Shauna Coxsey saves the show

Shauna Coxsey, who won the Boulder WC last year, did all four boulders in a superior way. Besides that, we only saw nine successful attempts and contrary to the qualification and semi, the route setters miscalculated the difficulty. In fact, male winner Kokoro Fujii did just one boulder. The commentators mentioned that probably high temperatures in the arena created bad conditions for the athletes. The new max 4 min rule could also possibly explain the few tops. Overall, it also had a negative impact when it comes to excitement. It was great free live-streaming besides the fact that the commentators several times could not analyze the running results and sometimes they even miss-lead the viewers. (c) Eddie Fowke - The Circuit Climbing who has a gallery well worth checking out. 1. Shauna Coxsey 4t10 4b8 - Kokoro Fujii 1T1 3b6 2. Katharina Saurwein 2T6 3b13 - Alexey Rubtsov 1T2 2b8 3. Miho Nonaka 1T2 3b6 - Keita Watabe 1T3 2b12 Complete results What's interesting is that there were three Japanese in the Top-4 among the male and in the Top-21, seven were from Japan.