Lead comments and analysis

The route setters were almost spot on creating an interesting route, although half had a tied score. From a spectator point of view, it was a bit sad that after a rather good start, the performance declined until the very end. The biggest surprise was that Adam Ondra was #4 but it looked more like a technical mistake rather than being pumped out, although he looked a bit tense. Youngsters, Colin Duffy (17) and Alberto Gines Lopez (18) made possibly their best Lead performance ever. Interesting is that Lopez has competed in almost double as many IFSC comps in 2021 compared to all other Olympians and he has actually been beaten by several in Euro Youth Cups earlier in 2021.

Jakob Schubert, the most experienced competition climber in the field, could, just like in the Bouldering event, handle the extreme pressure and win. It should be mentioned that Nathaniel Coleman also made his best Lead route ever, which took him to the Top-8 final.