2008 IFSC Climbing World Cup

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2008 IFSC Climbing World Cup
Location	Hall, Austria Trento, Italy Réunion, France Grindelwald, Switzerland Vail, United States Fiera di Primiero, Italy Qinghai, China Montauban, France Chamonix, France , Italy Bern, Switzerland Imst, Austria Puurs, Belgium Moscow, Russia Kranj, Slovenia
Date	18 April – 16 November 2008
Champions
Men	() Kilian Fischhuber () () (C) David Lama
Women	(B) Anna Stöhr (L) Johanna Ernst (S) (C) Akiyo Noguchi
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The 2008 IFSC Climbing World Cup was held in 15 locations. Bouldering competitions were held in 7 locations, lead in 6 locations, and speed in 6 locations. The season began on 18 April in Hall, Austria and concluded on 16 November in Kranj, Slovenia.

The top 3 in each competition received medals, and the overall winners were awarded trophies. At the end of the season an overall ranking was determined based upon points, which athletes were awarded for finishing in the top 30 of each individual event.

The winners for bouldering were Kilian Fischhuber and Anna Stöhr, for lead and Johanna Ernst, for speed and , and for combined David Lama and Akiyo Noguchi, men and women respectively. The National Team for bouldering was Austria, for lead Austria, and for speed Russian Federation.

Highlights of the season[]

In bouldering, at the World Cup in Moscow, in the women's final, there were three athletes who flashed all 4 boulders ( of Austria, and both of Slovenia), however of Austria was the only one who flashed all boulders in the competition (qualification, semifinal, final) and thus taking the win. At the end of the season, Austrian athletes, Kilian Fischhuber and Anna Stöhr clinched the overall titles of the season for men and women respectively, making it double bouldering titles for Austria.

In lead climbing, Johanna Ernst of Austria, in her first year of eligibility to compete in the World Cup circuit, made her debut in bouldering in Hall, Austria. Then she competed in lead climbing and won 3 out of 6 Lead World Cups and became the overall women's lead climbing winner of the season.

Overview[]

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No.	Location	D	G	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1	Hall 18–19 April 2008	B	M	Kilian Fischhuber 3t5 3b5	Dmitrii Sharafutdinov 2t2 2b2	Daniel Woods 2t4 3b4
			W	Anna Stöhr 3t3 4b8	3t8 4b9	2t2 4b5
2	Trento 27 April 2008	S	M	12.580	13.590	Manuel Escobar 13.130
			W	21.570	23.320	20.850
3	Réunion 2–3 May 2008	B	M	David Lama 4t9 4b5	Kilian Fischhuber 4t9 4b9	4t9 4b9
			W	Anna Stöhr 4t6 4b5	Akiyo Noguchi 4t10 4b8	3t5 4b8
4	Grindelwald 30–31 May 2008	B	M	Dmitrii Sharafutdinov 2t5 4b9	Kilian Fischhuber 2t6 3b6	David Lama 1t1 3b3
			W	Anna Stöhr 3t11 4b8	1t1 4b8	Akiyo Noguchi 1t2 4b14
5	Vail 6–7 June 2008	B	M	Kilian Fischhuber 2t2 4b4	2t2 4b5	Paul Robinson 1t1 4b5
			W	Alex Johnson 2t5 4b7	2t7 4b8	Anna Stöhr 2t7 4b10
6	Fiera di Primiero 13–14 June 2008	B	M	David Lama 3t3 4b6	Kilian Fischhuber 3t5 3b3	Sean McColl 3t7 4b6
			W	Anna Stöhr 4t5 4b4	3t4 4b5	2t3 3b3
7	Qinghai 27–28 June 2008	L	M	Tomás Mrázek 47	Jakob Schubert 41-	Sachi Amma 38-
			W	Johanna Ernst Top	43+	42-
		S	M	7.350	8.480	8.220
			W	10.630	13.060	11.750
8	Montauban 4–5 July 2008	B	M	Dmitrii Sharafutdinov 3t4 4b5	2t2 4b4	David Lama 2t4 4b7
			W	Akiyo Noguchi 4t5 4b5	4t6 4b5	3t4 3b4
9	Chamonix 12–13 July 2008	L	M	42-	Sachi Amma 37	35
			W	Johanna Ernst 53	Angela Eiter 43-	Mina Markovic 40
		S	M	7.470	10.440	8.750
			W	11.290	11.870	12.340
10	19–20 July 2008	S	M	17.040	fall	17.110
			W	25.190	27.300	31.360
11	Bern 12–13 September 2008	L	M	Patxi Usobiaga Lakunza 32-	31+	Tomás Mrázek 31
			W	Maja Vidmar 37-	Johanna Ernst 37-	35-
12	Imst 19–20 September 2008	L	M	David Lama 50+	Ramón Julian Puigblanque 50	Sean McColl 41+
			W	Mina Markovic 60	Johanna Ernst 60-	Maja Vidmar 59+
13	Puurs 26–27 September 2008	L	M	Ramón Julian Puigblanque 48-	Tomás Mrázek 46-	41-
			W	Maja Vidmar 52+	Mina Markovic 52+	Johanna Ernst 52
		S	M	16.170	16.250	17.980
			W	25.650	29.360	27.400
14	Moscow 31 October - 2 November 2008	B	M	4t5 4b4	Kilian Fischhuber 3t3 3b3	2t2 4b4
			W	4t4 4b4	4t4 4b4	–
		S	M	16.600	Manuel Escobar 18.540	18.170
			W	27.030	28.870	27.270
15	Kranj 15–16 November 2008	L	M	29	29-	Patxi Usobiaga Lakunza 26-
			W	Johanna Ernst Top	Maja Vidmar 43-	Akiyo Noguchi 36+
OVERALL		B	M	Kilian Fischhuber 520.00	David Lama 375.00	Dmitrii Sharafutdinov 335.00
			W	Anna Stöhr 508.00	Akiyo Noguchi 381.00	378.00
		L	M	380.00	Tomás Mrázek 355.00	Ramón Julian Puigblanque 321.00
			W	Johanna Ernst 460.00	Maja Vidmar 345.00	Mina Markovic 325.00
		S	M	411.00	280.00	273.00
			W	366.00	332.00	327.00
		C	M	David Lama 522.00	489.00	Tomás Mrázek 383.00
			W	Akiyo Noguchi 587.00	Johanna Ernst 507.00	506.00
NATIONAL TEAMS		B	A	Austria 1775	Russian Federation 1452	France 1329
		L	A	Austria 1264	Slovenia 1125	France 1089
		S	A	Russian Federation 1627	Ukraine 1488	People's Republic of China 1294

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