Kiromal Katibin breaks Speed WR twice

Kiromal Katibon from Indonesia, who was #14 in the Speed Junior World Championship in 2019, did break the Speed World record twice in Salt Lake City. The previous record was 5.48 by Reza Alipour from 2017 and Kiromal made 5.32 and 5.25. Also his teammate Leonardo Viddriq broke the record with 5.37. It should be noted that Qixin Zhong has unofficially done 5.35 winning the China Nationals.

Only nine of the 20 male Olympians participated and Mickael Mawem was fastest by the non-Speed specialist with 6.28. Tomoa Narasaki, who has a PB at 5.73, made a false start in his first run and then he was disqualified for participating in the second. Noteworthy is that neither Alex Megos or Adam Ondra did participate although having signed up for competing. Complete results.

Among the female, Olympian Aleksandra Miroslaw, who is not doing any of the two Boulder World Cups in Salt Lake City, won the qualification with 7.20. Janja Garnbret set a big PB with 8.36 being #7 just ahead of Kyra Kondie 8.43. In total, ten of the female Olympians participated.