The climbers still left with a shot at the final IFSC Para Climbing World Cup medals of the year were set today in Arco, Italy with qualification complete across the 17 sport classes.

USA’s Emeline Lakrout made the final in the women’s B1 sport class, but she nearly didn’t even make it to Italy: “It was fabulous today. It was nerve-wracking, but we got out there, we had some travel troubles on the way so being here at all is a win.

“We left New York and about 45 minutes in the pilot told us we had a mechanical issue, and we turned around. Then the airline told us there was nothing they could do to get us here, but we found a bit of an obscure airline. We were on the road for about 24 hours, and we made it at midnight last night. So straight into it. But I thrive off the chaos so I can take it.”

Reflecting on her season Lakrout said: “This competition season has been super long, so I have been in training mode for nine months at this point, so in some ways it’s the final triumphant push. It’s always stressful training for comps. Training muscle, technique, trying to find the right holds I the gym. But then you don’t want to build muscle four weeks before, so at what point do you stop. Strength training, recovery. There’s a lot to balance there.”

As one of the remaining few with a hope of a medal, Lakrout said: “The goal is always gold. We only recently formed a class in B1 and so that was an exciting time and for a lot of us it was our first medals, but now we are past the novelty now of getting on the podium and we try to see what we can really do and see what happens.”

FINALISTS

Women’s B1

Nadia BREDICE (ITA)
Laila GRILLO (SUI)
Emeline LAKROUT (USA)

Men’s B2

Razvan NEDU (ROU)
AITA Sho (JPN)
Francisco Javier AGUILAR AMOEDO (ESP)
HAMANOUE Fumiya (JPN)

Women’s B2

Linda LE BON (AUT)
Edith SCHEINECKER (AUT)
Ivon LAWERENZ (GER)
Luisa GRUBE (GER)

Men’s B3

Cosmin Florin CANDOI (ROU)
MINOWADA Kazuhiro (JPN)
Lux LOSEY SAIL (GBR)

Men’s RP1

Korbinian FRANCK (GER)
Kim RISHAUG (NOR)
Aloïs POTTIER (FRA)
OKADA Takuya (JPN)
Michael SCHLEGL (AUT)
Tim BERRUYER GALTÉ (FRA)

Women’s RP1

Melissa RUIZ (USA)
Marta PECHE SALINERO (ESP)
Sarah LONGHI (SUI)
Eva MOL (NED)

Men’s RP2

Benjamin MAYFORTH (USA)
Xavier RITHNER (SUI)
Iván MUÑOZ ESCOLAR (ESP)
Manikandan KUMAR (IND)
Daniel WIENER (AUT)

Women’s RP2

Jasmin PLANK (AUT)
Chiara CAVINA (ITA)
Dina EIVIK (NOR)
Caroline WINSTEL (USA)

Men’s RP3

TAKANO Tadashi (JPN)
Camille CAULIER (BEL)
Jamie BARENDRECHT (NED)
Luke SMITH (GBR)

Women’s RP3

Christiane LUTTIKHUIZEN (NED)
Anita AGGARWAL (GBR)
Laura HEATON (USA)
Elisa MARTIN (ITA)

Men’s AL1

Angelino ZELLER (AUT)
Markus PÖSENDORFER (AUT)
HATAKEYAMA Naohisa (JPN)

Men’s AL2

Thierry DELARUE (FRA)
Albert GUARDIA FERRER (ESP)
Iván GERMÁN PASCUAL (ESP)
YUKI Shuhei (JPN)
David KAMMERER (ITA)
Frederik LEYS (BEL)

Women AL2

Lucie JARRIGE (FRA)
Sarah LARCOMBE (AUS)
Fiamma COCCHI (ITA)
Joanna NEWTON (GBR)
Cail SORIA (USA)

Men’s AU2

Kevin BARTKE (GER)
Brian ZARZUELA (USA)
Anthony GUILLEN (FRA)
Sebastian MUSSON (GBR)

Women’s AU2

Lucia CAPOVILLA (ITA)
Eleanor RUBIN (USA)
Isabel BENVENUTI (USA)
Carolin HEBERLE (GER)

Men’s AU3

Mor Michael SAPIR (ISR)
Dominic GEISSELER (SUI)
Ewen CLODIC (FRA)
Liviu-Nicolae MATEI (ROU)

Women’s AU3

Manca SMREKAR (SLO)
Rosalie SCHAUPERT (GER)
Paula DE LA CALLE PIZARRO (ESP)

For full results go to: https://ifsc.hopp.to/ArcoPWCresults

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