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IFSC Climbing World Championships

Biennial event

Summary

Biennial event

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The IFSC Climbing World Championships are the biennial (i.e. held once every two years) world championship event for competition climbing that is organized by the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC). This event determines the male and female world champions in the three disciplines of competition climbing: competition lead climbing, competition bouldering, and competition speed climbing. Since 2012, a combined ranking is also determined, for climbers competing in all disciplines, and additional medals are awarded based on that ranking. The first event was organized in Frankfurt in 1991.

History

Creation and organizers

In 1991, the Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme (UIAA) organized the competition climbing championships. The International Council for Competition Climbing (ICC) was created in 1997 as an internal body of the UIAA to take charge of competition climbing.

In 2007, the independent IFSC was created as a continuation of the ICC to govern competition climbing.

Events

The present format has four disciplines: lead, speed, bouldering, and combined.

The first championships had two events: lead and speed. Bouldering was added in 2001.

In 2012, 2014 and 2016, a combined ranking (sometimes also called overall ranking) was computed for climbers participating in all of the three events. In 2018, a specific combined event was included which the six climbers with highest overall ranking were invited to enter. The combined event requires athletes to compete in all three disciplines, and they receive a single combined score based on all three results. Scores achieved in single-discipline events are not relevant to the combined score, and there are no awards for any one part of the combined event. The 2018 combined event tested the new Olympic Games format, which was used at the first appearance of climbing at the Olympics in 2020. In 2019 the Combined competition was held again with the best eight men's and women's athletes receiving invitations to the 2020 Olympics.

In 2011, the IFSC Paraclimbing World Championships were established. The event is usually held alongside the open class competition. Para athletes compete in lead only, except for 2011 when a speed climbing competition was held as well.

Years

The World Championships are held every two years. Twice, the cycle has been moved to the other year and in those cases this was done by holding the next championship one year earlier. In 2012 the World Championships were shifted to even years to avoid interference with the 2013 World Games climbing event and to give a supplementary opportunity to demonstrate the sport for a possible integration into the 2020 Olympic Games. In 2019 the World Championships were again held one year early, to now allow the Championships to be the year before each Olympics to operate as a qualifier event.

Championships

EditionYearLocationDate(s)DisciplinesAthletesNationsWebsiteNotesEventLSBCPara
11991Germany Frankfurt1–2 October2XX---11022
21993Austria Innsbruck29–30 April2XX---12723
31995Switzerland Geneva5–6 May2XX---13524
41997France Paris31 January–1 February2XX---15326
51999United Kingdom Birmingham2–3 December2XX---18030
62001Switzerland Winterthur5–8 September3XXX--19825
72003France Chamonix9–13 July3XXX--24134
82005Germany Munich1–5 July3XXX--31851
92007Spain Avilés17–23 September3XXX--30250
102009China Xining30 June – 5 July4XXX--21944
112011Italy Arco15–24 July4XXX-X37456
122012France Paris12–16 September5XXXXX33156
132014Germany Munich21–23 August1--X--50952
Spain Gijón8–14 September4XX-XX
142016France Paris14–18 September5XXXXX53353http://worldclimbing2016.com/en/
152018Austria Innsbruck6–16 September5XXXXX83458
162019France Briançon16–17 July1----X
Japan Hachioji11–21 August4XXXX-25339
172021Russia Moscow15–21 September5XXXXX
182023Switzerland Bern1–12 August5XXXXX
192025South Korea Seoul21-28 September4XXXX
202027Czech Republic Brno5XXXXX

Medals

As of 2025 IFSC Climbing World Championships (excluding paraclimbing medals)

Note 1: share medals in 2007 IFSC Climbing World Championships

Note 2: one silver medal in 2021 IFSC Climbing World Championships for Climbing Federation of Russia

Men's results

Lead

Speed

2025CHN Long JianguoGER Leander CarmannsUSA Zach Hammer

Bouldering

2025JPN Sorato AnrakuFRA Mejdi SchalckKOR Lee Do-hyun

Combined

2023AUT Jakob Schubert (2)USA Colin DuffyJPN Tomoa Narasaki

Women's Results

Lead

2025SLO Janja Garnbret (3)SLO Rosa RekarKOR Seo Chae-hyun

Speed

2025POL Aleksandra Mirosław (3)CHN Deng LijuanCHN Zhou Yafei

Bouldering

2025SLO Janja Garnbret (4)FRA Oriane BertoneUSA Melina Costanza

Combined

2023SLO Janja Garnbret (3)AUT Jessica PilzJPN Ai Mori

References

References

  1. "Climbing Competitions' History". ifsc-climbing.org.
  2. "2018 World Championships – Combined general result – Men". IFSC.
  3. "2018 World Championships – Combined general result – Women". IFSC.
  4. "UIAA World Championship – Frankfurt 1991". ifsc-climbing.org.
  5. "UIAA World Championship – Innsbruck 1993". ifsc-climbing.org.
  6. "UIAA World Championship – Genève 1995". ifsc-climbing.org.
  7. "UIAA World Championship – Paris 1997". ifsc-climbing.org.
  8. "UIAA World Championship – Birmingham (GBR) 1999". ifsc-climbing.org.
  9. "UIAA World Championship – Winterthur (SUI) 2001". ifsc-climbing.org.
  10. "UIAA Worldchampionship – Chamonix (FRA) 2003". ifsc-climbing.org.
  11. "UIAA World Championship – Munich (GER) 2005". ifsc-climbing.org.
  12. "IFSC Climbing World Championship (L + B + S) – Aviles (ESP) 2007". ifsc-climbing.org.
  13. "IFSC Climbing World Championships – Qinghai (CHN) 2009". ifsc-climbing.org.
  14. "IFSC Climbing World Championships – Arco (ITA) 2011". ifsc-climbing.org.
  15. "IFSC Climbing World Championship – Paris (FRA) 2012". ifsc-climbing.org.
  16. "IFSC Climbing World Championship 2012 – Overall rankings". EGroupware@ifsc-climbing.org.
  17. "World Championships".
  18. "IFSC Climbing World Championship 2014 – Combined rankings". IFSC.
  19. "IFSC Climbing World Championship 2016". IFSC.
  20. "IFSC Climbing World Championship 2016 – Overall rankings". IFSC.
  21. "IFSC Climbing World Championship 2016 – Overall rankings". EGroupware@ifsc-climbing.org.
  22. "IFSC Climbing World Championship 2018". IFSC.
  23. "IFSC Climbing World Championship 2018 – Combined results". IFSC.
  24. "IFSC Climbing World Championships – Hachioji (JPN) 2019".
  25. "IFSC Climbing World Championships Combined – Hachioji (JPN) 2019".
  26. (16 March 2019). "IFSC Plenary Assembly 2019 – A full recap". IFSC.
  27. (1 April 2023). "2025 Climbing World Championships to be held in Seoul". IFSC.
  28. (11 April 2025). "2027 World Championships to be held in Brno, Czechia". IFSC.
  29. "IFSC Climbing World Championships – Qinghai (CHN) 2009 – 15 m Speed".
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