Yana Chereshneva and Adam Ondra are the new Arco Rock Masters

The Russian and the Czech triumph at the 25th Rock Master Climbing event. Thomas Tauporn (GER) and Johanna Ernst (AUT) are silver, ahead of Jakob Schubert (AUT) and Sasha DiGiulian.

Yana Chereshneva 2011 Climbing World Championship has drawn down its curtains today in Arco, northern Italy. After having assigned the Lead, Speed, Boulder and first ever Paraclimbing medals during the past 10 days, a celebration of the 25th anniversary of Rock Master has taken place this afternoon at the Climbing Stadium. The spectacular “Duel' competition crowned Russian Yana Chereshneva and Czech Adam Ondra new Rock Master's gold. The Duel competition is both Lead and Speed, and the top 16 Lead male and female specialists battle it out along two identical Lead routes.

2011 Lead world champions Eiter and Puigblanque were kicked out in quarter finals by German Tauporn and American Digiulian. Among women, the other semifinalists were Austria's Ernst, Russia's Chereshneva and Slovenia's Markovic. In men's, French Romain, vice world champion Jakob Schubert and Adam Ondra made it to the semis.

While Ernst easily got rid of Digiulian, Chereshneva had to work hard to win Markovic. In the final climb, the 21-year old Russian climber flied to the top and defeated Austrian. Sasha Digiulian got bronze.

In men's semis, nothing to do for Romain against Teutonic Tauporn. Austrian Schubert did his best against Ondra, but the Czech wanted gold (at least this one!) at all costs. And eventually grabbed it, Tauporn second and Schubert third.

The national team overall ranking of the 2011 IFSC Climbing World Championship reads Russian Federation first with 191 points, the US second (167 points) and Slovenia third (164 points). Russians won 3 golds with Dmitry Sharafutdinov (boulder men), Maria Krasavina (speed women) and with the Team Speed trio Sinitsyn, Alekseeva, Vaitsekhovsky.

The last combined gold medals (Lead + Boulder + Speed) has been handed today to Adam Ondra and Sasha Digiulian.

Results:

MEN DUEL
01) Ondra Adam (CZE)
02) Tauporn Thomas (GER)
03) Schubert Jakob (AUT)
04) Romain Manuel (FRA)
05) Midtboe Magnus (NOR)
06) Julian Puigblanque Ramón (ESP)
07) Amma Sachi (JPN)
08) Lachat Cédric (SUI)
09) Supper Gauthier (FRA)
10) Min Hyunbin (KOR)
11) Zazulin Evgeny (RUS)
12) Ovchinnikov Evgeny (RUS)
13) Desgranges Romain (FRA)
14) Chernikov Mikhail (RUS)
15) Verhoeven Jorg (NED)
16) McColl Sean (CAN)

WOMEN DUEL
01) Chereshneva Yana (RUS)
02) Ernst Johanna (AUT)
03) DiGiulian Sasha (USA)
04) Markovic Mina (SLO)
05) Kim Jain (KOR)
06) Eiter Angela (AUT)
07) Posch Katharina (AUT)
08) Röck Magdalena (AUT)
09) Schranz Christine (AUT)
10) Kobayashi Yuka (JPN)
11) Ciavaldini Caroline (FRA)
12) Durif Charlotte (FRA)
13) Lavarda Jenny (ITA)
14) Vidmar Maja (SLO)
15) Eyer Alexandra (SUI)
16) Han Seuran (KOR)

MEN – COMBINED
01) Ondra Adam (CZE) 145.00
02) Tauporn Thomas (GER) 84.00
03) Lachat Cédric (SUI) 82.00
04) McColl Sean (CAN) 57.00
05) Midtboe Magnus (NOR) 55.00
06) Becan Klemen (SLO) 26.00
06) Devyaterikov Artyom (KAZ) 26.00
08) Marin Garcia Eduard (ESP) 14.00
09) Ghisolfi Stefano (ITA) 11.00
10) Devyaterikov Nikita (KAZ) 9.00
11) Quinteros Andres (ECU) 4.00
12) Molchanov Alexey (KAZ) 3.00

WOMEN – COMBINED
01) DiGiulian Sasha (USA) 120.00
02) Stöhr Anna (AUT) 102.00
03) Markovic Mina (SLO) 75.00
04) Kuznetsova Tamara (KAZ) 67.00
05) Gros Natalija (SLO) 65.00
06) Eyer Alexandra (SUI) 49.00
07) Johnson Alex (USA) 43.00
08) Lavarda Jenny (ITA) 34.00
09) Bacher Barbara (AUT) 16.00
09) Dufraisse Alizée (FRA) 16.00
09) Pan Xuhua (CHN) 16.00
12) Hafsaas Tina Johnsen (NOR) 12.00
13) Stotz Rebekka (SUI) 7.00
14) Riddle Dana (USA) 6.00
15) Bryakina Anastassiya (KAZ) 5.00

NATIONS
01) Russian Federation, 191
02) United States of America, 167
03) Slovenia, 164
04) Switzerland, 148
05) Czech Republic, 145
06) Korea, 118
07) People's Republic of China, 116
08) Austria, 115
09) Kazakhstan, 108
10) Germany, 84
11) Ukraine, 72
12) Norway, 65
13) Canada, 57
14) Italy, 42
15) Japan, 40
16) Indonesia, 33
17) Islamic Republic of Iran, 28
18) Finland, 24
19) France, 16
20) Spain, 14

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QuelleMario Facchini, Foto: NewsPower.it