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Lama and Bibik win Bouldering World Cup in Hall

On 25/06 Olga Bibik and David Lama won the 6th stage of the Bouldering World Cup 2006 in Hall, Austria. Frenchman Jerome Meyer won his record third overall title.

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June 2006

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Giulio Malfer

As expected, the most surprising Bouldering World Cup in years lived up to its name in Austria's Hall last weekend. Frenchman Jerome Meyer won his third World Cup title one leg ahead of schedule, but the actual competition was won by child prodigy David Lama. Not content with leading the Difficulty World Cup 2006 at his first ever season, the 15 year old Austro-Tibetan made his first appearance in the explosive bouldering event and won this, too. Lama beat Meyer, who nevertheless celebrated his record World Cup hat trick, and last year's winner Kilian Fischhuber.

Olga Bibik regained her form and put an end to doubts cast after her dubious performance in the last two competitions. She beat teammate Yulia Abramchuk eand Juliette Danion from France to take overall lead once again. Showdown will be in the next competition set for November 2006... light years away!

The men's competition was, as always, by no means walk-over, and young Lama's path to victory sums this up clearly: he placed third last in the qualification for the semifinal largely due to a top which resisted 15 attempts prior to being solved, The semifinal ran more smoothly with three tops (out of 4) in 8 attempts placing him provisional second, immediately behind the extraordinary TomÃ¡s Mrazek, 1st with 3 tops in 3 attempts. The final act went down to the wire with 5 finalists sending 2 of the 4 problems, and Lama getting the better on the basis of his inferior number of attempts needed.

In the women's event Olga Bibik led the filed right from the outset, clinching victory with 4 tops in 5 attempts. The Russina champion needed to give it all to regain overall lead lost to Juliette Danion at Fiera di Primiero. Yulia Abramchuk's second place (3 tops in 20 attempts) "steals" vital points from Danion, third with 2 tops ahead of Austrian Anna StÃ¶hr. ChloÃ© Graftiaux from Belgium and Audrey Seguy from the States completed the final line up and photocopied last week's results, placing 5th and 6th respectively.

The final leg of the Bouldering World Cup will he held in Moscow at the start of November. Next on the agenda though is the European Cup in Yekaterinburg: Difficulty, Bouldering, Speed and, definitely, plenty of surprises!

Results men Hall (AUT)
1 David Lama (AUT)
2 Jerome Meyer (FRA)
3 Kilian Fischhuber (AUT)
4 Tom‡s Mrazek (CZE)
5 Jorg Verhoeven (NDL)
6 Lucas Preti (ITA)
7 Ja-Bee Kim (KOR)
8 Stephane Julien (FRA)
9 GÃ©rome Pouvreau (FRA)
10 Andre Borowka (GER)
11 Christian Core (ITA)
12 Jonas Baumann (GER)
13 Andrew Earl (GBR)
14 Emanuel Moosburger
15 Tomasz Oleksy (POL)
16 Loic Gaidioz (FRA)
17 Kazuma Watanabe (JPN)
18 Gareth Parry (GBR)

Results women Hall (AUT)
1 Olga Bibik (RUS)
2 Yulia Abramchuk (RUS)
3 Juliette Danion (FRA)
4 Anna StÃ¶hr (AUT)
5 ChloÃ© Graftiaux (BEL)
6 Audrey Seguy (USA)
7 Anja Hodann (SWE)
8 MÃ©lanie Son (FRA)
9 Ludovine Harmand (FRA)
10 Colette Ciret (FRA)
11 Stefania De Grandi (ITA)
12 Emilie Abgrall (FRA)
13 Barbara Bacher (AUT)
14 Angela Eiter (AUT)
15 Silva Rajfova (CZE)
16 Samantha Berry (AUS)
17 Helena Lipenska (CZE)
18 Katja Vidmar (SLO)
19 Sabine Bacher (AUT)