How did the Bests see the World Cup? Ramon, Sandrine, Tomas
W.C. Prague
Ramón: They were boulders, I have to train more on various walls as the French; Sandrine: The routes suited me, because I rather boulder, Prague from Charles Bridges was beautiful, I’ll read CzechClimbing.com; Tomas: The surety was a mistake, now I want more rocks. Read how we talk with the best climbers on the Prague World Cup. ... full story
There were some questions from readers about climbing of Damaris Knorr (GER) at the Prague World Cup competition in difficulty climbing on last Sunday. She did the second attempt after a technical incident and could be originally the 3rd. Then she was the 6th. Therefore we asked for explanation of the President of Jury of World Cup in Prague Martin Joisten. He explained: ... full story
22:00 - The competition, which was won by Ramon Julian Puigblanque (ESP) and Sandrine Levet (FRA) and the Czech favorite Tomas Mrazek was unfortunately the 6th, had excellent atmosphere, the Prague hall in Ruzyne was completely full of fans. The main organizer of the competition the Head of Commission of Czech sport climbing Slavek Vomacko was happy from extra ordinal interest of public and that the responses even from abroad was only positive.
For the symbolic entrance fee (20 ... full story
24:00 - The Sunday (the 2nd day of the competition) continues here.
23:00 - The competition had excelent atmosphere on Saturday. There was more than 300 people as audience, organizers estimated. ... full story
10.10. - The missing Italian group has applied in the end and Italians will be on the competition.
The the team of forrunners is already completed with the ICC delegat from France. Their job is to build climbing routes and it is probably completed by now. The routes were basicaly built by the Czech-Slovak team from Prague - Andrej Chrastina and Jiri Pribil.
9. 10. - This wall was built as a promotion for the World Cup competition and it is located on Vitezne namesti (metro ... full story
Polish climber Pobran wins 3rd comp of Czech Cup in difficulty
Festak 2003 - film festival
Polish climber Marek Pobran from Wroclaw won 3rd competition of Czech Cup in difficulty climbing held on Saturday August 30th during International Mountaineering film festival in town of Teplice nad Metuji in East Bohemia. ... full story
How to climb for World Champion? Tomas Mrazek on video
Chamonix
How to climb for World Champion? Look at pictures from World Championship in difficulty climbing 2003 in Chamonix (France) and at video of Tomas Mrazek a winner of Championship climbing on final route. ... full story
Weekend winter climbing in Arco, Italy from Prague
There is a tip, how Central European could use low cost flights and extend the climbing season across winter (or for skiing in Dolomites). As an employee I have limited amount of vacation and for other free time I have only weekends. ... full story
International Calender IFSC 2009 - sport climbing of adults.
Provisional but good advice. E.g. in this that it is neccery train hard because next year there will be World Cup in bouldering in nearby Wiena, Austria or lead World Cupn in Brno, Czech Republic etc. ... full story
EYS: Adam Ondra won in Kranj (SLO) and overall series 2008
Czech Adam Ondra won the last competition of European Youth Series 2008 in lead climbing in Kranj, Slovenia, last weekend in his category (B). Among juniors category the best Czech was Martin Stranik, who finish 3rd in Kranj and ended 2nd overall in the series. ... full story
Adam Ondra climbed yesterday another route in the 9a grade: Open Air in Schleier Wasserfall, Austria. He recorded it to his diary on Czechclimbing.com as 9a+. ... full story
Tomas Mrazek at European Championship 2008 on video
UPDATE: another video added
Czech Tomas Mrazek at European Championship 2008 in lead climbing in Paris (FRA) on video: semifinals and finals. ... full story
The last World Cup competition 2008 Kranj (SLO) this weekend
The decision who will win the overall World Cup 2008 in lead climbing will fall this weekend on the last competition in Kranj (Slovenia). Among the women has been already decided, Johanna Ernst (AUT) is sure winner, but among men there are three candidates and Czech favorite Tomas Mrazek is the first of them at the moment. ... full story
Czech kids were successful in Hungary on international climbing competition on October 22-23, 2008 in the town Kiskunfelegyhaza. There took place 5th annual of Darvas cup. ... full story
Czech mountaineering legend Standa Silhan died. The Czech mountaineering union web site informed about it on November 1, 2008. Stanislav Silhan was 53 years old. ... full story
Czech women Silva Rajfova finished on 22nd place as the only Czech representative on World Cup competition in bouldering in Moscow (RUS). The women today´s podium results: 1. Katharina Saurwein (AUT), 2. Natalija Gros (SLO) together with Katja Vidmar (SLO), men: 1. Rustam Gelmanov (RUS), 2. Kilian Fischhuber (AUT), 3. Stanislav Kleshnov (UKR). ... full story
Czech Championship in bouldering 2008 will take place in climbing hall Smichoff, Prague 5 on Saturday December 13. The climbing will be partly on bouldering tower and partly on climbing walls. ... full story
Adam Ondra continues in hard sends in Deverse, south France
Czech young top climber Adam Ondra continues in hard sends in Deverse, Gorge de Loup, Nice area, southern France, our friend Phil Maurel from web nice-climb.com reported. ... full story