Speed climbing at the 2021 IFSC Climbing World Cup

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Speed climbing
at the 2021 IFSC Climbing World Cup
Location
Dates28 May – 3 July 2021
Champions
Men Flag of Indonesia.svg Veddriq Leonardo
Women Flag of the United States.svg Emma Hunt
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Speed climbing competitions at the 2021 IFSC Climbing World Cup are being held at two locations, from 28 May to 3 July 2021. The International Federation of Sport Climbing had originally scheduled six speed climbing events concluding on 31 October, but COVID-19 travel restrictions resulted in the cancellation of events in Xiamen and Wujiang in China, Jakarta in Indonesia and Seoul in South Korea. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

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The top three in each competition received medals, and at the end of the season, the overall winners were awarded trophies. The overall winners were determined based upon points, which athletes were awarded for finishing in the top 30 of each individual event. [6]

Overview

DateLocationVenueMenWomen
May, 28–30 Flag of the United States.svg Salt Lake City, United StatesIndustry SLC [7] Flag of Indonesia.svg Veddriq Leonardo Flag of Poland.svg Aleksandra Mirosław
July, 1–3 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Villars, SwitzerlandPlace du Rendez-Vous [8] Flag of Indonesia.svg Veddriq Leonardo Flag of Russia.svg Ekaterina Barashchuk
OVERALL WINNERS Flag of Indonesia.svg Veddriq Leonardo Flag of the United States.svg Emma Hunt
NATIONAL TEAM Flag of Indonesia.svg Indonesia

Records broken

EventRoundClimberLocationTimeDate
Men's speedQualification Flag of Indonesia.svg Kiromal Katibin Salt Lake City, USA5.258 [9] May 28, 2021
Final Flag of Indonesia.svg Veddriq Leonardo Salt Lake City, USA5.208 [10] May 28, 2021

Competition format

The speed wall is standardized: 15 meters high, 5 degrees overhanging, same route.

In the qualifications, athletes race in both lane a and lane b; only their best times are recorded and used for seeding. Sixteen fastest athletes in the qualifications progress into the finals where athletes are seeded and raced head-to-head against.each other.

Overall ranking

The overall ranking is determined based upon points, which athletes are awarded for finishing in the top 30 of each individual event. There are four competitions in the season. The national ranking is the sum of the points of that country's three best male and female athletes. Results displayed (in brackets) are not counted.

Men

The results of the ten most successful athletes of the Speed World Cup 2021: [11]

RankNamePoints Salt Lake City Villars
1 Flag of Indonesia.svg Veddriq Leonardo 2001. 1001. 100
2 Flag of Indonesia.svg Kiromal Katibin 1452. 803. 65
3 Flag of Poland.svg Marcin Dzieński 963. 6511. 31
4 Flag of the United States.svg John Brosler 814. 5513. 26
5 Flag of Russia.svg Dmitrii Timofeev 80—2. 80
6 Flag of France.svg Pierre Rebreyend 597. 4318. 16
7 Flag of Russia.svg Vladislav Deulin 55—4. 55
8 Flag of the United States.svg Merritt Ernsberger 515. 51—
8 Flag of Iran.svg Mehdi Alipour Shenazandifard 51—5. 51
10 Flag of Ukraine.svg Yaroslav Tkach 508. 4021. 10

Women

The results of the ten most successful athletes of the Speed World Cup 2021: [12]

RankNamePoints Salt Lake City Villars
1 Flag of the United States.svg Emma Hunt 1312. 805. 51
2 Flag of Poland.svg Patrycja Chudziak 1204. 553. 65
3 Flag of Poland.svg Aleksandra Mirosław 100*1. 100—
3 Flag of Russia.svg Ekaterina Barashchuk 100*—1. 100
5 Flag of France.svg Anouck Jaubert 94*5. 517. 43
5 Flag of Poland.svg Natalia Kalucka 94*6. 476. 47
7 Flag of Russia.svg Iuliia Kaplina 85—2. 80
8 Flag of France.svg Capucine Viglione 748. 4010. 34
9 Flag of Japan.svg Miho Nonaka 653. 65—
10 Flag of Indonesia.svg Desak Made Rita Kusuma Dewi 55—4. 55

