Bertone and Roberts get their tickets to Paris

Oriane Bertone (FRA) and Toby Roberts (GBR) were in top form at the Laval European Olympic qualifiers. The 18-year-olds first won the semifinal with big margins and in the final, they continued dominating the event. Bertone got 99.9 points in boulder and Roberts scored 100 points in Lead. (c) Jan Virt/IFSC

1. Oriane Bertone FRA 171.9 - Toby Roberts GBR 169.8
2. Stasa Gejo SRB 148.5 - Alberto Gines Lopez ESP 133.7
3. Laura Rogora ITA 145.7 - Sam Avezou FRA 132.9
4. Ievgeniia Kazbekova UKR 141.7 - Adam Ondra CZE 132.9
5. Zelia Avezou FRA 136.7 - Yannick Flohe GER 130.8
Complete female results and Complete male results

Bertone when interviewed by the IFSC said: “I was trying to pay attention to the crowd’s reaction whenever I was grabbing a new hold,” said the French climber. “I was thinking ‘Is it this one? No.’ ‘Is it the next one? No.’ And when I took the one I heard everybody go crazy, I turned my head so that I could see the screen and saw my name up there. I don’t even know what to say, I’m crazy happy.

I am very happy with the consistency that I have displayed throughout the whole event: I was first in qualification, first in semi-final, and first in final, and that is not an easy thing to do. I was especially very happy with my bouldering, I’m not very satisfied about my Lead climb because I was pretty stressed."

Roberts; "I have literally no words now. I don’t think is ever going to sink in. Coming into this event, I tried not to have any expectations and just enjoy climbing. It is such a big dream for me, I’ve been training for it for so long. I came so close to it in Bern, but I think I let the pressure get the best of me there, and my weaknesses got exposed. So the aim going away from Bern was to work on my weaknesses, come into this event with a clear head and just enjoy the climbing."