Laura Rogora, who just won the Youth World Championship in Boulder, reports on Insta that she has done La Reina Murata 8c in Arco. This was her 125th route 8a and harder. Including two 9a's, out of which the first when she was just 14 years old, several 8c+' and 8b onsights her ticklist should rank in the female all time Top-10. Last year, she was 6th in a Lead WC as well as in the European Championship. Interesting is that her home gym in Rome is just a rather small bouldering wall. (c) Giampop Calza Next on her intensive schedule is the World Championship in Innsbruck. starting 6/9. "For the autumn I will train for the youth Olympic games that are taking place in October."

Choong Katherine, who last year four times was Top-16 in the Lead World Cup, has done her first 9a, Cabane au Canada. (c) Rainer Eder "One of my main goal this year was to climb a 9a. After falling two times at the top of Era Vella last spring, I decided to try another route near my place, Rawyl, a beautiful crag in Valais (south of Switzerland). I already tried it once last year but was not able to do one move on the upper part of the route. A dynamic move hard for short people like me that don’t know how to jump. But as the new style of the World cup route changed, I did more bouldering this year and was finally able to find a solution. But I kept falling again and again in this last section since June. This weekend was my last chance to do it for a long time and maybe that was the key for me. The pressure of the last chance worked and on my last day, after 4 days in a raw of climbing, 3rd try of the day, something clicked. It was the kind of moment in climbing when every move felt easier, I found my flow. I finally sticked the dyno and clipped the chains of Cabane a few minutes before the night. Now my focus is full again on the IFSC World Championship in two weeks. Then I have plan to go to Flatanger, Norway."

Moritz Welt has done his second 8B+, The Source in Malatal. "First I thought this can't be so much harder than the stand, then it became a real battle. Today it finally went down on the second go of my third session! Perfect line and perfect conditions today!" During the last two weeks, the 17-year-old has also done four other 8A+'. During the summer the German has also done seven routes 8b+ tom 8c+. In the senior Combined ranking game he is #3.

During the last 19 IFSC World Cups and Championships Janja Garnbret has participated in, she has won twelve and never missed the podium. The 19 year old was allowed to start competing in the World Cup in 2015 and out of 22 Lead events, she has won twelve and missed the podium once. In bouldering she started the World Cup circuit in 2016 and she has more or less just competed in half of the events out of which she has won close to 50 %. In two weeks time, she is a very big favorite to defend her Lead World Champion title from Paris in 2016 and also the favorite for the Boulder Championship. Once these two titles are secured, one could say that the teenager is the best female competition climber in the history. (c) Eddie Fowke

Jernej Kruder is the Boulder World Cup winner 2018 as he made it to the final in Munich at the same time as Tomoa Narasaki ended #9. Interestingly, the Slovenian says he seldom trains indoors and instead he is an outdoor allrounder doing everything also multi-pitches. In the 8a Combined ranking game, the 28 year old is #7 and he is going for Tokyo 2020. (c) Eddie Fowke On his Instagram he reported that during the last week he did a 300 m as well as an 8c sport route. During the last weeks he has also been climbing in Céüse and competed in a DWS as well as in the Lead and Speed WC in Chamonix.

Yuji Fujiwaki, who never has made it to the final, won the semi by being the only one to top all four boulders. Also in the qually, the Japanese was the only one to top all problems. Among the female, Janja Garnbret and Fanny Gibert were tied winners. Both Japan and Slovenia did get two male and two female into the final. In total Japan got 5 female Top-11 and 6 male Top-9. Complete results