22 May 2023

Tomoa Narasaki wins his sixth Boulder World Cup

Soratu Anraku (16), the Lead Youth World Champion the last two years, won the semifinal in the Salt Lake City Boulder World Cup and topped all four boulders in the final. Tomoa Narasaki won the qualification and was runner up in the semi. In the final, Tomoa flashed the first boulder and in the end, he only needed six attempts for the four boulders. Toby Roberts got his first podium after being third and fourth in the previous rounds. Complete results

Overall, the route setters were spot on with the difficulty of the boulders with more tops than usual, although nobody topped all 13 boulders. Mejdi Schalck, who won both the two first rounds in Asia, did not participate in SLC.
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