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It’s now time for the youth athletes to take their turn in the spotlight at the annual IFSC Climbing Youth World Championships from August 22 to 31. The future stars of Sport Climbing have all gathered at the Iconic Rockmaster Climbing Stadium in Arco, Italy to compete in Bouldering, Lead and Speed for a chance to be crowned the youth world champions of 2019.

After a series of long back-to-back days in the IFSC World Championships 2019 featuring all three Sport Climbing disciplines – Speed, Lead and Boulder – the IFSC is pleased to announce the first group of Olympic qualified athletes in the history of Sport Climbing.

The excitement of the Olympic qualification shaped a thrilling competition with the athletes fighting to the last hold to get a ticket to the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games.

The second to last event of the IFSC Climbing World Championship Hachioji 2019 took place on August 20 with the Women’s Combined Finals. The intense battle for the final women’s gold of the World Championships followed an exhausting day of qualifications where the top 20 athletes from last week’s competitions were whittled down to eight. 

The Combined qualification schedule for the IFSC World Championship Hachioji 2019 has been updated as of August 17th. The new times cover both the women's and men's qualification days. 

The seventh day of the IFSC Climbing World Championships featured Speed Climbing and a final full of fast climbers hoping to set a new world record. The qualifications held some impressively fast times with nine of the women coming in under 8 seconds and ten of the men clocking in under 6 seconds.

The fifth day of the IFSC Climbing World Championships Hachioji 2019 featured the Lead semi-finals and finals. With a lead wall that was marginally shorter than average, the routesetters created some inspiring traverses to make up the distance and push the climbers to their limits.

As the first medals of the IFSC Climbing World Championships 2019 were presented in Hachioji, Japan, this afternoon (13^th August) the IFSC Executive Board came together for their monthly teleconference, discussing developments within the ever-evolving world of Sport Climbing. 

The men’s IFSC Bouldering World Championships proved to be a real battle for the climbers that resulted in very few zones and even fewer tops.

Coming out of a difficult semi-final round, where only four of the twenty competitors managed to complete a route, the first finals round of this year’s World Championship was highly anticipated.

As the IFSC World Championships get underway, the IFSC is pleased to announce that the qualification rounds for each event—Boulder, Lead, Speed and Combined—will be lived-streamed without commentary internationally.

All eyes turn to Tokyo this weekend as the highly anticipated IFSC Climbing World Championships commence in Hachioji, Japan. As the first event in which Sport Climbing athletes will compete to qualify for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, the IFSC Climbing World Championships 2019 are set to secure the highest reach in history to be received by a Sport Climbing event in terms of broadcasting, with a record number of over 20 broadcasters preparing to air the event across the world. Media coverage of the IFSC Climbing World Championships is also set to reach an all-time high in 2019, with over 200 media representatives accredited to attend the event.