Janja Garnbret and Kai Harada Boulder World Champions

Janja Garnbret Bouldering World Champion! After dealing with the disappointment of not having become Lead World Champion just a few days ago, despite having topped all the routes in the qualifiers, the semi and the final (Jessica Pilz won having topped out 7 seconds faster), in the bouldering event Garnbret displayed her immense class winning a competition that was set by no means easy. The 19-year-old earned her victory on the first problem: there where two world champions, two overall World Cup winners and one European champion had failed, Garnbret literarily flew to the top. On the second, brtual, boulder only she reached a zone. Problem # 3 was flashed by Staša Gejo, sent second go by Akiyo Noguchi and fourth go by Garnbret. Only Noguchi sent the last porblem, while Jessica Pilz and Miho Nonka at least managed to clinch a zone. It’s worth noting that Petra Klinger, European champion, provisional second after the Semis and therefore no slouch when it comes to bouldering, failed to make  single zone, proving how difficult the problems were. With her victory Garnbret has written another page of sport climbing history, as she has become the first woman to become both Lead World Champion - in Paris in 2016 - and Boulder World Champion.

The new male Boulder World Champion is called Kai Harada, comes from Japan just like two other Innsbruck finalists, and he climbed with the ease and inspiration of a 19-year-old outsider who has nothing to lose. Many hot favourites were shut down in the Semis, such as Adam Ondra, Tomoa Nagasaki, Jernej Kruder, Jan Hojer, Jakob Schubert, Aleksei Rubtsov and Gabriele Moroni and in the finals Harada, with his four tops, was the undisputed king. Silver was won with three tops by South Korea’s Jongwon Chon, while bronze went to this season’s other revelation, Slovenia’s Gregor Vezonik who only last month won his first World Cup competition. Keita Watabe and Kokoro Fuji placed fourth and fifth respectively while the other huge surprise, England’s Nathan Phillips, placed sixth.

Female
1 Janja Garnbret SLO 2T3z77
2 Akiyo Noguchi JPN 2T2z43
3 Stasa Gejo SRB 1T2z16
4 Jessica Pilz AUT 0T2z04
5 Miho Nonaka JPN 0T2z04
6 Petra Klingler SUI 0T0z00
7 Berit Schwaiger AUT
8 Sol Sa KOR
9 Fanny Gibert FRA
10 Margo Hayes USA
11 Hannah Slaney GBR
12 Katja Kadic SLO
13 Alannah Yip CAN
14 Ievgeniia Kazbekova UKR
15 Tatiana Shemulinkina RUS
16 Alex Puccio USA
17 Manon Hily FRA
18 Chloe Caulier BEL
19 Johanna Färber AUT
20 Katharina Saurwein AUT
21 Julia Pinggera AUT
21 Franziska Sterrer AUT
23 Ekaterina Kipriianova RUS
23 Laura Stöckler AUT
25 Kyra Condie USA
25 Mei Kotake JPN
