Ogata wins big drama

Yoshiyuki Ogata was the only one to top the first boulder by some spectacular campus moves. On the second boulder, Simon Lorenzi set some kind of record. First, he failed the initial double dyno, nine times and then with 13 seconds left he tried it again and made it. Looking over his shoulder, he saw that there were just a few second left and grabbed the zone and immediately made the double dyno to the top and stuck it. The last boulder was basically just a traverse with no handholds before a dyno to the zone followed by another dyno to the top.

Ogata could secure the gold by topping and was very close to get the zone. Then Tomoa had the chance to win and made the zone but could not stick the dyno to the last hold. Last out was Kokoro Fujii, who had not made any zone, making the first top of the boulder easily on his second try, ǵetting the bronze, based on countback to the semi.

1. Yoshiyuki Ogata JPN 22 (c) Vladek Zumr
2. Tomoa Narasaki JPN 13
3. Kokoro Fujii JPN 11 (2+2)
4. Nicolai Uznik 11 (2+2)
5. Simon Lorenzi 11 (10)
6. Nathaniel Coleman USA 1

It should be mentioned that they only climbed three boulders in the final as it was delayed an hour due to heavy rain. The organisation worked very hard to make this possible and once again Innsbruck delivered a great competition week.