19 February 2020

Hakuna Matata 9a by Marcello Bombardi

Marcello Bombardi, who won the WC in Chamonix in 2017, has done his second 9a, Hakuna Matata in Cubo. It should be mentioned that Cubo is crag with numerous drilled pocket and both Marcello and Adam Ondra, who did the second ascent, of the Alberto Gnerro FA, marked it as chipped. The 164 cm tall was #31 in the Combined WC 2019 and he still has once chance left to make it to Tokyo. His Speed PB is 7.37. "I'm currently training for the European Championship at the end of March where there is one last spot for the Olympics. It will be very hard but as long as there is a chance I will try hard to qualify. If this won't happen then I will happy anyway to take one year focusing only on lead and trying some hard route outside.
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