BERN, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) — Tokyo Olympic champion Janja Garnbret booked her berth to Paris 2024 as she took the ladies’s boulder & lead World Championships title right here on Saturday.
The championships served as the primary qualification occasion of sport climbing for the Paris Olympics, the place two competitions will crown their very own champion. One can be a mixed competitors of bouldering and lead occasions, and the opposite one will solely characteristic a pace occasion.
In Bern, Slovenian Garnbret constructed a lead within the boulder spherical and secured her Olympic return with one other stable lead efficiency, claiming her second gold medal after the ladies’s boulder final Saturday.
“I felt so composed today actually, I was climbing the lead route flawlessly, and I am just incredibly happy right now that I have qualified,” stated Garnbret after the competitors.
“Even though I have qualified once before, you don’t get tired of this feeling of qualifying for an Olympics. So, my second Olympics – here we go,” she added.
Austria’s Jessica Pilz and Japan’s Ai Mori joined Garnbret on the rostrum, taking one other two tickets to Paris.
The males’s boulder & lead Olympic quota locations went to Austria’s Jakob Schubert, Colin Duffy of the United States, and Japanese veteran Narasaki Tomoa, because the three shared the medals.
In the pace occasions, the present world No. 1 climber Long Jinbao secured a berth to Paris for China with a silver medal within the males’s ultimate, the place Matteo Zurloni of Italy took his first world championships title in his first senior season after Long dedicated a false begin.
“I’m so happy to get the ticket. I want to thank my nation for being so supportive. I’m so excited now and will train hard to get a good result in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games,” stated Long earlier than the award ceremony.
Indonesia’s Desak Made Rita Kusuma Dewi claimed her first world title in a good ultimate match-up in opposition to American Emma Hunt. The duo additionally acquired the quota locations for girls’s pace in Paris.