China Bouldering and Difficulty results
Jérôme Meyer and Sandrine Levet win the Bouldering event in Huzou, while Tomás Mrázek and Angela Eiter win the Difficulty event in Shanghai. Levet and Daniel Dulac win the 2004 Bouldering World Cup
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| Better late than never, the results of the World Cup in China: Jérôme Meyer and Sandrine Levet won the Bouldering event in Huzou on 3 October, while Tomás Mrázek and Angela Eiter won the Difficulty event in Shanghai a week later. Bouldering The final stage of the Women's Bouldering World Cup 2004 was won, unsurprisingly, by Sandrine Levet. The Frenchwoman crowned off an impressive year, with 5 straight victories, and only one second place, in front of the home crowd at Argentiere. This complete domination left little space for title contenders, and Olga Bibik had to contend with third place in China, and second place overall in the final WC ranking. Thankfully for her she won the coveted European Championship in Lecco in June, but we're sure that she had hoped to be more in the running. Ioulia Abramtchouk is the surprise, or rather, confirmation, of this season, as she placed second in China and third overall. But this trio will have train diligently for 2005, as a number of fresh new faces have begun to make a name for themselves: Anna Stöhr from Austria, Mélanie Son and Juliette Danion from France are just a few to watch out for next year. Jerome Meyer finally got into the swing of things in China, right at the last moment. After a difficult year, the Frenchman finished the season in the best way possible, beating ever-present Salavat Rakhmetov and globetrotter Tomasz Olesky. Ludovic Laurence showed why he is feared by placing fourth, beating two-times WC stages winner Kilian Fischhuber into fifth place. Daniel Dulac placed seventh, but this did nothing to stop the "master climber" and mountain guide from winning his first ever WC title. His road to overall victory was convincingly steady: two 1st places, one 2nd, one 3rd, one 7th and one 11th. Add to this his European Champion title, and you get an unbeatable, and nigh-on unrepeatable year! Kilian Fischhuber from Austria placed second overall, ahead of Dulac's teammate Jerome Meyer. Difficulty Tomás Mrázek and Angela Eiter won the 5th stage of the World Cup 2004, ahead of Maxim Petrenko and Patxi Usobiaga, second and third respectively, and Caroline Ciavaldini and Muriel Sarkany (joint second) and Bettina Schöpf. After victory in Marbella, Mrázek continues to extend his lead, especially since Chabot's "terrible" 19th place results in a 169 point gap. Chabot's China experience means that he now has to watch out for the likes of Pouvreau, 5th in Shanghai and trailing by just 28 points. But there are still four more stages left and these two protagonists have taught us in the past that nothing is impossible. The women's field is much more evenly matched, with Sarkany and Eiter exchanging turns on the podium. The Belgian's lead is currently 62 points, and they'll fight hard... not to make any mistakes. Young Caroline Ciavaldini from France seems to be emerging strongly and will definitely be someone to watch out for, as is the European Champion Bettina Schöpf and Slovenian Natalija Gros, 5th in Shanghai. The next stage of the World Cup will be held in Aprica, Italy on 22 October. Bouldering results men - Huzou 1 Meyer Jérôme FRA 2 Rakhmetov Salavat RUS 3 Oleksy Tomasz POL 4 Laurence Ludovic FRA 5 Fischhuber Kilian AUT 6 Benk Christian GER 7 Dulac Daniel FRA 8 Kazbekov Serik UKR 9 Parry Gareth GBR 10 Matsushima Akito JPN 11 Julien Stephane FRA 12 Müller Matthias SUI 13 Jongeneelen Wouter NED 14 Kim Jang Hyuk KOR 15 Gaidioz Loïc FRA 16 Croxall Mark GBR 17 Mogaki Keita JPN 18 Lai Chi-Wai HKG 19 Watanabe Kasuma JPN 20 Chu Ka-Wai HKG Bouldering results women - Huzou 1 Levet Sandrine FRA 2 Abramtchouk Ioulia RUS 3 Bibik Olga RUS 4 Stöhr Anna AUT 5 Son Mélanie FRA 6 Lavarda Jenny ITA 7 Perlova Natalia UKR 8 Danion Juliette FRA 9 Bacher Barbara AUT 10 Ogawa Tomoko JPN 11 Berry Samantha AUS 12 Huang Li-Ping CHN 13 Martin Sancho Berta ESP 14 Togawa Yukiko JPN 15 Liu Gui-Ying CHN 16 He Cuifang CHN 17 Wong Ming-o HKG 18 Tan Li Ying, Suzanna SIN 19 Tai Chika JPN 20 Li Chun-Hua CHN Difficulty results men - Shanghai 1 Mrázek Tomás CZE 2 Petrenko Maxim UKR 3 Usobiaga Patxi ESP 4 Millet Sylvain FRA 5 Pouvreau Gérome FRA 6 Crespi Flavio ITA 7 Becan Klemen SLO 8 Puigblanque Ramón Julián ESP 9 Auclair François FRA 10 Fischhuber Kilian AUT 11 Verhoeven Jorg NED 12 Vinokur Vadim USA 12 Zardini Luca ITA 14 Fuselier Mickael FRA 15 Oleksy Tomasz POL 16 Bindhammer Andreas GER 17 Kazbekov Serik UKR 18 Son Sang-Won KOR 19 Chabot Alexandre FRA 20 Ozawa Shinta JPN Difficulty results women - Shanghai 1 Eiter Angela AUT 2 Ciavaldini Caroline FRA 3 Sarkany Muriel BEL 4 Schöpf Bettina AUT 5 Kobayashi Yuka JPN 6 Gros Natalija SLO 7 Kim Ja-In KOR 8 Lavarda Jenny ITA 9 Eyer Alexandra SUI 10 Stöhr Anna AUT 11 Shalahina Olha UKR 12 Go Mi-Sun KOR 13 Martin Delphine FRA 14 Bacher Barbara AUT 15 Huang Li-Ping CHN 16 Li Chun-Hua CHN 17 Madate Tomoko JPN 18 Kysilkova Tereza CZE 19 Raffetseder Gerda AUT 20 Saurwein Katharina AUT |
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