Ondra comments his victory in Lead

“To be honest, I did not expect to win tonight. After a very exhausting program of bouldering and lead climbing right after, I felt pretty tired and it was quite hard to believe in myself. It was especially hard during qualification, it was a bit better in the semi-finals, and then in the finals, I was reconciled to the fact that I had to put everything into it,” says Ondra right after the competition. Despite the excellent form of Ondra’s two main competitors, Jakob Schubert and Alexander Megos, Ondra made almost no mistakes, and in the end, it was one hold that decided about his World Champion title. “I made a few mistakes today, but my competitors made more. I was very lucky in that final step because I was able to do one step more than Alexander Megos and Jakob Schubert and thanks to that, I became the World Champion,” commented Ondra enthusiastically his final steps. (c) Lukas Biba