Rock Master

Rock Master is an international climbing competition held every year in Arco.

The event takes place in two rounds: the first is an on-sight session and the second is called "after work". The final classification is given by the sum of the two events. On Friday the athletes are given a chance to survey the work route, and the actual climbing takes place on Saturday and Sunday.

History[]

The history of Rock Master is linked to that of the first international races in the history of climbing. In 1985 it was disputed for the first time Sportroccia to Bardonecchia. The following year the event was tied to a stop at the side of the . Right on the wall of the Colodri in 1987, played in the first Rock Master. The following year, the race left the rock and from that moment is played only on artificial in a large open space at the base of Colodri.

Since 1999, in addition to lead climbing, bouldering and speed climbing competitions were also held.

Since 2006, during the event a jury assigns Arco Rock Legends, two awards are like the Oscars of climbing:

• Salewa Rock Award with the athlete had the best performance of single pitch sport climbs and boulder.
• La Sportiva Competition Award for the best athlete who has competed in the previous competition season.

The competition is usually held the first weekend of September, with a few exceptions:

• in 2010 has been brought forward to July as a pre-event of the World Championship of climbing that would take place in 2011. Instead of the usual two rounds (worked and view) a competition was held to only classical view in three rounds: qualifiers, semi-finals and finals.
• in 2011 instead of the Rock Master was held in July at the Arco Climbing World Championship in 2011 . The title of the Rock Master was, however, given the evidence of the Duel, a competition demonstration that took place at the end of the World Championship and attended the first sixteen male and female athletes of the league lead.^[1]

In 2012 the speed test was valid also as the fourth leg of the World Cup speed climbing 2012.^[2]

Winners[]

Lead[]

Year	Male	Female
1987	Stefan Glowacz	Lynn Hill
1988	Stefan Glowacz Patrick Edlinger	Lynn Hill
1989		Lynn Hill
1990	François Legrand	Lynn Hill
1991	Yuji Hirayama	Isabelle Patissier
1992	Stefan Glowacz	Lynn Hill
1993
1994	François Legrand	Robyn Erbesfield
1995
1996		Katie Brown
1997	François Legrand	Katie Brown
1998	François Legrand	Liv Sansoz
1999		Muriel Sarkany
2000		Muriel Sarkany
2001	Tomáš Mrázek Yuji Hirayama	Muriel Sarkany
2002	Alexandre Chabot	Sandrine Levet
2003	Alexandre Chabot	Angela Eiter
2004	Alexandre Chabot	Angela Eiter
2005	Ramón Julián Puigblanque	Angela Eiter
2006	Ramón Julián Puigblanque	Sandrine Levet
2007	Ramón Julián Puigblanque	Angela Eiter
2008	Patxi Usobiaga	Johanna Ernst
2009	Ramón Julián Puigblanque	Angela Eiter
2010	Ramón Julián Puigblanque	Jain Kim
2011	-	-
2012	Ramón Julián Puigblanque	Angela Eiter
2013	Ramón Julián Puigblanque	Mina Markovič

Bouldering[]

Year	Male	Female
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005	Kilian Fischhuber
2006	Nalle Hukkataival	Anna Stöhr
2007		Anna Stöhr
2008	Kilian Fischhuber
2009	Kilian Fischhuber	Alizée Dufraisse
2010		Anna Stöhr
2011	-	-
2012	Dmitrij Šarafutdinov	Alex Puccio
2013		Alex Puccio

Speed[]

Year	Male	Female
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008	Manuel Escobar
2009
2010
2011	-	-
2012
2013
2014		Anouck Jaubert

Duel[]

Year	Male	Female
2011	Adam Ondra
2012	Jakob Schubert
2013	Sean McColl
2014	Sean McColl
2015	Adam Ondra

Arco Rock Legends[]

Year	Salewa Rock Award	La Sportiva Competition Award
2006	Josune Bereziartu	Angela Eiter
2007	Patxi Usobiaga	David Lama
2008	Adam Ondra	Maja Vidmar
2009	Chris Sharma	Kilian Fischhuber
2010	Adam Ondra	Akiyo Noguchi
2011	Adam Ondra	Ramón Julián Puigblanque
2012	Sasha DiGiulian	Anna Stöhr
2013	Adam Ondra	Mina Markovič
2014	Muriel Sarkany
2015	Alexander Megos	Adam Ondra
2016		Mina Markovic
2017	Margo Hayes	Janja Garnbret

References[]

Bibliography[]

• Malfer, Giulio; Stefanello, Vinicio (2005). Rock Master. Nicolodi. ISBN 978-8884471949.

External links[]

• Official site