14 March 2021

Roadkill 8C by Kim Marschner

Kim Marschner has done his fourth 8C, Roadkill in Valle Bavona. He just needed five sessions and actually, all his hardest ascents including his 9a, he has done rather quickly. The 23-year-old German has been focusing on comps since 2015 but only once made it a semi in the World Cup. In the first German selection comp 2021, the 167 cm tall won. (c) Vladek Zumr

"I guess on rocks my size doesn’t affect me that much. I‘m pretty small and at the comps, this is sometimes a disadvantage. On rocks, I just don’t climb the morpho boulders. But I feel like this season I‘m also pretty strong on comp boulders so let’s see how the season goes."

How much and how have you been training during Covid-19? What is next?
A lot. Nearly every day and two sessions a day two times a week. I‘m in the national team and my parents own two bouldering gyms so I can train whenever I want to.

What is next you seem to be in great shape? Next is the second selection comp in two weeks and then back to Ticino I think. Or maybe if we can open our gym I have to work. Don‘t know yet. Maybe not stronger than last year on rocks but in the gym for sure stronger.
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