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Anna Stöhr and Kilian Fischhuber are the winners of the second IFSC Bouldering World Cup last Saturday in Millau, France! Only in the finals Austria’s top boulderers racked up their victories in a more than thrilling competition.

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It was a bouldering competition as all climbing fans could dream: the IFSC Bouldering World Cup in Millau was marked by quite some challenging boulder problems and many turnarounds in the ranking lists. High-level climbing was shown from the start - with the result that top boulderers like Momoka oda, Melissa le neve, Sean McColl or Jakob Schubert already dropped out in the semi-finals.

Second stage, second victory for Anna Stöhr

last year’s overall Bouldering World Cup winner anna Stöhr was the lowest to qualify in the women’s final. But with a great performance in the final round the Austrian double world champion worked her way up and went head to head with Britain’s youngster Shauna Coxsey and akiyo noguchi from Japan, second and third after the semi-finals. In the end one attempt at the last boulder problem made the decision – gold number two for anna Stöhr this season, silver and bronze for Shauna Coxsey and akiyo noguchi!

First competition, first victory for Kilian Fischhuber

In the men’s competition reigning world champion Dmitrii Sharafutdinov led the field after the semi-finals in front of surprisingly strong Jorg Verhoeven (made his first Bouldering final since 2008) and Bouldering World Cup winner 2012, rustam gelmanov. But in the finals Kilian Fischhuber, 5th after the semis, got into his stride: In his first competition of the season Austria’s fivefold Bouldering champion was the only one to top out on three final boulder problems and so walked away with the gold medal. Places two and three went to guillaume glairon Mondet who gained three ranks from the semi-finals and Netherland’s Jorg Verhoeven.

after this great competition weekend in France the IFSC Bouldering World Cup is moving on to Austria: Kitzbühel will be the venue of the next World Cup stop on april 26-27! Check out further informations on www.ifsc-climbing.org/

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FINAL ReSuLtS MeN bOuLDeRINgRank Name Nation Final1 Fischhuber Kilian aUt 3t9 3b52 glairon Mondet

guillaumeFra 1t1 4b10

3 Verhoeven Jorg ned 1t1 3b44 ennemoser lukas aUt 1t1 3b75 Sharafutdinov dmitrii rUS 1t1 3b136 gelmanov rustam rUS 1t2 2b6

Link to full results Men:http://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php/world-competi-tion/calendar#!comp=1453&cat=6

FINAL ReSuLtS WOMeN bOuLDeRINgRank Name Nation Final1 Stöhr anna aUt 4t13 4b132 Coxsey Shauna gBr 4t14 4b133 noguchi akiyo JPn 3t7 4b94 Puccio alex USa 3t7 3b75 Wurm Juliane ger 2t3 4b56 Saurwein Katharina aUt 1t5 3b10

Link to full results Women:http://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php/world-competi-tion/calendar#!comp=1453&cat=5

MeN bOuLDeRINgRank Name Nation Points1 Sharafutdinov dmitrii rUS 1512 g. Mondet guillaume Fra 1273 Schubert Jakob aUt 1064 gelmanov rustam rUS 1024 Verhoeven Jorg ned 1026 Fischhuber Kilian aUt 1007 Hori tsukuru JPn 998 Caleyron thomas Fra 759 Baumann Jonas ger 7110 ennemoser lukas aUt 55

WOMeN bOuLDeRINgRank Name Nation Points1 Stöhr anna aUt 2002 Coxsey Shauna gBr 1313 noguchi akiyo JPn 1203 Puccio alex USa 1205 oda Momoka JPn 117

6 Wurm Juliane ger 947 Saurwein Katharina aUt 878 retschy Monika ger 659 leslie-Wujastyk Mina gBr 6210 Shemulinkina tatiana rUS 60

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