Melina Costanza ticks Iron Resolution (8B)

Melina Costanza has done Iron Resolution (8B) in Barker Dam. ”I know some people have been calling it 12 [8A+] recently but it honestly felt harder than any other 13 I’ve done so I’m taking it. But maybe that’s just cause I’m a shorty so I have to dyno to the crimp.”

In September, the 26-year-old won bronze at the World Championship, marking her first IFSC Boulder competition since 2022, when her best finish was 21st. Last year, she also did her second 8B+ and she is number four in the female ranking game.

Can you tell us more about the ascent?
I went out to Joshua tree to compete in the rock rumble royale competition and stuck around a couple days afterward to get on this classic line. I ended up having to jump for a crimp pretty high up and took a couple gnarly falls from up high before the send go. One of the coolest boulders I’ve done