Sunday, July 5, 2009

World Champs

This year's World Champions:

Men lead: Patxi Usobiaga Lakunza, ESP












Women lead: Johanna Ernst, AUT












Men bouldering: Alexey Rubtsov, RUS












Women bouldering: Yulia Abramchuk, RUS












Men speed: Qixin Zhong, CHN












Women speed: Cuilian He, CHN











Photos: Björn Pohl, Mountain.ru, Desnivel and IFSC-Climbing

4 comments:

Tim Hatch said...

Alexie Rubtsov looks remarkably like Guillame Glaron Mondet (FRA) ;-)

Björn Pohl said...

Ah... thanks Tim. It was tagged as Alexey R, but, obviously, you're right. I'm not sure the new photo is correct either, but at least it's a Russian;) If anyone has a decent photo of the man, please share it!

Tim Hatch said...

From that angle it could be any of Alexei Rubtsov, Rustam Gelmanov or Dmitri Sharafudtinov! Perhaps this explains the success of the Russian Team - Cloning Technology?

(I think it is Alexei)

Tim Hatch said...

Bjorn - There are some reasonable pictures on ukclimbing.com (in turn sourced from mountain.ru)