27 Oceania Mackenzie AUS
27 Iuliia Panteleeva RUS
27 Ashima Shiraishi USA
30 Sandra Lettner AUT
31 Claire Buhrfeind USA
31 Brooke Raboutou USA
33 Lilli Kiesgen GER
33 Mia Krampl SLO
33 Karoline Sinnhuber AUT
36 Allison Vest CAN
37 Mina Markovic SLO
37 Vera Zijlstra NED
39 Anne-Sophie Koller SUI
39 Urska Repusic SLO
41 Alejandra Contreras CHI
41 Jain Kim KOR
43 Alma Bestvater GER
43 Francis Guillen VEN
43 Giorgia Tesio ITA
43 Anna Zaikina RUS
47 Emily Phillips GBR
48 Celine Cuypers BEL
49 Elena Krasovskaia RUS
49 Evgeniya Lapshina RUS
51 Vita Lukan SLO
51 Maya Madere USA
53 Anouck Jaubert FRA
53 Andrea Kümin SUI
53 Ida Kups POL
53 LINDA Sjödin SWE
57 Tiffany Melius AUS
57 Martina Zanetti ITA
59 Valeri Kremer ISR
59 Muykuay Silva CHI
59 Anna Tsyganova RUS
62 Rebecca Frangos CAN
63 Emma Horan AUS
63 Tjasa Slemensek SLO
63 Katrine Vandet Salling DEN
63 Naama Yohai ISR
67 Tina Johnsen Hafsaas NOR
67 Cirvele Katrīna LAT
69 Jeongran Ko KOR
69 Yael Taub ISR
69 Anastasija Teriochina LTU
72 Prateeksha Arun IND
72 Alise Zvigule LAT
74 Sunniva Eik Haave NOR
74 Assel Marlenova KAZ
74 Giulia Medici ITA
74 Jennifer Wood GBR
78 Margarita Agambayeva KAZ
78 Camila Macedo BRA
80 Karina Bilkova CZE
80 Di Niu CHN
80 Eliska Novotna CZE
83 Lucinda Ann Stirling AUS
83 Margaryta Zakharova UKR
85 Bronwen Karnis CAN
85 Meagan Martin USA
85 Babette Roy CAN
88 Heloïse Doumont BEL
88 Daniela Kotrbova CZE
88 Luana Riscado BRA
91 Lisa Chulich USA
92 Anna Brozek POL
92 Patrycja Chudziak POL
92 Erica Gatland NZL
92 leah Jeffries AUS
92 Natalia Kalucka POL
92 Anna Krajushkina EST
92 Roxy Perry AUS
92 Leslie Romero VEN
92 Aleksandra Rudzinska POL
92 Nitsa Tvauri GEO
92 Lucy Whitehead NZL
103 Youjin Cha KOR
104 Andrea Ebner ITA
104 Alejandra Inzunza CHI
106 Thais Makino Shiraiwa BRA
106 Antonia Valenzuela CHI
108 Aleksandra Kalucka POL
109 Katrin Amann SWE
109 Patrícia Antunes BRA
109 Valiantsina Chamiakina BLR
109 Heeyeon Park KOR

Male
1 Kai Harada JPN 4T4z76
2 Jongwon Chon KOR 3T4z910
3 Gregor Vezonik SLO 3T4z917
4 Keita Watabe JPN 2T4z610
5 Kokoro Fujii JPN 2T2z54
6 Nathan Phillips GBR 1T2z56
7 Tomoa Narasaki JPN
8 Jernej Kruder SLO
9 Jan Hojer GER
10 Jakob Schubert AUT
11 Mickael Mawem FRA
12 Aleksei Rubtsov RUS
13 Gabriele Moroni ITA
14 Manuel Cornu FRA
15 Yoshiyuki Ogata JPN
16 Florian Klingler AUT
17 Adam Ondra CZE
18 Nimrod Marcus ISR
19 Sergii Topishko UKR
20 William Ridal GBR
21 Gholamali Baratzadeh IRI
21 Sascha Lehmann SUI
23 Jonatan Flor Vazquez ESP
23 Tomoaki Takata JPN
25 Alexander Megos GER
25 Vadim Timonov RUS
27 Nathaniel Coleman USA
27 Rei Sugimoto JPN
29 Martin Stranik CZE
29 Elias Weiler AUT
31 Nils Favre SUI
31 Rudolph Ruana USA
33 Sam Avezou FRA
33 Matthew Cousins GBR