* = Joint place with another athlete

National teams

The results of the ten most successful countries of the Speed World Cup 2021: [13]

Country names as used by the IFSC

RankNationPoints Salt Lake City Villars
1 Flag of Indonesia.svg Indonesia 5034. 180.02. 323.0
2 Flag of Poland.svg Poland4472. 267.03. 180.0
3Flag of the United States.svg United States396.81. 276.05. 120.8
4 Flag of Russia.svg Russia384—1. 384.0
5Flag of France.svg France3403. 207.04. 133.0
6 Flag of Japan.svg 140.555. 139.5515. 1.0
7 Flag of Italy.svg Italy132.57. 75.07. 57.5
8 Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine 1306. 95.010. 35.0
9 Flag of Austria.svg Austria101.88. 63.99. 37.9
10 Flag of Germany.svg 85.859. 63.012. 22.85

Salt Lake City, United States (May, 28–30)

Men

38 men attended the event. [14]

Kiromal Katibin of Indonesia set a world record time of 5.258 seconds in qualifying, a record that was broken the same day by fellow Indonesian, Veddriq Leonardo, who hit the buzzer at 5.20 in the final run against Katibin. Poland's Marcin Dzieński placed third after beating American John Brosler in the small final. [15] [16]

RankNameQual.1/81/41/2SmallFinal
Gold medal icon.svg Flag of Indonesia.svg Veddriq Leonardo 5.375.555.425.385.20
Silver medal icon.svg Flag of Indonesia.svg Kiromal Katibin 5.255.49wildcard5.35fall
Bronze medal icon.svg Flag of Poland.svg Marcin Dzieński 5.906.225.885.775.84
4 Flag of the United States.svg John Brosler 5.605.725.985.766.89
5 Flag of the United States.svg Merritt Ernsberger 6.197.826.13
6 Flag of Japan.svg Jun Yasukawa 6.2536.186.23
7 Flag of France.svg Pierre Rebreyend 6.145.94FS
8 Flag of Ukraine.svg Yaroslav Tkach 6.176.50fall
9 Flag of Italy.svg Ludovico Fossali 6.095.95
10 Flag of France.svg Guillaume Moro 6.366.12
11 Flag of France.svg Mickaël Mawem 6.286.79
12 Flag of the United States.svg Michael Finn-Henry6.2557.79
13 Flag of Italy.svg Gian Luca Zodda 6.067.88
14 Flag of Ukraine.svg Kostiantyn Pavlenko 6.028.28
15 Flag of Ecuador.svg Carlos Granja 6.038.73
16 Flag of Germany.svg Linus Bader 6.3211.09

Women

24 women attended the event. [17]

Poland's Aleksandra Mirosław took the win after winning a tight race against the United States' Emma Hunt who took second place. A non-speed-specialist Japan's Miho Nonaka placed third after beating Poland's Patrycja Chudziak in the small final. [15] [16]

RankNameQual.1/81/41/2SmallFinal
Gold medal icon.svg Flag of Poland.svg Aleksandra Mirosław 7.207.837.597.407.38
Silver medal icon.svg Flag of the United States.svg Emma Hunt 7.527.617.627.777.53
Bronze medal icon.svg Flag of Japan.svg Miho Nonaka 8.588.508.208.368.95
4 Flag of Poland.svg Patrycja Chudziak 8.288.168.188.3710.40
5 Flag of France.svg Anouck Jaubert 8.498.167.78
6 Flag of Poland.svg Natalia Kalucka 7.689.598.48
7 Flag of Austria.svg Alexandra Elmer 8.549.008.63
8 Flag of France.svg Capucine Viglione 7.947.8710.58
9 Flag of Germany.svg Franziska Ritter 8.338.52
10 Flag of the United States.svg Callie Close 8.728.70
11 Flag of Ukraine.svg Tetiana Kolkotina 8.688.95
12 Flag of the United States.svg Brooke Raboutou 9.369.55
13 Flag of Japan.svg Akiyo Noguchi 9.1210.20
14 Flag of the United States.svg Kyra Condie 8.4310.82
15 Flag of Slovenia.svg Janja Garnbret 8.3614.47
16 Flag of Austria.svg Laura Stöckler 8.7714.94

