15 April 2018

Kruder and Nonaka win spectacular show

Jernej Kruder started first of seven finalists and set the bar on extraordinary boulder which all where topped. Boulder two, which he did, including a dynamic quintupleside ways might be one of the most spectacular IFSC boulder as it later was done static as well with a triple double dyno. The Slovenian multi-discipline climber, who prepared himself last weekend by projecting a 9a, is known for his topping celebration face which we got to see often. (c) Eddie Fowke Among the female, the boulders were a little bit to easy as we saw three girls topping out all four boulders with Miho Nonaka winning topping out in only five attempts. 1. Miho Nonaka JPN 44 (5) - Jernej Kruder SLO 34 2. Janja Garnbret SLO 44 (7) - Tomoa Narasaki JPN 24 (3) 3. Akiyo Noguchi JPN 44 (9) - Alexei Rubtsov RUS 24 (5) 4. Sandra Lettner AUT 34 - Jakob Schubert AUT 23 5. Fanny Gibert FRA (33) - Tomoaki Takata JPN 13 6. Shauna Coxsey GBR -(23) Jongwon Chon KOR 7. Manu Cornu FRA Complete results
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