Akiyo Noguchi and Jongwon Chon win Bouldering World Cup 2015

The enormous Olympia Stadium hosted a real showdown since the men’s medals were still up for grabs: young Jongwon Chon of Korea led the provisional ranking, only a few points ahead of Adam Ondra, Jan Hojer, Nathaniel Coleman and Alban Levier. Things were clearer in the women’s field where Akiyo Noguchi had already secured overall victory since she was over 100 points clear of teammate Miho Nonaka and Shauna Coxsey. Furthermore, her greatest rivals were all absent unfortunately: Anna Stöhr and Alex Puccio were out due to injury, and World Champion Juliane Wurm had rather surprisingly announced her partial retirement from competitions just a few weeks previously.

After battling through the Qualifications on Friday, the Semifinals took place on Saturday morning. Much to everyone’s surprise hot favourites Adam Ondra and Miho Nonaka both failed to qualify for the finals, dashing their hopes for overall gold or silver - in the end they both settled for bronze.

All eyes focussed on the duel between Jongwon Chon and home-favourite Jan Hojer, and in the extremely tough men’s final Chon managed to top one problem to finish third and clinch overall gold, while Hojer only managed two bonus zones to finished fifth in Munich and win overall silver. The competition was won by Russia’s Alexey Rubtsov who proved that his 2009 World Championship title was no flash in the pan by producing the competition's only two tops, while Martin Stranik powered his way to place second for the first time in a senior event.

In the women’s final Shauna Coxsey stole the show by flashing all four problems. Thanks to this tremendous display of power she not only secured victory in Munich, but also leapfrogged a place to take silver in the overall ranking. After failing to make headway on the first problem Fanny Gibert subsequently flashed the remaining three problems to finish second, while America’s Megan Mascarenas completed the podium having needed just one attempt more than the Frenchwoman.

IFSC Climbing Worldcup (B) - Munich (GER) 2015
Men
1 Alexey Rubtsov RUS 2t11 4b12
2 Martin Stranik CZE 1t1 3b4
3 Jongwon Chon KOR 1t1 3b5
4 Sergii Topishko UKR 0t 2b2
5 Jan Hojer GER 0t 2b3
6 Rustam Gelmanov RUS 0t 2b6

Women
1 Shauna Coxsey GBR 4t4 4b4
2 Fanny Gibert FRA 3t3 4b7
3 Megan Mascarenas USA 3t4 4b5
4 Akiyo Noguchi JPN 2t3 4b6
5 Stasa Gejo SRB 1t2 3b3
6 Katja Kadic SLO 1t3 3b4

Overall Ranking 2015
Men
1 Jongwon Chon KOR 292.00
2 Jan Hojer GER 264.00
3 Adam Ondra CZE 259.00
4 Nathaniel Coleman USA 238.00
5 Alban Levier FRA 202.00
6 Rustam Gelmanov RUS 179.00
7 Kokoro Fujii JPN 173.00
8 Sean Mccoll CAN 169.00
9 Rei Sugimoto JPN 151.00
10 Jeremy Bonder FRA 146.00
11 Dmitrii Sharafutdinov RUS 145.00
12 Andrzej Mecherzynski-Wiktor POL 125.00
13 Tsukuru Hori JPN 114.00
14 Martin Stranik CZE 103.00
15 Manuel Cornu FRA 100.00
15 Alexey Rubtsov RUS 100.00
17 Michael Piccolruaz ITA 93.00
18 Gholamali Baratzadeh IRI 80.00
19 Guillaume Glairon Mondet FRA 75.00
20 Domen Skofic SLO 68.00
21 Jernej Kruder SLO 66.00
22 Makoto Yamauchi JPN 65.00
23 James Kassay AUS 64.00
24 Minoru Nakano JPN 61.00
25 Jakob Schubert AUT 60.00
26 Mathias Conrad GER 57.00
27 Jason Holowach CAN 55.00
27 Sergii Topishko UKR 55.00
29 Alexander Averdunk GER 43.00
30 Tomoa Narasaki JPN 42.00
31 Jorg Verhoeven NED 41.00
32 Stefan Scarperi ITA 30.00
33 Benjamin Blaser SUI 27.00
33 Shawn Raboutou USA 27.00
35 Peter Dixon USA 26.00
35 Simon Unger GER 26.00
37 Vadim Timonov RUS 23.00
38 MICKAEL Mawem FRA 22.00
38 Yoshiyuki Ogata JPN 22.00
40 Andre Difelice CAN 21.00
41 David Barrans GBR 16.00
41 Alfons Dornauer AUT 16.00
43 Thomas Farrell AUS 15.00
43 Eric Lopez Mateos ESP 15.00
45 Zida Ma CHN 14.00
46 Sin-Fai Ho HKG 12.00
46 Jakub Jodlowski POL 12.00
48 Rolands Rugens LAT 9.00
49 Haibin Qu CHN 8.00
50 Chua Dennis SIN 7.00
50 Nicky De Leeuw NED 7.00
52 Daniel Fisher AUS 5.00
52 Jabee Kim KOR 5.00
52 Alex Khazanov ISR 5.00
52 Baptiste Ometz SUI 5.00
56 Sungjoon Chae KOR 3.00
56 Stefan Danker GER 3.00
56 Andrew Lamb USA 3.00
56 Keita Watabe JPN 3.00
60 Bjørn Arnel Iisager DEN 1.00
60 Kevin Heiniger SUI 1.00
60 Mauricio Huerta MEX 1.00
60 Tyler Landman GBR 1.00
60 Gabriele Moroni ITA 1.00

