The monthly Executive Board Teleconference in June took place on June 15th. Topics discussed included updates on developments regarding Tokyo 2020, alignment on the Continental Youth Championships and other qualifying events for Buenos Aires and an initial assessment of the applications for the 2018 event Calendar. In addition, Honorary Member Helmut Knabl was appointed to coordinate the Masters and Promotional events calendar.

President Marco Maria Scolaris, Secretary General Debra Garwych and Marketing and Communications Director Anne Fuynel attended the Vail World Cup, hosted in the framework of the GoPro Mountain Games.  Officials met representatives from the United States Olympic Committe.  In addition, the World Cup offered an opportunity for the IFSC delegates to both see the World Cup in the United States and attend several organisational meetings.

Meetings around the World Cups focused on aligning the goals of USA climbing and the IFSC, furthering the development of Sport Climbing in USA, and strengthening relationships between the two organisations. The Vail World Cup has been a consistent event on the IFSC calendar.

Climbing has begun for the Asian Youth Championships 2017 in Singapore!

With a break in the IFSC Bouldering World Cup before the final event in Munich, the rope climbing returns with the first Lead and third Speed events of 2017 at Villars, followed by a rematch in Lead at Chamonix.

The IOC Coordination Commission of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games and local Olympic hopefuls visited the proposed site of the “urban cluster”. Coordination Commission chairman John Coates, expressed his approval for the location and suggested that following the competition, the site could be opened to the public in order to allow them to try the activities.

Sport Climber and 2016 Bouldering World Cup Season winner Tomoa Narasaki joined Mr. Coates to view the proposed site.

The site, suggested to host Sport Climbing and Skateboarding, could also host the newly added discipline of BMX cycling and 3x3 Basketball. All of these sports have a large, young fan base, and opening up the site to youngsters similar to the way done in Nanjing 2014 could help inspire a new generation of athletes. John Coates suggested that there would be no better way to fulfil the Tokyo 2020 vision.

For more, please read the Olympic News here or the Inside the Games article here.

Speed returns and Lead climbing makes its 2017 debut next week in Villars, Switzerland, and members of the media are encouraged to attend the event.

It was Olympic Day on Friday, June 23, and the Sport Climbing community joined in the celebration.

Shauna Coxsey clinched first place in the IFSC Bouldering World Cup season rankings and Jongwon Chon again joined her atop the podium at the sixth IFSC event of 2017 in Navi Mumbai.

As the IFSC continues to grow the organisation is seeking additional staff, and is now accepting applications for the position of Sport Officer. The successful candidate will report to the Sport Director and ensure the different Sport programmes (regulations changes and improvements, consultative groups) are conducted within the defined schedule and in collaboration with the other IFSC stakeholders (e.g. Event Officer, Technical Delegates, Administration Department, etc.).

This is a full-time position is based at the IFSC headquarters in Torino, Italy with travel to events (often at weekends) when necessary. The successful candidate will be fluent in English, IT literate and be able to work independently.

Please click here for a complete job description. Interested candidates should send all application materials to the IFSC Office (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) no later than 13th of July 2017.

The media accreditation process is now open for IFSC Youth World Championships Innsbruck 2017.