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Japanese double *2 for Juniors in Dallas
In the U-20, Japan got the gold and the silver for both the boys and the girls. Interestingly, only one of the 8 + 8 finalists are from western Europe. Among the girls, Nonoha Kume won ahead of Natsuki Tanii which was quite a surprise, although Kume won also last year. Tanii has been Top-9 in all the 12 World Cups she has attended since 2019 meanwhile, Kume has not yet participated in a World Cup. "At the beginning of the route I felt quite uncomfortable. There was a hard move, but when I got passed that I knew I was in with a good shot of a win. I’m very happy."
From the complete results we can see that five of the girl finalists are from eastern Europe.
Among the oldest boys, Japan had three in the Top-4 with, Zento Murashita and Junta Sekiguchi getting the gold and silver. In Boulder, they were #2 and #3. Lovro Crep, who won the semifinal, from Slovenia got the bronze. complete results and here is the IFSC report.
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