16 April 2019

Kruder wins great show for Slovenia again

Jernej Kruder qualified last so he started first in the final where he executed them almost perfectly, doing them all in just eight attempts. He was third into the last boulder which he did first go saying, he thought it was too easy. Later nobody come even close. The big sensation was 15 year old Rei kawamata who qualified to the final as #2. Last year he won the Youth WCh in Moscow and he also did his first 8B+. 1. Jernej Kruder 44* SLO (c) Eddie Fowke 2. Adam Ondra 34 CZE 3. Yushiyuki Ogata 33 JPN 4. Anze Peharc 23 SLO 5. Rei Kawamata 13 JPN 6. Vadim Timonov 13 RUS Complete results * 8a presents the results as points by just skipping the Z and t from the normal scoring.
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