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Ice Climbing World Cup 2015, Maxim Tomilov and Liudmila Badalyan win in Bozeman

The first stage of the Ice Climbing World Cup, held on 12 and 13 December at Bozeman, USA, was won by Maxim Tomilov and Liudmila Badalyan. The Speed competition was won by Nikolai Kuzovlev and Kendra Stritch.

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Kendra Stritch made history by becoming the first American to win a stage of the UIAA Ice Climbing World Tour

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First competition, first verdicts in the Ice Climbing World Cup presented by The North Face that took place last Friday and Saturday at Bozeman, USA, in unusually high temperatures that resulted in the competition wall being completely devoid of ice. Nevertheless, the atmosphere proved electric with circa 1,000 spectators who gathered in Montana to witness the first ever UIAA Cup on American soil.

44 male athletes and 18 female athletes took part in the Lead competition, won on Saturday night by Russia's Maxim Tomilov who beat, by a hair's breadth, South Korea's Park HeeYong and his teammate Sergey Tarasov, at 48 the true veteran of the competition. In the women's event Russia's Liudmila Badalyan, after having topped out in the Semifinal along with Angelika Rainer and Petra Klingler, managed to win gold, beating South Korea's Woonseon Shin and her teammate Nadezhda Gallyamova. After her top in the Semifinal, Rainer had to make do with 5th overall, immediately behind Gallyamova and Ekaterina Vlasova.

Bozeman also hosted the first stage of the Speed World Cup, won somewhat surprisingly with a massive 2 second margin by home athlete Kendra Stritch who, in doing so, managed to break the usual Russian hegemony in the speed event. Stritch's victory happens also to be the first time ever that a US athlete has won a stage of the Ice Climbing World Cup and it's worth pointing out that she could not have chosen a better occasion! Nadezhda Gallyamova placed second, while in the small final between Petra Klinger and Ekaterina Vlasova it was the Russian who took bronze. In the men's competition the fastest was Russia's Nikolai Kuzovlev who took full advantage of Egor Trapeznikov's fall. In the battle for third place - a fraternal duel between Maxim and Alexey Tomilov – it was Maxim once again who earned a place on the podium.

The next stage of the Ice Climbing World Cup will take place in Cheongsong in South Korea on 10-11 January 2015.

Lead Men
1 Maxim Tomilov RUS 13.190
2 HeeYong Park KOR 13.182
3 Sergey Tarasov RUS 9.150
4 Gordon Mcarthur CAN 7.120
5 Alexey Tomilov RUS 6.120
6 Nikolai Kuzovlev RUS 6.112
7 Valentyn Sypavin UKR 6.112
8 YoungHye Kwon KOR 6.112
9 Janez Svoljšak SLO 3.082

Lead Women
1 Liudmila Badalyan RUS 14.212
2 WoonSeon Shin KOR 13.202
3 Nadezhda Gallyamova RUS 12.200
4 Ekaterina Vlasova RUS 12.191
5 Angelika Rainer ITA 12.190
6 HanNaRai Song KOR 9.170
7 Petra Klingler SUI 9.160
8 Sarah Hueniken CAN 6.120

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