35 Jason Holowach CAN
35 Dimitri Vogt SUI
37 Cheung-chi Shoji Chan HKG
37 Meichi Narasaki JPN
39 Yuval Shemla ISR
39 Domen Skofic SLO
41 Yannick Flohé GER
41 Egor Kryachkov RUS
43 Eric Lopez Mateos ESP
43 Thilo Jeldrik Schröter NOR
43 Dmitrii Sharafutdinov RUS
46 Fedir Samoilov UKR
47 Marcello Bombardi ITA
47 Simon Lorenzi BEL
47 Sergei Luzhetskii RUS
50 Alex Khazanov ISR
51 Sean Bailey USA
51 YuFei Pan CHN
53 Nicky De Leeuw NED
53 Robert Luby SVK
53 Anze Peharc SLO
53 Lucas Uchida CAN
57 Jan-Luca Posch AUT
58 HuaLong Song CHN
59 Kipras Baltrunas LTU
59 Isaac Estevez ECU
59 Stephane Hanssens BEL
59 Pedro Ferreira Nicoloso BRA
59 Jean Ouriques BRA
59 Sergio Pastor Martínez ESP
65 Sebastien Lazure CAN
66 William Bosi GBR
67 Riccardo Piazza ITA
68 Aidan Roberts GBR
68 Zan Sudar SLO
70 Georg Parma AUT
70 Hannes Puman SWE
70 Carlo Traversi USA
73 Matthias Erber AUT
73 Rolands Rugens LAT
75 Nicolas Collin BEL
75 Borja Farah CHI
75 Jakub Jedlicka CZE
75 Loïc Timmermans BEL
75 Jorg Verhoeven NED
80 Sean Mccoll CAN
81 Hanwool Kim KOR
81 Luka Potocar SLO
83 Petar Ivanov BUL
83 Meirāns Pēteris LAT
83 Stepan Stranik CZE
83 Sergio Verdasco Urizal ESP
87 Josef Sundakov-Krumins AUS
88 Stefan Scarperi ITA
89 Lukas Geukens BEL
89 Yury Novitskiy RUS
89 Vojtech Trojan CZE
92 Ronny Escobar CHI
92 Rasmus Hüdsi EST
92 Oleksii Krynetskyi UKR
92 Peter Kuric SVK
92 Minyoung Lee KOR
92 Ram Levin ISR
98 Matthaios Valsamidis GRE
99 Stefan Bednar SVK
99 Calrin Curtis RSA
99 Alfons Dornauer AUT
99 Theis Lindegren Elfenbein DEN
99 Ludovico Fossali ITA
99 Cesar Grosso BRA
99 Felipe Ho Foganholo BRA
99 Giga Jankhoteli GEO
99 Yongsu Lee KOR
99 Nikola Petrov BUL
99 Michael Piccolruaz ITA
99 Yarden Pilpel ISR
99 George Sanders NZL
99 Rolf Fredrik Serlachius SWE
99 Ka-chun Yau HKG
114 Alexander Averdunk GER
115 Mikel Asier Linacisoro Molina ESP
116 Benjamin Ayala CHI
116 John Brosler USA
116 Artyom Devyaterikov KAZ
116 Hossein Familrohani IRI
116 Santiago Garcia ARG
116 Carlos Granja ECU
116 Benjamin Hanna USA
116 Galo Hernandez ECU
116 Donghyun Jang KOR
116 Rishat Khaibullin KAZ
116 Gaurav Kumar IND
116 Bassa Mawem FRA
116 Semen Ovchinnikov RUS
116 Bharath Pereira IND
116 Sungbo Seo KOR
116 Benjamin Vargas CHI
132 Borna Cujic CRO
132 Campbell Harrison AUS
132 Chingkheinga. Maibam IND
132 Ivan Pevec CRO
132 Nickolaie Rivadeneira ECU
137 Pedro Bello CHI
137 Roman Kovalyev KGZ
137 Or Miniely ISR
137 Aleksandr Shorikov EST
141 Javier Cano Blazquez ESP
141 Maciej Dobrzanski POL
141 Mykhayil Tkachuk UKR
141 Danny Valencia ECU
145 Viktor Trpovski MKD
146 Reshmin Mihin Amarasinghe LKA
146 Giorgi Djaparidze GEO
146 Marcin Dzienski POL
149 Orfeas Tsiaousis GRE
150 Sergii Karpin UKR