Fischhuber retires from WC competitions

ORF.at reports that Kilian Fischhuber, the best male Boulder competitor in the history, will stop competing. The 31 year old won his first WC in 2004 and his last and 21 in his hometown Innsbruck last year. The Austrian has won the overall World Cup five times and been runner up four times. Two times he has been #2 in the world championship and in 2013,he was the European Champion. During especially the beginning of his career he combined his boulder training with doing multipitch climbing and he has also done several 9a's and 8B+' ascents. He says that his next climbing projects will be done in Iran, South Africa and India. Kilian will also accompany his partner, Anna Stöhr, the best female boulder competition in the history, for her World Cups. (c) Heiko Wilhelm