Overall Ranking 2015
Women
1 Akiyo Noguchi JPN 395.00
2 Shauna Coxsey GBR 332.00
3 Miho Nonaka JPN 276.00
4 Petra Klingler SUI 224.00
5 Megan Mascarenas USA 165.00
6 Katharina Saurwein AUT 163.00
7 Sol Sa KOR 158.00
8 Fanny Gibert FRA 151.00
8 Anna Stöhr AUT 151.00
10 Melissa Le Neve FRA 150.00
11 Julija Kruder SLO 148.00
12 Aya Onoe JPN 116.00
13 Berit Schwaiger AUT 112.00
14 Monika Retschy GER 102.00
15 Yuka Kobayashi JPN 76.00
16 Juliane Wurm GER 72.00
17 Margo Hayes USA 65.00
18 Leah Crane GBR 64.00
19 Charlotte Durif FRA 63.00
20 Chloé Caulier BEL 60.00
21 Karoline Sinnhuber AUT 56.00
22 Alex Puccio USA 55.00
23 Vera Zijlstra NED 52.00
24 Stasa Gejo SRB 51.00
25 Stacey Weldon CAN 50.00
26 Angela Payne USA 49.00
27 Katja Kadic SLO 47.00
28 Alex Johnson USA 46.00
29 Aika Tajima JPN 43.00
30 Sierra Blair-Coyle USA 42.00
30 Minseon Kim KOR 42.00
32 Hannah Midtboe NOR 40.00
33 di Niu CHN 38.00
34 Rong Jiang CHN 36.00
35 Katarzyna Ekwinska POL 33.00
35 Mélanie Sandoz FRA 33.00
37 Miwa Oba JPN 28.00
38 Valeri Kremer ISR 24.00
38 Elsa Ponzo FRA 24.00
40 Kaori Hosono JPN 23.00
41 Jara Späte SUI 22.00
42 Tamara Kuznetsova KAZ 21.00
43 Tara Hayes GBR 20.00
44 Johanna Holfeld GER 18.00
45 Claire Buhrfeind USA 14.00
45 Natalie Bärtschi SUI 14.00
47 Meagan Martin USA 12.00
47 Lamu Renqing CHN 12.00
49 Seunghyun Kim KOR 11.00
50 Puntarika Tunyavanich THA 10.00
51 Ekaterina Andreeva RUS 9.00
51 Tina Johnsen Hafsaas NOR 9.00
53 Lisa Chulich USA 7.00
53 Francesca Metcalf USA 7.00
53 Franziska Sterrer AUT 7.00
56 Kyra Condie USA 5.00
56 Claire Langmore AUS 5.00
58 Zhuoma Pubu CHN 4.00
58 Judith Mingxin Sim SIN 4.00
60 Petra Ruzickova CZE 3.00
61 Goh Hui Chen Janet SIN 2.00
62 Sofia Heinze Cacho MEX 1.00
62 Grace Mckeehan USA 1.00
62 Thomasina Pidgeon CAN 1.00
62 Julia Pinggera AUT 1.00