Second day of competition in Guiyang, China
The men and women of the U20 Lead category climbed today on day two at the IFSC Youth World Championships 2024. Hosted at the Rock Climbing Hall, Guizhou Bureau of Sports Qingzhen Sports Training Base in Guiyang, China the climbers competed in qualification in the morning to first get the pack down to 26 before the evening semi-final where eight finalists got their spots.
FINALISTS
U20 Women
Rosa REKAR (SLO)
Anastasiia KOBETS (UKR)
TAKEUCHI Ai (JPN)
Noe LOOSER (SUI)
Ines SCHWAIGER (AUT)
Sarina GHAFFARI (IRI)
Magdalena KOMPEIN (AUT)
NAGASHIMA Michika (JPN)
U20 Men
Darius RAPA (ROU)
SUGIMOTO Yusuke (JPN)
WADA Kisato (JPN)
OMATA Shion (JPN)
Slav KIROV (BUL)
Yannick NAGEL (GER)
Rhys CONLON (GBR)
Jack MACDOUGALL (GBR)
WHAT THEY SAID
Noe LOOSER (SUI):
“I’m really happy that I’m in finals. I enjoyed climbing a lot. I competed last year in Seoul and last year I was in finals as well when I finished eighth, so we will see tomorrow if I can do better than that. To make that happen I need to fight really hard but try to enjoy my climbing and have fun.”
Sarina GHAFFARI (IRI):
“The routes have been great, and I am really excited and proud as I can be to be here and climb in the finals. I was fifth place last year and I just need to climb with more confidence tomorrow to improve on that as I think confidence has so much impact on my climbing.”
Jack MACDOUGALL (GBR)
“I’m a little bit pumped, well a lot pumped, I had to go a lot further than I thought I would have to go. I’m in finals tomorrow so I’m relieved, I thought I wasn’t going to be for a minute so thank god.
“I haven’t done Youth Lead comps in a while but after having a really good qualis round earlier this morning definitely I wanted to make finals so I’m glad that I did for sure.
“I’m in finals so of course I’m going to go for a podium. I didn’t do Youth Worlds last year and I am psyched to be back as it’s my last year of Juniors and I wanted to make the trip to see what I could do in my last year. So far it’s going well, better than I thought it was going to go.”
RESULTS
https://ifsc.hopp.to/YW24results
NEXT UP
The final for the U20 men and women will be Saturday 24th August at 20:00 (UTC+8:00)