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The International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) European Qualifier boulder & Lead is currently taking place in Laval, France. The Semifinals yesterday were led by Oriane Bertone and Toby Roberts. The Finals take place today and will be streamed live: women commence at 09:30, men at 14:30.

The International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) European Qualifier boulder & Lead is currently taking place in Laval, France. The Semifinals today and Finals on Sunday will be streamed live.

German climber Florian Wientjes has made the second ascent of Floatin, the 8C+ boulder problem at Mizugaki in Japan put up by Ryuchi Murai in 2021.

The Pan American Games 2023 concluded in Santiago, Chile, yesterday with Team USA making a clean sweep and winning all four slots for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Piper Kelly and Samuel Watson qualified for Speed, Jesse Grupper & Natalia Grossman for the boulder & Lead event.

Jorge Díaz-Rullo has made the fifth ascent of Bibliographie, the 9b+ at Céüse in France first ascended in 2020 by Alex Megos.

47-year-old Japanese climber Dai Koyamada has made the first ascent of Okuro, an 8C boulder problem at Gifu in Japan.

24-year-old Slovenian climber Janja Garnbret has made a fast repeat of New Base Line (8B+) at Magic Wood in Switzerland.

At Vranjača close to Paklenica in Croatia Adam Ondra has made the first ascent of 'B je to', the country's first 9b.

Interview with Jakob Schubert after the first ascent of Project Big at Flatanger in Norway last week. The 32-year-old Austrian has now called the climb B.I.G. and suggested the grade 9c. This is currently the third route in the world with this grade, after Silence at Flatanger and DNA in...

Yesterday at the IFSC Speed European Qualifier in Rome, Italy, Aleksandra Miroslaw from Poland and Bassa Mawem from France secured Speed Climbing spots at the Olympic Games Paris 2024. In the qualifiers Miroslaw set a new world record by stopping the clock after 6.24 seconds.

Franco Cookson, Ben Ditto, Nico Favresse and Sean Villanueva have attempted to forge a new big wall climb on the Mirror Wall in Greenland. As usual the group sailed from Scotland to Greenland. Favresse reports

Swedish climber Matilda Söderlund has made the second ascent of Niemisis at Niemisel, which she believes could be graded 9a.

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Spanish climber Ainhize Belar Barrutia has repeated Wallstreet, the world's first 8c established in 1987 by Wolfgang Güllich and located on Krottenseer Turm in the Frankenjura, Germany.

British rock climber Pete Whittaker has made the first free ascent of the second pitch of 'Eigerdosis' on the Profilveggen / Profile wall at Jøssingfjord in Norway. The previous aid climb is now a trad crack that checks in at 8c.

Austria’s Jakob Schubert won the men's Combined boulder & Lead in Bern last night , while America's Colin Duffy took silver and Japan's Tomoa Narasaki bronze. All three have qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games