Sport climbing Olympic Games Tokyo 2020: women's qualifiers in Toulouse today

After the at times extremely harsh criticism aimed at the Combined Olympic format which, given the limited number of medals available in Tokyo, includes all three disciplines Speed, Lead and Boulder, it has to be said that yesterday’s Qualifying Event in Toulouse proved exciting and went down to the wire, with those who qualified and those who didn’t often separated by only a hair’s breadth.

Those who qualified for Tokyo 2020 are Adam Ondra, YuFei Pan, Alberto Ginés López, Jan Hojer, Bassa Mawem and Nathaniel Coleman, who will all compete in the pro forma final on Saturday night along with the two Japanese climbers Kokoro Fuji and Meichi Narasaki. Apparently though, despite finishing sixth, Fuji has not qualified for competing on his home turf since Japan has already filled its nation quota.

Those who didn’t qualify include Italy’s Stefano Ghisolfi who, after having placed 21st in Speed ​​and 16th in Boulder (his flash on bloc #3 was awesome), was somewhat "unlucky" with a too easy Lead which was topped out by himself Ondra, Lopez and Lehmann. The fact of the matter is that his total score, achieved by multiplying the results of all three disciplines, was not sufficient to qualify. He would have probably only have qualified by winning the Lead. For him therefore, and for all other European athletes still dreaming of Tokyo 2020, there is now only one last chance: the European Combined Championship that will take place in Moscow in March 2020, where there is one more pass up for grabs.

The Olympic qualifiers continue today with the women’s competition. Just like yesterday 22 athletes will enter the arena at 11:00 for the Speed event, followed by Boulder at 13:00 and Lead at 16:45.

IFSC Combined Qualifier Toulouse 2019 - Women Qualifications - SPEED


IFSC Combined Qualifier Toulouse 2019 - Women Qualifications - BOULDER


IFSC Combined Qualifier Toulouse 2019 - Women Qualifications - LEAD


Athletes competing in Toulouse
AUT Sandra Lettner
CAN Alannah Yip
CHN YueTong Zhang, YiLing Song YuFei Pan
CZE Adam Ondra
ESP Alberto Ginés Lopez
FRA Fanny Gibert, Julia Chanourdie, Anouck Jaubert Manuel Cornu, Bassa Mawem
GBR William Bosi
GER Jan Hojer, Yannick Flohé
INA Aries Susanti Rahayu Alfian Muhamad
IRI Elnaz Rekabi
ITA Laura Rogora Stefano Ghisolfi
JPN Ai Mori, Futaba Ito Kokoro Fujii, Meichi Narasaki, Rei Sugimoto, Keita Dohi
KOR Jain Kim, Sol Sa Jongwon Chon
POL Aleksandra Kalucka
RUS Iuliia Kaplina Nikolai Iarilovets, Aleksey Rubtsov
SLO Lucka Rakovec, Mia Krampl Anze Peharc, Jernej Kruder
SUI Sascha Lehmann
UKR Ievgeniia Kazbekova
USA Kyra Condie, Ashima Shiraishi, Margo Hayes Nathaniel Coleman, Sean Bailey

Athletes qualified for Tokyo 2020
1 Janja Garnbret SLO
2 Akiyo Noguchi JPN
3 Shauna Coxsey GBR
4 Aleksandra Miroslaw POL
5 Miho Nonaka JPN
6 Petra Klingler SUI
7 Brooke Raboutou USA
8 Jessica Pilz AUT

1 Tomoa Narasaki JPN
2 Jakob Schubert AUT
3 Rishat Khaibullin KAZ
4 Kai Harada JPN
5 Mickael Mawem FRA
6 Alexander Megos GER
7 Ludovico Fossali ITA
8 Sean McColl CAN