maandag 29 augustus 2011

World youth cup Imst Austria 24-28 Aug 2011

Wednesday, August 24, 2011 we left for the Youth World Climbing Championship in Imst Austria.

This year there were climbers from 46 countries. Top climbers from 46 different countries came to compete to be world champion. It was the first time that every continent was represented.. This year, namely South Africa also participated. This year, namely South Africa also participated. It was an experience to see all these climbers from these other countries. . There were a lot of participants. A total of +/-460 and in my category Youth A boys 89.

Thursday, August 25, 2011 was the first qualification route. Ignace was 83 on the startlist so needed a lot of patience. Before I could start climbing it was 17.00 HR . The route was hard as expected. The first part was technically with super small holds . Then a rest at a ring module.Then came the overhanging part with hard moves. Ignace climbed some hard moves and deliberately did not clip the rope to get further. He was completely soured and satisfied that he had given everything. The place in the rankings was also good f 23 ° of 89. In the evening there was the opening ceremony. You can compare this with the opening of the Olympics. Something less spectacular but still worthwhile. All climbers walked per country with a country name sign behind a brass band. There were speeches by the mayor and other important people and the official opening by a climber and judge. We also saw a famous slackliner 10 meters above the ground doing his show.
Friday, August 26, 2011 Ignace had his second qualification route climb around noon. It was beautifully sunny weather with high temperatures. He was motivated, quiet and ready to give everything. The first part went smoothly. A module with a flat hold he climbed. Four moves away, he had his feet back on the flat hold. He felt his foot slipping. He puts his foot better. Then wanted to go further and slipped. Too bad because here he had not given everything. The result was much less 56 °. He dropped in ranking from 23 ° to 39 ° and could forget a place in the semi final where only the best 26 were allowed to participate.

Saturday 27 August 2011. Saturday, August 27, 2011. The weather had changed completely. It was now 13 ° c and it rained the whole morning. The evening was bitter cold to sit and look. Anak Verhoeven and Loic Timmermans qualified for the finals where only the eight best in the world could participate. Anak Verhoeven started hesitantly, then went smoothly up to the roof. The route was difficult to read because there were so many holds. Anak went for it but chose a sequence to hard and fell. After winning the previous European competitions, she had to wait to be world champion . Loïc climbed solid and earned 3 ° place! The Slovenian climber in its category (A) Domen Skofic climbed the qualifications and Final dominantly. He was the only one of the A and Juniors who climbed the route to the top!

donderdag 18 augustus 2011

EYS Imst 2011


Ignace participated at the EYS at Imst in Austria. 14 climbers of Belgium participated .A lot of climbers from outside the European Union where in Imst to prepare themselves for the upcoming World Youth championship 24-28 August 2011. Carl and Manolo went along to support him. Ignace climbed a very good first qualification route. There was a very difficult crux that he climbed .After that he slipped while clipping .He finished 16th of the 46 boys in Cat A male. The second qualification route he hesitated at the first hard crux and finished on 27 place.In total he was 23th .

We watched Anak Verhoeven winning in Cat B Male in a super final and Loic Timmermans placed second in Cat A Male. Congratulations!

After the competition Ignace trained 2 days with the Belgian team on the climbing wall in Imst.