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Dmitry Sharafutdinov from Russia and Anna Stöhr from Austria are the new Boulder World Champions! Silver for Adam Ondra & Sasha DiGiulian, bronze for Rustam Gelmanov & Juliane Wurm. Two beautiful finals at the IFSC World Championship in arco, Italy

Shauna Coxsey & Francesca Metcalf are the first Bouldering Semifinalists at the IFSC Climbing World Championship in arco.

All the hot favourites qualify for the Semi-final. The provisional ranking is led by Hori (JPN) and Lachat (SUI). Others to qualify include the Italians Preti, Moroni and Scarperi, as well as Ondra (Cze) and Fischhuber (Aut).

As mentioned, the Planetmountain team is in arco to follow the IFSC World Championship live.

The IFSC World Championship kicks off in arco and expectations for this great sport event are simply enormous.

Adam Ondra has achieved the first 8c+on-sight on Italian soil by sending L'Avaro at the Tetto di Sarre (Aosta).

The first stage of the Lead World Cup 2011 was won by Jakob Schubert. Four women shared victory: Caroline Ciavaldini, Angela Eiter, Mina Markovic and Jain Kim.

The first stage of the Lead World Cup 2011 started in Chamonix this morning, along with the Speed event.

Opening show of the IFSC Climbing World Championship on Saturday 16 July at 21.45 at the Climbing Stadium, Località Prabi, arco

The IOC Executive Board announced yesterday that sport climbing has been shortlisted for the 2020 Olympic Games along with seven other sports. This is a fundamental step towards the main goal set by the IFSC International Federation of Sport Climbing and all rock climbers. The news arrives ahead of one...

Austrian Kilian Fischhuber has won the Sheffield stage of the Bouldering World Cup 2011 and in doing so he has won this 5th overall World Cup. The women's event was won by won by Akiyo Noguchi.

No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 by Graham Bowley has now been published in Italy by Mondadori. The book retraces the 2008 tragedy on K2 which cost the lives of 11 alpinists and only Italian mountaineer Marco Confortola survived.

The video report by Udo Neumann of the 7th stage of the Bouldering World Cup 2011 in Barcelona, won by Akiyo Noguchi and Guillaume Glairon Mondet.

All the finals of the IFSC Climbing World Championship in arco 2011 will be broadcast live on Rai Sport 1 and Rai Sport 2

On 25/06/2011 a Russian expedition comprised of Alexander Odintsov, Alexey Lonchinskiy, Ivan Dozhdev and Eugeniy Dmitrienko summited Latok III (6949m) in Pakistan's Karakoram via the hitherto unclimbed West Face.

All the nominations for the VIth arco Rock Legends, the sport climbing Oscars scheduled to take place on Thursday 21 July 2011 at arco (Italy) with two awards, the Salewa Rock Award and the La Sportiva Competition Award. The celebration will be held during the arco 2011 IFSC Climbing World...