Great route setting at Youth Worlds

The route setting in the Youth World Championship in Voronezh, Russia, was excellent, at least from a difficult point of view. There were very few ties in the finals, almost all boulders, as well as most routes, were topped at the same time as very few climbers did score zero zones. The number of routes set must have been at least four times as many as were set in the Tokyo Olympics, where we saw several big mistakes in Bouldering. The main reason for this has probably to do that the route setters in Russia were as strong as the competitors and also that there was a female route setter. (c) Leo Zhukov