Provisional WC Calendar 2019

IFSC has published the provisional Calendar for 2019 including 6 events in all three disciplines. 05/04 Meiringen SUI Boulder 13/04 Moscow RUS Boulder/Speed 27/04 Chonqing CHN Boulder/Speed 04/05 Wujinang CHN Boulder/Speed 18/05 Munich GER Boulder 07/06 Vail USA Boulder 05/07 Villars FRA Lead/Speed 11/07 Chamonix FRA Lead/Speed 19/07 Briancon FRA Lead 20/08 Tokyo JPN Combined World Championship 28/09 Kranj SLO Lead 19/10 Xiamen CHN Lead/Speed 26/10 Inzai JPN Lead 28/11 Toulouse FRA Olympic Qualification As the most important event for the ones going for Tokyo 2020 are the world Championship and the Olympic qualification event, most probably, most will cherry pick which comps to focus at. It is not wise to travel around the globe almost non-stop for seven months without resting prior to the qualification in Toulouse. From a logistic and cost point of view; skipping Vail, Xiamen and Inzai will make everything much easier at least for the Europeans. For the non-Europeans avoiding Kranj and Munich will make life easier. On the other hand, as many of the best probably will not do all WCs, it is a golden opportunity to focus on the World Cup in one discipline giving low priority for the Olympics. The twist is also that the Top-7 in the World Championship in Tokyo in August will qualify for the 2020. Most probably, these qualifiers will limit their competing during the autumn opening up for better results for the lower ranked.