40 min bouldering Top-8 finals in Nordic Youth

In the Youth Nordic Championships in Finland, they divided the eight finalist in two groups and let them start on all four boulders at the same time. Including the fixed 5 min interval, the finals took just 40 min each for eight participants. If they would have used the normal final format, identical to WC semis, the finals would have taken 70 minutes each. Instead of finishing at 17.30 and some missing the flights back home, the competition was finished 14.30. In the competition the new format worked perfectly, Norway with Nicki Horak as Head coach and who took the format initiative, got more than 50 % of the medals. In the youngest girl category, Norway was 1 - 6.