This article lists the main competition climbing events and their results for 2017.
Date | Location | Competition | Discipline | Men | Women |
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August 30 – September 10 | Innsbruck [1] | World Youth Championship | Junior Lead | Yoshiyuki Ogata | Claire Buhrfeind |
Youth A Lead | Shuta Tanaka | Ashima Shiraishi | |||
Youth B Lead | Colin Duffy | Ai Mori | |||
Junior Speed | Carlos Granja | Daria Kan | |||
Youth A Speed | Sergey Rukin | Aleksandra Kalucka | |||
Youth B Speed | Jacopo Stefani | Polina Kulagina | |||
Junior Bouldering | Yoshiyuki Ogata | Claire Buhrfeind | |||
Youth A Bouldering | Filip Schenk | Ashima Shiraishi | |||
Youth B Bouldering | Rei Kawamata | Futaba Ito | |||
Junior Combined | Meichi Narasaki | Laura Stöckler | |||
Youth A Combined | Sam Avezou | Sandra Lettner | |||
Youth B Combined | Semen Ovchinnikov | Natsuki Tanii |
Date | Location | Competition | Discipline | Men | Women |
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June 30 – July 1 | Campitello di Fassa [2] | European Championships | Lead | Romain Desgranges | Anak Verhoeven |
Speed | Marcin Dzienski | Iuliia Kaplina | |||
August 18–19 | Munich [3] | European Championships | Bouldering | Jan Hojer | Staša Gejo |
Combined | Jan Hojer | Janja Garnbret | |||
September 18–21 | Tehran [4] | Asian Championships | Bouldering | Kokoro Fujii | Akiyo Noguchi |
Lead | Kokoro Fujii | Aya Onoe | |||
Speed | Reza Alipourshena | Puji Lestari |
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