Villars, Switzerland (July, 1–3)

Men

51 men attended the event. [18]

Indonesia's Veddriq Leonardo claimed his second consecutive win after beating Russia's Dmitrii Timofeev in the final race. Leonardo's teammate, Kiromal Katibin placed third after beating Russia's Vladislav Deulin in the small final. [19]

RankNameQual.1/81/41/2SmallFinal
Gold medal icon.svg Flag of Indonesia.svg Veddriq Leonardo 5.525.505.425.355.32
Silver medal icon.svg Flag of Russia.svg Dmitrii Timofeev 5.6226.055.645.487.35
Bronze medal icon.svg Flag of Indonesia.svg Kiromal Katibin 5.485.355.316.075.30
4 Flag of Russia.svg Vladislav Deulin 5.7565.675.625.515.38
5 Flag of Iran.svg Mehdi Alipour Shenazandifard 5.7346.785.68
6 Flag of Russia.svg Aleksandr Shikov 5.676.075.72
7 Flag of Indonesia.svg Alfian Muhammad Fajri 5.7245.606.13
8 Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Rishat Khaibullin 5.7285.537.73
9 Flag of Indonesia.svg Aspar Jaelolo 5.7265.72
10 Flag of Russia.svg Sergey Rukin 5.775.78
11 Flag of Poland.svg Marcin Dzieński 5.715.80
12 Flag of Iran.svg Reza Alipour Shenazandifard 5.545.81
13 Flag of the United States.svg John Brosler 5.7576.11
14 Flag of the United States.svg Noah Bratschi 5.7396.36
15 Flag of Russia.svg Lev Rudatskiy 5.6257.91
16 Flag of Italy.svg Gian Luca Zodda 5.7299.90

Women

40 women attended the event. [20]

Russia's Ekaterina Barashchuk took her first World Cup gold medal after outracing her teammate and current world record holder Iuliia Kaplina in the final race. Poland's Patrycja Chudziak took third place after beating Indonesia's Desak Made Rita Kusuma Dewi in the small final. [19]

RankNameQual.1/81/41/2SmallFinal
Gold medal icon.svg Flag of Russia.svg Ekaterina Barashchuk 7.617.597.287.307.30
Silver medal icon.svg Flag of Russia.svg Iuliia Kaplina 7.017.317.177.178.39
Bronze medal icon.svg Flag of Poland.svg Patrycja Chudziak 7.567.607.427.507.73
4 Flag of Indonesia.svg Desak Made Rita Kusuma Dewi 7.347.337.02fall10.38
5 Flag of the United States.svg Emma Hunt 7.727.437.19
6 Flag of Poland.svg Natalia Kalucka 7.288.297.47
7 Flag of France.svg Anouck Jaubert 7.49wildcard7.52
8 Flag of Indonesia.svg Rajiah Sallsabillah 7.247.19fall
9 Flag of Poland.svg Anna Brozek 7.847.61
10 Flag of France.svg Capucine Viglione 8.007.68
11 Flag of Italy.svg Giulia Randi 7.9127.87
12 Flag of France.svg Manon Lebon 8.148.00
13 Flag of Slovenia.svg Janja Garnbret 7.9168.01
14 Flag of Austria.svg Laura Stöckler 8.078.57
15 Flag of Russia.svg Elena Timofeeva 8.1710.47
16 Flag of Indonesia.svg Nurul Iqamah 7.918FS

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