Julia Chanourdie, #11 in the last year's Lead World Cup, reports on Facebook, "Last saturday I toped my first 8c+ "L'Avaro" in Tetto di Sarre in Italy. It's a first female ascent. Video coming soon!" Tetto di Sarre is probably one of the most chipped crags in the world and in fact it is located in a quarry.

1. Shauna Coxsey 437 - Tomoa Narasaki 298 2. Miho Nonaka 319 - Kokoro Fujii 289 3. Melissa Le Neve 298 - Alexey Rubtsov 262 4. Akiyo Noguchi 259 - Jongwon Chon 238 5. Monika Retschy 200 - Rustam Gelmanov 219 Complete results

The semi live streaming starts at 13 but it will take place without Jan Hojer, Rustam Gelmanov, Jakob Schubert and some other higher-ranked climbers, as Verhoeven and Hori. Among the female, there are no big sensations.

Excellent routesetting and a brilliant show where seven female topped out all four Boulders. There were also two male to achieve it, Sean McColl and Jongwon Chon.

Great show took place in Innsbruck, where we could see Shauna Coxsey winning her fourth World Cup in 2016, meanwhile the overall winner from last year, Jongwon Chon, got his first victory. Giving credit to the route setters, it should be mentioned that all 36 problems throughout the event were topped out. The Swedish national coach, Reino Horak, says that he has never been on a better organized and more exciting climbing competition where the DJ created the perfect background. - When Chongwon matched on the micro hold where other could not even hold with it one hand, the audience got crazy :) With just two events left, Shauna will become the overall champion if she makes it to the podium in one of them even if Miho Nonaka wins the last two. Among the male, at least six have chances for the overall title and in theory, actually 15 still have the possibility. Results are presented below with semi results in brackets. 1. Jongwon Chon (2) - Shauna Coxsey (6) 2. Tomoa Narasaki (5) - Janja Garnbret (5) 3. Sean McColl (1) - Miho Nonaka (2) 4. Roland Rugens (6) - Megan Mescarenas (3) 5. Dimitrii Sharafitdinov (3) - Anna Stöhr (6) 6. Martin Stranik (4)- Akiyo Noguchi (1) 7. Sol Sa (3) Complete results (c) Eddie Fowke

1. Kokoro Fujii:7 255 - Shauna Coxsey:2 337 2. Alexey Rubtsov:15 242 - Melissa Le Neve:10 258 3. Tomoa Narasaki:30 218 - Miho Nonaka:3 254 4. Rustam Gelmanov:6 216 - Akiyo Noguchi:1 212 5. Jan Hojer:2 168 - Monika Retschy:14 172 6. Jeremy Bonder:10 162 - Fanny Gibert:8 171 Complete results Last year results: 2015. Interesting is that many of the highest-ranked male actually were pretty low-ranked in 2015. Furthermore, only two of the Top-8 male are from Western Europe. For the female it is seven out of the Top-9.

A record number of 191 participants from 34 countries will compete in Innsbruck for the fifth Bouldering World Cup 2016. This can be compared with 151 two years ago. Live streaming will start on Saturday at 13.00 with the semifinal and 20.00 for the final.

During the Bouldering World Championship in 2007, Daniel Dulac won the semifinal by flashing all four problems but in the final he did not do a single Boulder even if each of the other five finalists did three problems on average. Daniel said that it was extremely frustrating to hear the spectators praise his opponents for topping 13 out of the first 15 Boulders and then try to equal their performance after his bad start on problem 1. The comparison of average semi ranking with final results from the last 142 Boulder World Cups and World Championships, suggests that there is no correlation for the Top-4. (Separate average results for World Championships in brackets). 1=3.1 (4.0): The 10 World Champs have on average qualified as #4 from semi 2=3.2 (3.9) 3=3.3 (2.5) 4=3.3 (3.2) 5=3.9 (3.6) 6=4.2 (3.8) It is somehow strange that the Top-4 in the final had more or less the same average results in the semifinal. This might be best explained that starting last is a disadvantage in the form of pressure. The more experienced the climber is, the higher probability of winning they have, which confirms the statement above. The first time you start last, you almost never win but if you go on competing, the probability will increase. However, many have won for the first time having started at the beginning. Furthermore, in the world championshps, the correlation between semi and final results is negative, which means that the #1 & #2 in the final usually have the worst result in the semifinal. Other possible explanation of the phenomenon could be the friction, which gets worse after five climbers have tried it for some 20 minutes. Moreover, as spectators normally scream more the first time somebody makes it to the bonus or gets close to the top, the last person out will probably get less cheering when achieving the same as their predecessors. Finally, the last person out will not probably have as efficient resting time as the early starters. (This is kind of hard to explain but if all first 6 competitors struggle with a 4+ minutes problem followed by a problem that goes quicker, the resting is shorter for the last one out. On the other hand, a less time-consuming problem followed by a 4+ problem will mean longer rest for the last one out but a long rest is less important if you do the last problem rather quickly).

The makers of Zlagboard are giving 1,500€ to the one who breaks the standing hangtime world-record. Those who think that this is an easy catch should warm up their body, especially fingers and hang on, literally! Even the record holder Ramon himself was not able to repeat his own record on a second attempt, tough. 2:44.34 - not more, nor less! What is this „hanging“ all about? The makers of Zlagboard have started with the hangtime contests in 2014 and it turned out to be pretty successful. All the competitors hold on the same 2 cm grips with just the tips of their fingers. In front of their tense facies the world-ranking appears and their own hangtime hops higher and higher while they are gripping. This is possible thanks to the smartphone-based application which is connected to the board. The next Zlagboard contests where you can win Euro 1 500 are; Dolorock Climbing Festival in Landro Valley, the Austrian Climbing Festival in Zillertal or the Gramitico in Val Daone.