

"I started already young. Grew up in a climbing family and was in the mountains almost every weekend." Petra Klingler has been an active competition climber since 2006 with a slow but steady development upwards in the rankings. In the Euro Youth Lead events she was normally around #10. In 2009, the Swiss began doing Boulder WCs but it took her eight events before she made it into the Top-20 of the semifinals. Before her victory in Haiyang she had previously been #7 or #8, just missing the top-6 finals seven times, since 2012. "I guess I was ready on the right day. And finally everything came together. I invested quite some time over the last years but this year was not so good, because I had a finger injury at the beginning of the year. So I started training in the middle of march and was not sure I would be able to compete. Preparation was not the best but I was motivated over the last two months because finally I did not have so much pain anymore." When it comes to outdoors, she is also like a late bloomer with a personal best of 8a+ for routes and 8A in bouldering but with her recent peak performance, that just might change soon. "I am flying to the Rocklands next week for some outdoor tick-offs. I am staying four weeks. But I do not really have big plans. Nutsa is one of them but otherwise I just want to climb and enjoy my time with friends and hopefully climb some nice and hard boulders." More pics at PetraKlingler.ch It should be noted that it is very rare in the IFSC WC statistics that a climber who was not among the best as a junior or in the WC debut, has won a World Cup. The recent progress for Petra is very motivating for all the ones that train and fight very hard lower down in the rankings.
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