15 October 2017

Korenaga and Verhoeven win in Xiamen

Anak Veroeven, who won the World games as well as the Euro Championship, got her first WC Lead victory in 2017 by topping out with ease. Looking confident as ever, Janja Garnbret mistimed a jump as she climb pretty fast, in order to beat Anak's time. (C) Eddie Fowke - The Circuit Climbing Among the male, it was a total Asia domination with Keiichiro Korenaga getting his first Lead victory and he jumped to third overall. Tomoa Narasaki was runner up as last week in Wuijang. Due to schedule changes he had not time to do the Speed qualification but at this point, he seems to be well ahead of the others on their way to Tokyo 2020. 1. Keiichiro Korenaga JPN - Anak Verhoeven BEL 2. Tomoa Narasaki JPN - Ashima Shiraishi 3. YuFei Pan CHI - Janja Garnbret SLO 4. Jongwon Chon KOR - Jessica Pilz AUT 5. Fedir Samoilov UKR - Mina Markovic SLO Complete results Noteworthy is that it YuFei Pan was #13 in the Youth A World Championship in Innsbruck where he also got 7.95 in Speed, meaning he is also a contender for the Olympics. Among the female, ranked 3 to 5th were ranked based on time. It must also be mentioned that the live-streaming had big problems but luckily towards the end of both finals, everything worked out great.
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