Nikolai Iariovets 2nd best overall Combined Climber

The Combined calculation format does not favor the best overall but instead the ones winning at least one discipline. An overall good climber being 7 - 8 - 8, scores 448 at the same time another one scoring 1 - 20 - 20, gets 400. If the sum would have been used the overall good climber would have gotten a much better score at 23 compared to 40, for the very uneven climber. Nikolai Iarilovets, scoring #16 in Lead, #13 in Bouldering and #6 in Speed (6.26) was one of the best scoring on a high level in each discipline 2019. With another set of rules, he would have had chances to get a medal, now he will most likely not make it to Tokyo. The best overall climber, measured my the sum of all three disciplines was Tomoa Narasaki 1 - 3 - 26. In comparison, Rishat Khaibullin #3 in Hachioji and qualified to Tokyo, who is the high performer Speed climber who also is relatively good in Lead and Boulder, did score 13 - 41 - 42.