Great semi finals where Alex Megos did get the highest among the male ahead of Tomoa Narasaki. Interesting to see that most of the male just used some 3 minutes and fastest of them all was Sean McColl ahead of Adam Ondra. Japan got four male Top-14. Among the female, nice to see Anak Verhoeven was back in good shape after a long injury but she was timed out that put her out of the final. Interesting to see that Slovenia, with 2 million inhabitants, got three in Top-4 and five Top-12 with Janja Garnbret winning the semi. Japan had four girls Top-14 with Miho Nonaka skipping the semi due to her shoulder injury. Complete results

Here is the Combined ranking prior to the Speed event. It should be mentioned that among the Top-12 female ranking, all but three are from Japan or Slovenia. Among the male, there are five from Japan. In total there are 72 female and 84 male doing the three disciplines. The complete Combined ranking can be found in the Hachioji App. The Speed specialist with the best possibilities to get Top-20 are Anouck Jaubert currently #41 with 1 500 points and Bassa Mawem #53 with 2 800 points. Last year you made it to the Top-20 with 7 770 respectively 11 880 points. As it stands, most probably 2 or 3 female and 1 male will make it to the Top-20. That would also in reality mean that there will be at least one male and one female Speed specialists getting the Olympic ticket. The Top-7 will get an Olympic ticket but as there is a country max quota of two, beside Japan max one, it could be that Top-12 is good enough for the female and Top-10 for the male. 1. Janja Garnbret 1 - Tomoa Narasaki 4 2. Akiyo Noguchi 10 - Adam Ondra 6 3. Mia Krampl 33 - Jakob Schubert 6 4. Shauna Coxey 43.5 - Alex Megos 41 5. Ievgeniia Kazbekova 52 - Kokoro Fujii 52 6. Chaehyon Seo 52 - Kai Harada 56 7. Futaba Ito 82.5 - Sean McColl 65 8. Ai Mori 82.5 - Yannick Flohe 99 9. Miho Nonaka 105 - Rudolph Ruana 105 10. Lucka Rakovec 108 - Keita Dohe 120 11. Vita Lukan 137 - Meichi Narasaki 144 12. Nanako Kura 168 - Jernej Kruder 207

Audrey Sniezek, who the last five years has not done any routes harder than 8a+, is back in the game with The Sickness 8b+ in Little Si. "An exciting line with incredible moves. Why someone would go out right to the jug, is beyond me. Stay true to the line and fight the pump to the chains. Thanks go out to luke stefurak for fixing a better rope line for the start."

Janja Garnbret, who two days ago become the Boulder World Champion, was once again ahead of the others but it was not until she understood that her friend Mia Krampl got the silver the tension let go and she started to celebrate. Then the commentators started to talk about her amazing competition stats for the 20 year old and having totally dominated the scene for four years. During several minutes they continued to give her credit in every possible with comments like, "there is no limit what she can do but we have to remember that she is still human..." (c) (c) Vladek Zumr This is the fourth time Janja has won a Lead WCH, although being just 20 years old. 1. Janja Garnbret SLO 2. Mia Krampl SLO 3. Ai Mori (15) JPN 4. Chaehyon Seo (15) KOR 5. Akiyo Noguchi JPN 6. Jessica Pilz AUT 7. Vita Lukan SLO 8. Julia Chanourdie FRA Complete results

"I feel lucky that I win", Adam Ondra taking about Alex Megos mistake midways up the very hard route. Adam further more said he was very tired after the Bouder final and could not understand how he could grab the last hold which eventually made him win. Adam has now got a medal in seventh consecutive Lead WCH, out of which three golds. (c) Vladek Zumr 1. Adam Ondra CZE 2. Alex Megos GER 3. Jakob Schubert AUT 4. Tomoa Narasaki JPN 5. Sean McColl CAN 6. Stefano Ghisolfi ITA 7. Kai Harada JPN 8. Hannes Puman SWE Complete results

Jakob Schubert got the silver in the World Championship by, in total during the semi and the final, doing one boulder. We can rest assure that IOC will put IFSC to the wall wanting a guarantee avoiding such anticlimax during the Olympics. Possibly solutions, that have been pointed out previously here, is to give instructions to the route setters to aim for some 12 tops even if this might turn out that number of attempts will be used for separating the podium. Further more, with two zones, the route setters will have to do less long coordination/jumping sequences and instead be forced to do more straight forward pulling moves increasingly more difficult. From the athletes perspective these coordination/jumping moves will badly affect all finalist during the Lead qually tomorrow as they will have really bad skin that in some cases need tape. One more thing, on the bottom left of the picture, you can see that the judges have the updated results on their screen. How come is this not transferred to the live-streaming? With out any digital results on the screen it is very hard to follow the updated ranking and what is needed to advance to the podium etc. It should be mentioned that although the female final did get more tops, it had more or less the same problem making it clear that something has do be done.

Jorge Diaz-Rullo has done his third 9a+ during the last month, No pain no gain in Rodellar. The 19 year old needed 13 tries over six days to take down the classical Dani Fuerte's route. (c) Javi Pec "One of the best routes I have done! An authentic route I will never forget. More than ever thanks to everyone for the encouragement!" Including also a 9b he did two weeks ago, Jorge is #2 in the 8a ranking game.

The male boulder final turned out way too hard with Jakob Schubert getting the silver by only getting three zones. Tomoa Narasaki somewhat saved the show by getting two tops but was not even close on the remaining two. Third was Yannick Flohe, in reality being the closest to get a top beside Narasak, although suffering from bleeding fingers. Adam Ondra, who won the semi, was not even close to get one zone on the tricky and almost only coordination and jumping challenging boulders. Complete results (c) Vladek Zumr