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Lisa Benetti and Evgueni Ovchinnikov convincingly won last weekend's 9th edition of the Malé Sports Climbing Master, Italy.

Bruno Brunod and Gloriana Pellissier won the Ville d’Aoste Skyrace on Sunday 21 July

François Legrand and Martina Cufer win the International Master Serre Chavalier 2002

Alexandre Chabot and Chloè Minoret win the European Championship 2002 in Chamonix

Christian Core and Sandrine Levet win the first European Bouldering Championship in Chamonix 2002

The European Championships 2002 get underway in Chamonix today

On Friday 5 July the second round of the X-adventure Raid Series gets underway between Les Arcs, Bourg St Maurice and Courmayeur.

Katrin Sedlymayer and Alexandre Chabot win the World Cup Difficulty 2002 in Lecco. This is the third victory in three years for the Frenchman

Results based on Qualification: the winner of the second World Cup Bouldering 2002 is therefore Malcom Smith (GBR), followed by Christian Core from Italy and Hiroshi Okano from Japan, third.

Lisa Rands wins the Bouldering World Cup at Lecco, ahead of Theroux and Levet.

The Russian Alexandre Pechekhonov and Ukranian Olena Repko win the Speed World Cup in Lecco.

Starting from Lecco, the Bouldering World Cup will include twelve finalists instead of eight. The rule amendment, made by the International Council for Competition, comes in the wake of last week's first stage held at Fiera di Primiero.

Meyer and Perlova win the first stage of the World Cup Bouldering 2002at Fiera di Primiero

Chabot and Sarkany win the third stage of the World Cup Difficulty 2002 at Imst

The 9th edition of the Malé Sports Climbing Master will take place at Malé, Italy from 22-23 August 2002.

The Alpine SkyRaid came to a close last weekend after an intensive eight days across the Alps from Courmayeur to Cortina.