European Youth Climbing Championship: Giorgio Bendazzoli wins the Lead

Giorgio Bendazzoli from Bassano del Grappa won the Youth B (Under 16) category, beating
Austria's Mathias Posch and France's Léo Ferrera. This is Bendazzoli's first big international success. Asja Gollo from Turin won the women's silver, slipping into second behind Slovenia's Janja Garnbret and ahead of her teammate Tjasa Slemensek. Gollo's success comes after having placed third in the European Lead Cup and won last year's European Bouldering Cup.

The other medals came from the Speed discipline: Alessandro Santoni, in the Juniors (Under 20), was beaten only by France's Quentin Nambot, but his silver (ahead of Sergei Luzhetskii from Russia) confirms he's one of the absolute best (last year the athlete from Trentino was crowned World champion in this discipline). Paolo Martignene won silver, too, in the Youth B category (beaten in the final by Russia's Denis Diachkov) represents the first major achievement at international level and is the culmination of his involvement with the Italian squad. Martignene beat his teammate Gian Luca Zodda. In the women's event, bronze went to Giulia Fossali, who was beaten by the two Russians Ekaterina Lugovenko and Anastasia Manuylova.

These six Italian medals are joined by another seven other top ten results, confirming that the Italian Youth squad is comprised of a large group of young athletes capable of leaving their mark in international competitions.

Italian results:
Men:
Youth B Lead: 1 Giorgio BendazzolI.
Youth A Lead: 12 Stefano Carnati, 16 Leonardo Sinibaldi.
Juniors Lead: 8 Federico Andreoli, 14 Lorenzo Carasio
Youth B Speed: 2 Paolo Martignene, 3 Gian Luca Zodda, 6 Giacomo Ingrani
Youth A Speed: 3 Ludovico Fossali
Juniors Speed: 2 Alessandro Santoni, 5 Stanislao Zama

Women:
Youth B Lead: 2 Asja Gollo,
Youth A Lead: 8 Lisa De Martini, 11 Eva Scroccaro, 16 Ilaria Scolaris, 22 Giulia Gollo
Juniors Lead: 9 Claudia Ghisolfi
Youth B Speed: 3 Giulia Fossali, 8 Silvia Porta
Youth A Speed: 9 Giorgia Randi, 16 Erika Mattioli
Juniors Speed: 7 Teresa Gallucci


European Youth Championship (L,S) - Edinburgh (GBR) 2014
14 - 15 June 2014

Speed Female Youth A
1 Yana Lugovenko UKR
2 Anastasia Manuylova RUS
3 Patrycja Chudziak POL

Speed Female Youth B
1 Ekaterina Barashchuk RUS
2 Elizaveta Ivanova RUS
3 Giulia Fossali ITA

Speed Female Juniors
1 Nina Lach AUT
2 Varvara Shatalova RUS
3 Alexandra Elmer AUT

Lead Female Youth A
1 Alina Ring SUI
2 Molly Thompson-Smith GBR
3 Hannah Schubert AUT

Lead Female Youth B
1 Janja Garnbret SLO
2 Asja Gollo ITA
3 Tjasa Slemensek SLO

Lead Female Juniors
1 Anak Verhoeven BEL
2 Jessica Pilz AUT
3 Julia Chanourdie FRA
3 Salomé Romain FRA

Speed Male Youth A
1 Maksim Diachkov RUS
2 Kostiantyn Pavlenko UKR
3 Ludovico Fossali ITA

Speed Male Youth B
1 Denis Diachkov RUS
2 Paolo Martignene ITA
3 Gian Zodda Luca

Speed Male Juniors
1 Quentin Nambot FRA
2 Alessandro Santoni ITA
3 Sergei Luzhetskii RUS

Lead Male Youth A Youth
1 Georg Parma AUT
2 Fedir Samoilov UKR
3 Hugo Parmentier FRA

Lead Male Youth B
1 Giorgio Bendazzoli ITA
2 Mathias Posch AUT
3 Léo Ferrera FRA

Lead Male Juniors
1 Maël Bonzom FRA
2 Martin Bergant SLO
3 Sebastian Halenke GER