3 April 2022

Meiringen Boulder WC starts on friday

The World Cup season starts once again with the Bouldering event in Meiringen in Switzerland. The qualification starts on Friday 8/4 followed by the semi and final on the weekend. From the starting list, we can see that there will be 17 competitors from Switzerland, 16 from Japan, 13 from Slovenia and 10 from France, Great Britain, Germany and Israel. There are also four competitors from Ukraine that will participate and as previously mentioned, Russians are not allowed to take part.

In practice, each country is limited to fielding five males and five females but extra spots are given based on the results from last year, and the host country is allocated extra spots. The big names not taking part are Adam Ondra, Jan Hojer and Shauna Coxsey (pregnant) and Akiyo Noguchi who stopped competing after the Olympic Games.

Friday, 8 April:
9:00 AM Women's Boulder qualification
4:30 PM Men's Boulder qualification

Saturday, 9 April:
11:00 AM Women's Boulder semi-final
6:00 PM Women's Boulder final

Sunday, 10 April:
11:00 AM Men's Boulder semi-final
4:00 PM Men's Boulder final
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