Garnbret superior once again

Janja Garnbret flashed all four boulders in the World Championship final with ease. The Slovenian has won all three Boulder World Championships she has participated in and possibly she is more superior than ever, at age 24. In practice, the boulders need to be harder in order to challenge her to the fullest and it would be interesting to see her trying the male boulders. (c) Jan Virt/IFSC

Runner-up was 18-year-old Oriane Bertone, who did three boulders in seven attempts ahead of Brooke Raboutou flashing two boulders. Complete results

”It’s hard to put into words right now what I feel. To be honest I never get used to winning. I will probably never get used to stepping onto the podium and celebrating the first place because it’s just so incredibly hard to keep the level up because the girls are so strong and coming after me, and it’s hard to keep up with them. Every win means the world to me, it’s always like the first one.

The boulders were tricky, so it was easy to fall, but today I was ‘the right Janja’, as I like to call it, where I was in my own world and my own bubble. I didn’t hear or see anything because I was just in the present moment and just enjoying myself on the wall, so I didn’t doubt that I would fall once because I was just climbing and enjoying.

The best moments were probably the slabs. Everyone knows I haven’t been the greatest on slabs this year because of the injury and everything going on, it was pretty tough for me training that, so every time I topped a slab I was incredibly happy.”