30 May 2022

Grossman gets 3rd consecutive gold and Ogata wins in SLC

Natalia Grossman from the USA was the female topping all four boulders in the Boulder World Cup in Salt Lake City. This was the third consecutive gold for the 20-year-old who started the season by being #2 after Janja Garnbret in Meiringen. During the last eight Boulder WCs, she has been Top-2 including winning the World Championship last year.

"I had no idea what to expect coming into this weekend, I wanted to make another back-to-back happen, but I wasn’t sure," she commented to IFSC. "There were so many points I wanted to give up in this round, I thought it was over after the first boulder, and it was hard to stay positive, but I made it.” Complete female results. (c) Daniel Gajda/IFSC

Among the male, both Yoshiyuki Ogata from Japan and Anze Peharc from Slovenia did all four boulders in five attempts with Ogata winning by countback, using one less try doing all four boulders in the semi. Ogata has made the podium in all four events in 2022. Japan continues their superiority and had three males Top-5 and seven among Top-21. Complete male results

1. Natalia Grossman USA 44 - Yoshiyuki Ogata JPN 44 (5)
2. Miho Nonaka JPN 34 (5) - Anze Peharc SLO 44 (5)
3. Brooke Raboutou USA 34 (6) - Kokoro Fujii JPN 44 (9)
4. Futaba Ito JPN 34 (9) - Jongwon Chon KOR 34 (5)
5. Chaehyun Seo KOR 24 (2) - Rei Kawamata JPN 34
6. Ayala Kerem ISR 24 (3) - Ross Fulkerson USA 23
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