24 April 2022

Euro Youth Cup - Soure

The second Euro Youth Boulder Cup took place last weekend in Soure in Portugal. The athletes report about a great competition with an almost perfect route setting. The new format is flash in the qualification and then in the finals, the Top-10 rotates on the four boulders. Only Sabina Van Essen won both the qualification and the finals. The Dutch is also the only one who also won the first Euro Cup 2022. Great Britain got the best result with one gold, one silver and one bronze. France, who got three golds in the first event of the season, did not take part.

03: Hannes Van Duysen BEL - Anne Ackre NOR
05: Jack Macdougall GBR - Sabina Van Essen NED
07: Lukas Mokrolusky CZE - Flora Oblasser AUT
Complete results

Noteworthy is that Hannes Van Duysen partly prepared in Fontainbleu, where the 17-year-old did his his first 8B and also Mécanique élémentaire (8B+).
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