Great start of the Youth World Championship in Arco

No country dominated the Boulder Youth World Championship but Japan did get one gold and three silvers. Interesting is that Austria that has been the best competition country for many years for both the seniors and the juniors got just one silver and in total three finalists. Overall, the first Boulder World Championship was a great success for both IFSC and the local organization with great thrilling events, especially in the semifinal as well as the final. With several hundreds starts doing up to 12 boulders each the number of technical incidents and yellow cards etc. was in fact lower than in the Boulder World Cups. The simplest thing to improve the competition would be to add at least one more zone hold, which would make the route setters job easier. This would also mean that not 100+ youngsters have to go back home telling their friends that they were tied dead last with no score at all. Another option could be to skip the isolation in order to avoid that some had to wait there for more than 8 hours and then not score even a zone.