Great fun when Sweden tries the Combined format - EDITED

Although Sweden has two of the best junior competition climbers in the world, Hannes Puman and Kajsa Rosén, the Lead competition scene here is almost dead. Based on this information, the national coach, Reino Horak suggested to follow the Combined Olympic format, add a dyno competition and run the Nationals over three days. It worked just great and in total some 60 participants did over 200 starters. The dyno competition started on Saturday evening and even if everyone did know that their skin and fatigue were going just to get worse, all the big names were on the list and everybody had fun until late. Surely, the non-competitive atmosphere was created because Hannes and Kajsa were estimated to be superior and instead of focusing on the result, the competitors focused on the challenges that were offered. Lesson learnt is that the climbers are more interested in having fun with challenges than just in the result and that in the future the comps have to include both aspects. What is interesting is that Mina Markovic reports from the Sloveinan Nationals in the same way. "I finished 2nd, but was satisfied with my climb. But moreover, I am really pleased with nice environment, people, energy and sharing during comp, on training(s) and outdoor climbing day(s) after... Thank you all!