3 September 2018
WCH Innsbruck Combined Speculation
The World Championship in Innsbruck will be the first big test prior to the Olympics in Tokyo 2020. The good news is that almost all the top names will try out Combined*. First they compete as normal in the three disciplines and based on the overall multiplicative ranking, the Top-6 will move to the final and do all three disciplines again. Here is a speculative ranking. Who is missing and who should be higher up?
1. Tomoa Narasaki - Janja Garnbret
2. Jakob Schubert - Miho Nonaka
3. Adam Ondra - Akiyo Noguchi
4. Jongwon Chon - Claire Buhrfeind
5. Alex Megos - Jessica Pilz
6. Yushiyuki Ogata - Jain Kim
Contenders:
Kokoro Fujii - Stasa Geio
Jan Hojer - Brooke Raboutou
Mickel Mawem - Ashima Shiraishi
Manuel Cornu - Alex Puccio
Bassa Mawem - Petra Klingler
Jernej Kruder - Manon Hily
Domen Skofic - Sandra Lettner
Meichi Narasaki - Laura Stรถckler
Kai Harada - Anna Tsyganova*
Aleksei Rubtsov - Margo Hayes
William Bosi - Vita Lukan
Rei Sugimoto - Mei Kotake
Yannick Flohe - Ekatarina Kipriianova
Sean McColl - Sol Sa
The only big stars that will not do the Combined is Stefano Ghisolfi, Romain Desgranges, Anak Verhoeven and Fanny Gibert.
*Anna is a Speed specialist who has been #2 in a Speed WC in 2018 at the same time she has been #23 in Lead and #29 in Boulder. Her Combined results, among the ones doing all three disciplines, in Innsbruck could be 1 * 20 *30 = 600, which probably would get her in Top-6.
If she makes the final, she would probably get 1 * 6 * 6 = 36 which beats 3 * 4 * 4 = 48. As a matter of a fact 36 points could actually be enough for getting a medal, but first she has to make it to the Top-6 final which is less likely.
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Outdoor bouldering isโฆ
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