Sport & Technical Commissions

The IFSC Technical Commissions are established in the IFSC Statutes, article 36.

Sport Commissions:
• Events
• Development
• Coaches

Technical Commissions
• Rules
• Judges
• Routesetters
• Sport Equipment

The Sport and Technical Commissions are formed by the Executive Board. Each Sport Commission shall have one Athletes’ Representative appointed by the Athletes’ Commission. The Chairperson of each Sport Commission is appointed by the Executive Board. Mandate and regulations of the Sport and Technical Commissions are defined in the relevant document approved by the Executive Board.

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Judges' Commission

2021-2025

NamePositionCountry
Stanley Yeo
Chair

Singapore

Johannes Altner
Vice Chair

Germany

Bruce Mitchell
Member

United States

Claudia Kreuscher
Member

Austria

Cosme Mejia
Member

Ecuador

David Mora
Member

Spain

Evgeniy Levin
Suspended

Russia

Ole Morten Olsen
Member

Norway

Paul Ledet
Member

Canada

Sammy Yick
Member

Hong Kong, China

Purpose

  • To develop and maintain the highest standards in judging IFSC Sport Climbing competitions in all disciplines and categories.
  • To develop, improve and standardise a career path for judges.

Activities

  • To oversee the annual evaluation of judges based on experience and peer reports.
  • To update the annual list of active judges and to monitor the quality of international Jury Presidents and Judges.
  • To coordinate with the Routesetters Commission and Technical Delegates and to propose nominations for IFSC Jury Presidents and IFSC Judges to officiate IFSC events.
  • To continuously improve the standard of judging at IFSC events by reporting to the Sport Department and making recommendations.
  • To oversee the running of courses aimed at developing new judges following IFSC guidelines and using the most modern educational techniques and methods.

Coaches' Commission

2021-2025

NamePositionCountry
Pavlos Georgiades
Chair

Cyprus

Emma Hawke
Vice Chair

Sweden

Aukje van Weert
Member

Netherlands

Christopher Smolkovic
Member

Switzerland

Daniel Serman
Member

Chile

Ekaterina Deulina
Suspended

Russia

Jay Koh
Member

Singapore

Jeff Thomson
Member

Canada

Josh Larson
Member

United States

Kilian Fischhuber
Member

Austria

Marco Jubes
Member

Belgium

Mateuzs Miroslav
Member

Poland

Yoshiko Nishitani
Member

Japan

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Purpose

  • To act as a centre of excellence in the coaching field.
  • To represent coaches globally and provide support to regions to develop sustainable coaching education.
  • To promote a culture of integrity during competitions, resisting doping, cheating, fraud, manipulation or corruption.

Activities

To collect proposals from coaches and make recommendations to other technical commissions for improvements of all Sport Climbing disciplines.

Rules Commission

2021-2025

NamePositionCountry
François Leonardon
Chair

France

Tim Hatch
Vice Chair

Great Britain

Cristiano Fossali
Member

Italy

Lumir Navrat
Member

Czech Republic

Matt Ornes
Member

United States

Naoto Hakamada
Member

Japan

Nelson Lam
Member

New Zealand

Nicki Horak
Member

Norway

Paul Hughes
Member

Canada

Philipp Bannasch
Member

Germany

Quim Hernandez
Member

Spain

Werner Gaechter
Member

Austria

Ying Cheng
Member

China

Purpose

The Rules Commission is responsible for maintaining and updating the official international rules of Sport Climbing.

Activities

  • To analyse the requirement for improvement of all Sport Climbing disciplines and to consider proposals received by other Technical Commissions, officials, and IFSC staff.
  • To identify proposals with impact on other Technical Commissions’ work and bring those for discussion to the Sport Department Management Committee.
  • To make recommendations to the Executive Board regarding Rules changes.

Events Commission

Purpose

  • To support and advise all IFSC Departments on IFSC events with regards to the venue, technical requirements, safety of climbers and organisation of the events
  • To investigate and recommend on the implementation of the official sport equipment.
NamePositionCountry
MARC NORMAN
Chair

United States

JULIA PINGGERA
Vice Chair

Austria

Sebastian POWELL
Member

Canada

EMILIE GHEUX
Member

France

DAVIDE MANZONI
Member

Italy

EVGENIY CHERNYSHEV
Suspended

Russia

RICO SCHUMANN
Member

Germany

Sandro PFISTER
Member

Switzerland

LI GUO WEI
Member

China

RouteSetters' Commission

2021-2025

NamePositionCountry
Percy Bishton
Chair

Great Britain

Adam Pustelnik
Vice Chair

Poland

Anna Gallyamova
Suspended

Russia

Artimes Farshadyeganeh
Member

Iran

Chris Danielson
Member

United States

Christian Bindhammer
Member

Germany

Hiroshi Okano
Member

Japan

Jan Zbranek
Member

Germany

Matthias Woitzuck
Member

Austria

Pedro Corral
Member

Ecuador

Remi Samyn
Member

France

Purpose

  • To develop and maintain the highest standards in routesetting IFSC Sport Climbing competitions in all categories.
  • To develop, improve, and standardise a career path for routesetters.

Activities

  • To oversee the annual evaluation of routesetters based on experience and peer reports.
  • To update the annual list of active routesetters and monitor the quality of international routesetters.
  • To coordinate with the Judges Commission and Technical Delegates and to propose nominations for IFSC Chief Routesetters and IFSC Routesetters to officiate IFSC events.
  • To continuously improve the standards of routesetting at IFSC events by reporting to the Sport Department and making recommendations.
  • To support the development of new routesetters following IFSC guidelines.

Development Commission

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Sport Equipment Commission

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