Boulder finals

A Perfect Show

Last out in the finals is Olha Shalagina from Ukraine. Nobody has done the last boulder. Olha has so far done 11 boulders in 11 tries and off course she does it directely and the crowd salutes her. Olha is the queen of the world championship as she also was #4 in the lead event, quite surprising as she hasn't competed in boulder WC's in a year and in lead she was outside the top-10 in the world ranking prior to the world. An interview is hopefully on the way to explain all this.

The men event turned out be another perfect show with super dynamic and spectacular problems which Salavat Rakhmetov from Russia managed to do all in first try, rather easy it actually seemed. Second was Kilian Fischhuber from Austria followed by Gérome Pouvreau who also did all six problems.  

Pictures by: Björn Strömberg

#1 Olha Shalagina - a superior winner and queen of the championship	#3 Vera Kotasova - fighting for the last hold
#2 Ioulina Abramtchouk	Olha
Vera	#5 Anna Stöhr Austria -only girl outside Eastern Europe, top-8
#1 Salavat RAKHMETOV (RUS)	#4 Serik KAZBEKOV (UKR)
#12 Jorg VERHOEVEN (NED)	#12 Jorg VERHOEVEN (NED)
#3 Gérome POUVREAU (FRA)