Extreme progress and domination by Japan

Excluding Speed, Japan has been totally superior in the Youth World Champion with 4 golds and a total of 13 medals. Runner up is USA with 3 golds and 5 medals in total. Europe has gotten the rest of the medals, 1 gold and a total of 6 medals. In the the Youth World Champion in 2015 in Arco, Japan got six medals in total out of which one gold. Europe got eight golds and a total of 24 medals. It is like a complete up-side down turn over in just two years. It should also be mentioned that meanwhile the best nations in Europe often have participated with six guys in each category, Japan has just participated with 2 - 4 athletes in each category. As climbing is getting into the Olympics in Tokyo 2020, what we have seen so far, also among the seniors, is just a beginning of a total domination. Remember that the Japanese boulderers said after Munich that their success recipe has nothing to do with physical training, instead they almost only just tried to do as many boulder challenges as possible.