SINT ROCK BOULDER CONTEST
The bouldering contest will be a star challenge as well, especially since competing in the the Sint Roc Boulder Contest are, quite simply, the very best in the world. The current leaders of the world ranking are the men to beat: Austrian Killan Fischhuber, Russian Rustam Gelmanov and Italian
Gabriele Moroni.
They will be joined by the recently crowned World Champion Alexey Rubtsov and Lukas Preti from Italy. The bouldering roulette in Arco will also be played by ace Frenchman Jerome Meyer who, at 30 years of age, will defend the "old guard" by searcing for victory. The women will attempt to do just the same, starting with the recently crowned World Champion Yulia Abramchuk from Russia, Anna Stöhr from Austria and Akiro Noguchi from Japan. They will be joined by the 20 year old American revelation Alex Johnson and Sara Morandi, competing in front of her home crowd.
SPEED
The climbing sprint, or rather the parallel gala will see the fastest climbers in the world ascend like lightening. All will attempt to beat the amazing record set in China during the recent World Championships: 15 vertical meters in 6:64 for the men and 9:04 for the women. This is what calibre sprinters such as Sergey Synitsin, Libor Hroza, Csaba Komondy and Jedrzej Komosinsky dream of, as do their collegues Anna Stenkovaya, Valentina Yurina and Ksenia Alexeeva. The Italian dreams are fuelled by Lucas Preti, the only athlete taking part in the double undertaking bouldering/speed, Michel Sirotti and Jessica Morandi.
ARCO ROCK LEGENDS, THE SPORT CLIMBING OSCARS
Rock Master will take place on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 September at the Arco Climbing Stadium but not before the fourth edition of Arco Rock Legends, scheduled for 21.00 on Friday 4 September at the Casinò di Arco. The Salewa Rock Award (for single pitches at the crag or bouldering) and the La Sportiva Competition Award (for the best competition climber) will be contended by an exceptional 5 climbers and 3 athletes, chosen by a select Jury comprised of 19 of the most authoritative specialised climbing magazines.
The nominations for the Salewa Rock Award went to the untiring Dani Andrada from Spain, the German ace Markus Bock, the legendary 16 year old from the Czech Republic Adam Ondra (winner of the prize in 2008), Chris Sharma from America and for all the King of climbing and to Maja Vidmar from Slovenia, winner of last season's La Sportiva Competition Award. The nominations for this prize have gone to the Austrian dream team comprised of the young star Johanna Ernst and the "King" and "Queen" of bouldering, Kilian Fischhuber and Anna Stöhr.
As if to say, on the Arco Rock Legends stage, just like on the climbing Stadium wall, there will be only the best of the best. It comes as no surprise that the evening will be hosted as usual by Kay Rush and that the official World Championship logo will be introduced during the show. Scheduled to take place in Arco in 2011, the exceptional testimonial for this world-class event is Luisa Iovane, the Italian competition climber who represents the history of sport climbing and its competitions. The evening will be crowned by another world-class guest, Jerry Moffatt from England who represents a true climbing legend of the 1980's and '90's.
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