European Cup Lead & Speed, the best photos and results from Arco, Italy

Tomorrow morning at 9 am the fifth stage of the 2022 Bouldering World Cup kicks off at Bressanone in Italy with the women's qualification, followed at 16:30 with the men's qualification. Everything is set for the big event, and while the athletes are currently taking part in this evening's opening ceremony, there's still time to check out the best photos of the first stages of the European Cup Lead & Speed​​ that took place last weekend at nearby Arco.

The Speed ​​event won by Germany's Franziska Ritter and Yaroslav Tkac from Ukraine, ahead of France's Victoire Andrier and Germany's Sebastian Lucke, while the Italians Giulia Randi and Ludovico Fossali placed third. The Lead event was won by Laura Rogora from Italy and Milan Preskar from Slovenia.

Check out photos taken by Danieli Giovanni and Davide Terenzi, who will also photograph the Bouldering World Cup in Bressanone as of tomorrow.

RESULTS
Lead women
1 Laura Rogora ITA 55
2 Vita Lukan SLO 50
3 Aleksandra Totkova BUL 47
4 Mia Krampl SLO 40
5 Claudia Ghisolfi ITA 34
6 Sabina Van Essen NED 30
7 Tjasa Slemensek SLO 25
8 Michaela Smetanova CZE 22
9 Käthe Atkins GER
10 Savina Nicelli ITA
11 Mattea Pötzi AUT
12 Marketa Janosova CZE
13 Arina Jurcenko CZE
14 Noa Shiran ISR
15 Alessia Mabboni ITA
16 Emma Bernhard GER
17 Lynn Van Der Meer NED
18 Emilia Warenski AUT
19 Thea Cameron GBR
20 Nika Potapova UKR
21 Ilaria Scolaris ITA
22 Julia Fiser AUT
22 Anja Köhler SUI
22 Celine Cuypers BEL
25 Sunniva Øvre-Eide NOR
25 Joanna Neame GBR
27 Valeri Kremer ISR
28 Anne-Sophie Koller SUI
29 Liv Egli SUI
30 Anastasia Kobets UKR
31 Sunniva Eik Haave NOR
31 Lucie Watillon BEL
31 Federica Papetti ITA
31 Ingrid Kindlihagen NOR
35 Tereza Siruckova CZE
36 Kseniia Zakharova UKR
37 Luisa Flohé GER
38 Michelle Hulliger SUI
39 Diana Yarosh UKR
40 Vanessa Kofler ITA
40 Sofia Bellesini ITA
42 Mia Stöver Wollebaek NOR

Lead men
1 Milan Preskar SLO 31
2 Jonas Utelli SUI 30
3 Luka Potocar SLO 29
4 Stefan Scherz AUT 27
5 Giovanni Placci ITA 26
6 Yuval Shemla ISR 25
7 Domen Skofic SLO 22
8 Martin Stranik CZE 22
9 Filip Schenk ITA
10 James Pope GBR
11 Stefano Ghisolfi ITA
12 Yannick Nagel GER
13 Dimitri Flick SUI
14 Hannes Van Duysen BEL
15 Simon Lorenzi BEL
16 Giorgio Tomatis ITA
17 Nicolas Collin BEL
18 Louis Gundolf AUT
19 Jorg Verhoeven NED
20 Piotr Schab POL
21 Toby Roberts GBR
22 Slav Kirov BUL
23 Gergő Vályi HUN
24 Fedir Samoilov UKR
25 Paolo Sterni ITA
26 Simon Potucek CZE
27 Arno Luypaert BEL
28 Illia Bakhmet-Smolenskyi UKR
29 Nicolò Sartirana ITA
30 Alberto Gotta ITA
31 Julian Wimmer AUT
31 Johannes Hofherr AUT
33 Nikolay Rusev BUL
34 Giorgio Bendazzoli ITA
35 Samuel Butterworth GBR
36 Anthony Gullsten FIN
37 Marek Jeliga CZE
38 Dimitri Vogt SUI
39 Daniel Smith GBR
40 Leo Ketil Bøe NOR
41 Emil Abrahamsson SWE
42 Jachym Cink CZE
43 Örjan Rödland Vaage NOR
44 Michael Ullrich GER
45 Rosen Ruev BUL
45 Bence Fuksz HUN
47 Leto Cavé NED
48 Péter Csorba HUN

Speed women
1 Franziska Ritter GER
2 Victoire Andrier FRA
3 Giulia Randi ITA
4 Alina Shchyharieva UKR
5 Beatrice Colli ITA
6 Nuria Brockfeld GER
7 Oksana Burova UKR
8 Julia Koch GER
9 Erica Piscopo ITA
10 Laura Stöckler AUT
11 Sofia Bellesini ITA
12 Francesca Matuella ITA
13 Agnese Fiorio ITA
14 Alice Strocchi ITA
15 Yelyzaveta Lavrykova UKR

Speed men
1 Yaroslav Tkach UKR
2 Sebastian Lucke GER
3 Ludovico Fossali ITA
4 Matteo Zurloni ITA
5 Tobias Plangger AUT
6 Gian Luca Zodda ITA
7 Yann Le Clercq De Lannoy FRA
8 Linus Bader GER
9 Alessandro Boulos ITA
10 Marco Rontini ITA
11 Alessandro Cingari ITA
12 Lukas Knapp AUT
13 Hryhorii Ilchyshyn UKR
14 Kostiantyn Pavlenko UKR
15 Lawrence Bogeschdorfer AUT
16 Leander Carmanns GER
17 Kevin Amon AUT
18 Denys Mozolevych UKR
19 Dorian Zedler GER
20 Daniele Balestrazzi ITA
21 Francesco Govoni ITA