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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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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