4 September 2017

Russia dominates Youth A Speed

The Youth A Speed World Champions 2017 are Aleksandra Kalucka Polen and Sergey Rukin Russia. In total, Russia got one of each medal and also a #3 result. Complete results and Video Highlights Interesting to see the great progress since the Youth World Championships 2016. In order to qualify to Top-16 you had to do 11.96 respectively 8.53. This year 10.66 respectively 7.82 were needed. The best Combined female result after two disciplines is Luiza Emeleva from Russia #2 in Boulder and #13 in Speed. Among the boys Philip Shenk from Russia won the Boulder and was #43 in Speed and Keita Dohi from Japan #2 in Boulder and #26 in Speed. The Top-20 qualifies for the last Combined event on Sunday where Top-13 qualifies to Youth Olympics in Argentina 2017.
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