European Youth Championships: Stefano Carnati wins gold, Eva Scroccaro silver

Italy's youth sport climbing movement is undoubtedly a positive reality. This is the outcome of the European Youth Championships that took place in Imst from July 26 to 28. Three days of competitions and two disciplines, Speed and Lead, and almost 300 athletes competing in Austria's excellent Imst Kletterzentrum.

Friday was dedicated to Speed and this was dominated, unsurprisingly, by Russia who left just medal to another country, France in the Female Junior category. In the Lead discipline things were more even: Austria won two gold medals thanks to Jessica Pilz (Female youth A) and Magdalena Röck (Female juniors); Slovenia won Female youth B thanks to Jania Garnbret who in doing so doubled her takings after winning the Bouldering Championships in May 2013; Sweden's Hannes Puman won gold in his Male youth A category while Russia, thanks to a spectacular climb by Dmitry Fakiryanov, now has the Male juniors European Champion title. Italy is the fifth country to win the European Champion Male youth B title thanks to Stefano Carnati.

The general trend of the competition highlighted Italy's excellent performance. Four athletes qualified for the Finals, three girls and a boy.

The main aim now is the World Youth Championship in August in Canada and, in the long term, the World Youth Championship in Arco in 2015.

Leonardo di Marino, Team Coach

Female youth A speed
1 Anastasiia Klochkova RUS
2 Elena Markusheva RUS
3 Patrycja Chudziak POL
4 Alexandra Elmer AUT

Female youth B speed
1 Anastasia Manuylova RUS
2 Oleksandra Volkova UKR
3 Daria Kan RUS
4 Evelyne Fux SUI

Female juniors speed
1 Anouck Jaubert FRA
2 Aleksandra Rudzinska POL
3 Varvara Shatalova RUS
4 Nina Lach AUT

Female youth A lead
1 Jessica Pilz AUT
2 Anak Verhoeven BEL
3 Hannah Schubert AUT
4 Julia Chanourdie FRA
5 Ievgeniia Kazbekova UKR
6 Andrea Kümin SUI
7 Dana Gilemkhanova RUS
8 Claudia Ghisolfi ITA
9 Salomé Romain FRA
10 Anne-Sophie Koller SUI

Female youth B lead
1 Janja Garnbret SLO
2 Eva Scroccaro ITA
3 Juliia Panteleeva RUS
4 Michelle Hulliger SUI
5 Laura Stöckler AUT
6 Lisa De Martini ITA
7 Sophie Rauberger GER
8 Franziska Sterrer AUT
9 Tjasa Slemensek SLO
10 Celine Cuypers BEL

Female juniors lead
1 Magdalena Röck AUT
2 Katharina Posch AUT
3 Tina Johnsen Hafsaas NOR
4 Manon HILY FRA
5 Jera LENARDIC SLO
6 Netta Fredman ISR
7 Anastasiya Samoylina RUS
8 Kenza Slamti FRA
9 Katrin Amann SWE
10 Yulia Zaytseva RUS


Male youth A speed
1 Aleksandr Shikov RUS
2 Maksim Diachkov RUS
3 Gian-Luca Grichting SUI
4 Alessandro Santoni ITA

Male youth B speed
1 Lev Rudatskiy RUS
2 Kostiantyn Dmitriiev UKR
3 Mykyta Lukianov UKR
4 Oleksandr Meleshko UKR

Male juniors speed
1 Artem Savelyev RUS
2 Yegor Kondratiuk UKR
3 Vladislav Deulin RUS
4 Maxim Shcherbakov RUS

Male youth A lead
1 Hannes Puman SWE
2 Martin Bergant SLO
3 Bernhard Röck AUT
4 Sergei Bydtaev RUS
5 Georg Parma AUT
6 Sergey Skorodumov RUS
7 Nicolas PELORSON FRA
8 Ruben Firnenburg GER
9 Jakob Heber Norum NOR
10 Adrian Chmiala POL

Male youth B lead
1 Stefano Carnati ITA
2 Sascha Lehmann SUI
3 Anton Sviridov RUS
4 Hugo PARMENTIER FRA
5 Nicolas COLLIN BEL
6 Jan-Luca Posch AUT
7 William Bosi GBR
8 Yuval Shemla ISR
9 James Pope GBR
10 Florian Klingler AUT

Male juniors lead
1 Dmitry Fakiryanov RUS
2 Domen Skofic SLO
3 Yiftach Kushnir ISR
4 Loïc Timmermans BEL
5 Christoph Hanke GER
6 Andrey Shagin RUS
7 Ghislain PIPERS FRA
8 Thomas JOANNES FRA
9 David Firnenburg GER
10 Michael Bräuer AUT