IFSC Climbing World Championships
The IFSC Climbing World Championships are the biennial world championships for competition climbing organized by the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC). This event determines the male and female world champions in the three disciplines of sport climbing: lead climbing, bouldering, and 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.[1][2][3][4]
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The first event was organized in Frankfurt in 1991.
History
Creation and organisers
In 1991, the Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme (UIAA) organized the first climbing championships. The International Council for Competition Climbing (ICC) was created in 1997 as an internal body of the UIAA to take charge of competitions.[5]
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.[1][2][3] In 2018, a specific combined event was included which the six climbers with highest overall ranking[6][7] 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 will be 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.
Paraclimbing was introduced at the 2012 World Championships, but from 2019 it became its own championship, the IFSC Paraclimbing World Championships.
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
Edition | Year | Location | Date(s) | Disciplines | Athletes | Nations | Website | Notes | |||||
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number | lead | speed | boulder | overall | para | ||||||||
1 | 1991 | 2 October | 2 | • | • | 110 | 22 | [8] | |||||
2 | 1993 | 30 April | 2 | • | • | 127 | 23 | [9] | |||||
3 | 1995 | 6 May | 2 | • | • | 135 | 24 | [10] | |||||
4 | 1997 | 1 February | 2 | • | • | 153 | 26 | [11] | |||||
5 | 1999 | 3 December | 2 | • | • | 180 | 30 | [12] | |||||
6 | 2001 | 5–8 September | 3 | • | • | • | 198 | 25 | [13] | ||||
7 | 2003 | 9–13 July | 3 | • | • | • | 241 | 34 | [14] | ||||
8 | 2005 | 1–5 July | 3 | • | • | • | 318 | 51 | [15] | ||||
9 | 2007 | 17–23 September | 3 | • | • | • | 302 | 50 | [16] | ||||
10 | 2009 | 30 June – 5 July | 4 | • | • | • | 219 | 44 | [17] | ||||
11 | 2011 | 15–24 July | 4 | • | • | • | • | 374 | 56 | [18] | |||
12 | 2012 | 12–16 September | 5 | • | • | • | • | • | 331 | 56 | [19][1] | ||
13 | 2014 | 21–23 August | 1 | • | 509 | 52 | [20][2] | ||||||
8–14 September | 4 | • | • | • | • | ||||||||
14 | 2016 | 14–18 September | 5 | • | • | • | • | • | 533 | 53 | [21][3][22] | ||
15 | 2018 | 6–16 September | 5 | • | • | • | • | • | 834 | 58 | [23][4] | ||
16 | 2019 | 16–17 July | 1 | • | |||||||||
11–21 August | 4 | • | • | • | • | 253 | 39 | [24][25] | |||||
17 | 2021 | ? |
Medal table
As of 2019 (Medals from Paraclimbing are not included in the table)[27]
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | 16 | 12 | 24 | 52 | |
2 | 12 | 14 | 16 | 42 | |
3 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 25 | |
4 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 21 | |
5 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 18 | |
6 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 20 | |
7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 9 | |
8 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 | |
9 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 18 | |
10 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 16 | |
11 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 8 | |
12 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 9 | |
13 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | |
14 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 10 | |
15 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 8 | |
16 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 8 | |
17 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 13 | |
18 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
19 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
21 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
22 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
Totals (23 nations) | 99 | 100 | 101 | 300 |
Men's Results
Lead
Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1991 | |||
1993 | |||
1995 | |||
1997 | |||
1999 | |||
2001 | |||
2003 | |||
2005 | |||
2007 | |||
2009 | |||
2011 | |||
2012 | |||
2014 | |||
2016 | |||
2018 | |||
2019 |
Bouldering
Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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2001 | |||
2003 | |||
2005 | |||
2007 | |||
2009 | |||
2011 | |||
2012 | |||
2014 | |||
2016 | |||
2018 | |||
2019 |
Speed
Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1991 | |||
1993 | |||
1995 | |||
1997 | |||
1999 | |||
2001 | |||
2003 | |||
