Representative of the IFSC Sport Department attended the 2023 edition of Halls & Walls, the trade fair for the Climbing industry, took place in Friedrichshafen, Germany on 24 and 25 November.

Curtains closed on the NEOM Beach Games 2023, as the NEOM IFSC Masters awarded its final medals in the women’s and men’s Speed events.

New Zealand will have its first country representatives at an Olympic Games Climbing competition as Julian David and Sarah Tetzlaff win the Speed Oceania qualifiers in Melbourne, Australia.

Two more names have been added to the Paris 2024 Boulder & Lead start lists, and they belong to the Australian climbers Oceania Mackenzie and Campbell Harrison.

The Ukrainian flag waved at the top of the podium in NEOM, Saudi Arabia, where the IFSC Masters awarded its second medal in the women’s Boulder event.

The home nation dominated the Oceania qualifier in Melbourne, Australia, with six women and seven men into the final eights of the Boulder & Lead competition and the odds in their favour for Paris 2024 representation.

Olympic qualification is once again in focus this weekend for the IFSC as Melbourne, Australia hosts the Oceania qualifier event where four Paris 2024 tickets will be claimed.

The opening competition day of the NEOM International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) Masters has crowned French talent Mejdi Schalck with the men’s Boulder gold medal, finishing ahead of Latvia’s Edvards Gruzitis and Japan’s Ritsu Kayotani.

The participating sports of the multi-sport European Championships came together in Geneva on Wednesday 22 November to confirm their long-term commitment to the new generation event and discuss how to build on the success of Munich 2022 over the next three editions: 2026, 2030, 2034.

The second edition of the NEOM Beach Games is about to conclude in Saudi Arabia, where some of the best climbers in the Boulder and Speed disciplines have gathered to compete in the NEOM IFSC Masters 2023 – the fifth and conclusive part of a multi-sport festival that also included basketball 3x3, beach soccer, mountain bike, and triathlon, spanning over a period of five weeks: from 21 October to 24 November.

In the final act of the Asian qualifier in Jakarta, Indonesia, China’s Deng Lijuan and Indonesia’s Rahmad Adi Mulyono booked their tickets to Paris 2024 winning the Speed competitions.

Japan’s Anraku Sorato continued his stellar 2023 to secure a ticket to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games winning the men’s Boulder & Lead competition in Jakarta, Indonesia.