World Cup competition in difficulty climbing, Brno, Czech Republic, 12-13/11/2004:
The Saturday competition continues in new article

19:00 - 26 men and 26 women will continue on Saturday in semifinal. The main favorites are in the game: Tomas Mrazek, Alexandre Chabot and the girls Muriel Sarkany and Angela Eiter.







Photos by Petr Fajkoš

18:00 -  RESULTS - qualification - women and men There are 26 women continuing to Saturdays semifinal. Just 4 women will not continue: 27th Tomanova (SVK), 28th Don (KOR), 29th Glaserova (CZE) and 30th Karesova (CZE). The file also contains the row of starting order in semifinale of men and women.

17:50 - Tonight program ends, we wait for the official results and tomorrow the competition continues from 9:00.

17:40 - Sarkany (BEL) top


Muriel Sarkany

17:34 - Eiter (AUT) top


Angela Eiter


17:28 - Ciavaldini (FRA) 38-

17:22 - Lavarda (ITA) 37-


Jenny Lavarda

17:15 - Eyer (SUI) top

17:09 - Bacher (AUT) 37-

17:02 - Vidmar Maja (SLO) 37-

16:55 - Saurwein (AUT) 36+

16:45 - Martin (FRA) top

16:41 - Levet (FRA) top


Sandrine Levet

16:31 - Shalagina (UKR) top

16:26 - Kobayashi (JPN) 39-

16:19 - Kysilkova (CZE) 38-


Tereza Kysilkova

16:13 - Vidmar Katja(SLO) 37-

16:07 - Raffetseder (AUT) 36

15:53 - Ostapenko (UKR) 36+, (and 10 minut pause for cleaning holds just starts)

15:45 - Kim (KOR) top, the 2nd top on the women route



Kim Ja-In

15:38 - Go (KOR) 36+

15:33 - Cintalova Zuzana (SVK) 27+

15:30 - Lipenska (CZE) 27-

15:25 - Doh (KOR) 23-

15:20 - Chudobova (CZE) 24-

15:17 - Cintalova Katarina (SVK) 24-

15:14 - Glaserova (CZE) 20

15:10 - Kudrova (CZE) 36 -




Nelly Kudrova

15:04 - Hrozova (CZE) 36-


Lucka Hrozova

14:59 - Yaemurd (RUS) top , the first top of the women route.


Ekaterina Yaemurd

14:51 - Tomanova (SVK) 23+



14:48 - Kugler (POL) 26 points

14:42 - The first climbs Eliska Karesova (CZE), she falls under half point of the wall and reaches 20- points.

14:35 -  Start - list - women

14:30 - The observation of women route starts


Observation



14:00 - some more pictures:

Tomas Mrazek


The hall


Alexandre Chabot


The people


The press


TV interview


Blue


The funs


The window


www.czechclimbing.com

13:00 -  RESULTS - qualification - men
Women start qualification at 14:30.

12:40 - List of 26 semifinalists: route A - REIS, VERHOEVEN, FUSELIER, MILLET, PETRENKO, POUVREAU, MRAZEK, DROETTO, BINDHAMMER, VINOKUR, OVTCHINNIKOV, FICHTINGER, BRENNA
route B - SON, REPCIK, LAGNI, ZARDINI, BINDHAMMER, USOBIAGA, CRESPI, CHABOT, KAUROV, SOVA, KIM, PUIGBLANQUE, VALJAVEC

12:21 Chabot (FRA) top B

12:20 Mrazek (CZE) top A


Tomas Mrazek tops route A and Alexandre Chabot in the middle of the route B (photo by Standa)

12:15 Crespi (ITA) top B


Flavio Crespi on th route B (photo by Standa)

12:07 - Usobiaga (ESP) top B

11:03 - Pouvreau (FRA) top A

12:00 - Ramon Julian Puigblanque (ESP) 34 B

11:58 - Petrenko (UKR) top A

11:54 - Bindhammer Christian (GER) top B

11:51 - Millet (FRA) top A

11:47 - Zardini (ITA) top B

11:46 - Fuselier (FRA) top A

11:41 - Lagni (ITA) top B

11:40 - Verhoeven (NED) top A

11:35 - Desgranges (FRA) 36 A

11:33 - Valjavec (SLO) 33- B

11:31 - Vinokur (USA) 39- A

11:25 - Repčík Juraj (SVK) top B



11:24 - Fichtinger (AUT) 38- A

11:18 Ovtchinnikov (RUS) 38 A

11:18 Son (KOR) top B



11:13 - Favresse (BEL) 32 B

11:12 - Brenna (ITA) 37- A

10:55 - Pause for holds cleaning

10:53 - Legrand Yannick (FRA) 26,5- A

10:51 - Sova (SLO) 36- B

10:50 - Bindhammer Andreas (GER) 39- A


Andreas Bindhammer (GER) (photo by Jirka Sika)

10:45 - Goussak (UKR) 28 B

10:44 Reis (AUT) top - the first one who tops A

10:42 Švub (SVK) 26 B

10:39 Mecherzynski-W. (POL) 26 B

10:37 Droetto (ITA) 39-, the best just now. A

10:34 Kim (KOR) - 34 B

10:32 Ito (JPN) - 27- A

10:29 - Zbranek (CZE) 26 B

10:27 - Oliva (CZE) 28- A

10:25 - Hlaváček (CZE) 24 B

10:23 - Dudek (POL) 26- A

10:21 - Penin (ESP) 21- B

10:19 - Roth (USA) 27- A

10:17 - Kaurov (RUS) 36- (the best at the moment) B

10:16 - Fakourmoghadam (Iran) 15 points A

10:12 - Malina (CZE) - the best at the moment (33 points) B
Stranik (CZE) - fell lower (24 points) A


Vasek Malina (CZE) on the route B (photo by Jirka Sika)

10:10 - Look at the actual  Start list men.

10:08 - Hanssens (BEL) fell at the 4th metre (12 points, route B), Mach (POL) ended at the middle of the route A (23,5 points)

12.11. 2004 10:06 - Leitman fell quite soon on then route B (17- points), Volf tried to touch the hold at the middle of the wall on the route A (26+ points).

10:00 - The first climbers starts: Jakub Volf (CZE) on the route A, Marek Leitman (SVK) on the route B.

9:50 - The men routes observation begins. It lasts 6 minutes.



9:30 - First visitors comming, web camera on the czechclimbing.com is on.

9:00 Everything is OK. Climbers are in the isolation, look at the morning picture:



The hall:



8:00 - Opening of isolation.

11.11. 20:00 - The technical meeting. According to the Czech organizers the ICC delegates were very satisfied with the wall.

There are the all favorites in Brno. Tomáš Mrázek (CZE), number one of World Cup 2004, and his largest competitor Alexandre Chabot (FRA) are present in the town.
The competition begins on Friday morning at 9:30 by observation of 1/4 final rout of men, who start at 9:45 am.
Women have observation of 1/4 final route at 14:30 and start climbing at 14:45.
Starting position is according to a ranking the better position in the ranking later position in the start list.
Tomáš Mrázek is the last as the number one.

Pictures from today from the parallel program (pictures of the wall with the routes is not possible to public because of the rules to keep the routes secret for on sight style climbing - photos by Petr Fajkos):







More about preparation of the competition, schedule, starting list and older pictures at an opening articel
Official web site of the competition: www.worldcupclimbing.com