2005 | |||
2007 | |||
2009 (10 m) | |||
2009 (15 m)[28] | |||
2011 | |||
2012 | |||
2014 | |||
2016 | |||
2018 | |||
2019 |
Combined
Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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2012[1] | |||
2014[2] | |||
2016[3][22] | |||
2018[4] | |||
2019 |
Women's Results
Lead
Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1991 | |||
1993 | |||
1995 | |||
1997 | |||
1999 | |||
2001 | |||
2003 | |||
2005 | |||
2007 | |||
2009 | |||
2011 | |||
2012 | |||
2014 | |||
2016 | |||
2018 | |||
2019 |
Bouldering
Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
2001 | |||
2003 | |||
2005 | |||
2007 | |||
2009 | |||
2011 | |||
2012 | |||
2014 | |||
2016 | |||
2018 | |||
2019 |
Speed
Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
1991 | |||
1993 | |||
1995 | |||
1997 | |||
1999 | |||
2001 | |||
2003 | |||
2005 | |||
2007 | |||
2009 (10 m) | |||
2009 (15 m) | |||
2011 | |||
2012 | |||
2014 | |||
2016 | |||
2018 | |||
2019 |
Combined
Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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2012 | |||
2014[2] | |||
2016[3][22] | |||
2018[4] | |||
2019 |
See also
References
- "IFSC Climbing World Championship 2012 – Overall rankings" (PDF). EGroupware@ifsc-climbing.org. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
- "IFSC Climbing World Championship 2014 – Combined rankings". IFSC. Archived from the original on 18 September 2018. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
- "IFSC Climbing World Championship 2016 – Overall rankings" (PDF). IFSC. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
- "IFSC Climbing World Championship 2018 – Combined results". IFSC. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
- "Climbing Competitions' History". ifsc-climbing.org. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
- "2018 World Championships – Combined general result – Men". IFSC. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
- "2018 World Championships – Combined general result – Women". IFSC. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
- "UIAA World Championship – Frankfurt 1991". ifsc-climbing.org. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
- "UIAA World Championship – Innsbruck 1993". ifsc-climbing.org. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
- "UIAA World Championship – Genève 1995". ifsc-climbing.org. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
- "UIAA World Championship – Paris 1997". ifsc-climbing.org. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
- "UIAA World Championship – Birmingham (GBR) 1999". ifsc-climbing.org. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
- "UIAA World Championship – Winterthur (SUI) 2001". ifsc-climbing.org. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
- "UIAA Worldchampionship – Chamonix (FRA) 2003". ifsc-climbing.org. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
- "UIAA World Championship – Munich (GER) 2005". ifsc-climbing.org. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
- "IFSC Climbing World Championship (L + B + S) – Aviles (ESP) 2007". ifsc-climbing.org. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
- "IFSC Climbing World Championships – Qinghai (CHN) 2009". ifsc-climbing.org. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
- "IFSC Climbing World Championships – Arco (ITA) 2011". ifsc-climbing.org. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
- "IFSC Climbing World Championship – Paris (FRA) 2012". ifsc-climbing.org. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
- http://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php/world-competition/world-championships
- "IFSC Climbing World Championship 2016". IFSC. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
- "IFSC Climbing World Championship 2016 – Overall rankings" (PDF). EGroupware@ifsc-climbing.org. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
- "IFSC Climbing World Championship 2018". IFSC. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
- "IFSC Climbing World Championships – Hachioji (JPN) 2019". ifsc-climbing.org. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
- "IFSC Climbing World Championships Combined – Hachioji (JPN) 2019". ifsc-climbing.org. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
- "IFSC Plenary Assembly 2019 – A full recap". IFSC. 16 March 2019. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
- fr:Championnats du monde d'escalade
- "IFSC Climbing World Championships – Qinghai (CHN) 2009 – 15 m Speed".
External links
- "Calendar of IFSC competitions". www.ifsc-climbing.org.
- "IFSC Rules". www.ifsc-climbing.org.