2008 IFSC Climbing World Cup

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.

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 Val Daone, Italy Bern, Switzerland Imst, Austria Puurs, Belgium Moscow, Russia Kranj, Slovenia
Date	18 April – 16 November 2008
Champions
Men	(B) Kilian Fischhuber (L) Jorg Verhoeven (S) Evgenii Vaitsekhovskii (C) David Lama
Women	(B) Anna Stöhr (L) Johanna Ernst (S) Edyta Ropek (C) Akiyo Noguchi

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 Jorg Verhoeven and Johanna Ernst, for speed Evgenii Vaitsekhovskii and Edyta Ropek, 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 (Katharina Saurwein of Austria, Natalija Gros and Katja Vidmar both of Slovenia), however Katharina Saurwein 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

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	Yulia Abramchuk 3t8 4b9	Angelica Lind 2t2 4b5
2	Trento 27 April 2008	S	M	Evgenii Vaitsekhovskii 12.580	Sergei Sinitcyn 13.590	Manuel Escobar 13.130
			W	Lucelia Blanco 21.570	Edyta Ropek 23.320	Olena Ryepko 20.850
3	Réunion 2–3 May 2008	B	M	David Lama 4t9 4b5	Kilian Fischhuber 4t9 4b9	Jorg Verhoeven 4t9 4b9
			W	Anna Stöhr 4t6 4b5	Akiyo Noguchi 4t10 4b8	Yulia Abramchuk 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	Charlotte Durif 1t1 4b8	Akiyo Noguchi 1t2 4b14
5	Vail 6–7 June 2008	B	M	Kilian Fischhuber 2t2 4b4	Gabriele Moroni 2t2 4b5	Paul Robinson 1t1 4b5
			W	Alex Johnson 2t5 4b7	Katharina Saurwein 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	Katja Vidmar 3t4 4b5	Yulia Abramchuk 2t3 3b3
7	Qinghai 27–28 June 2008	L	M	Tomáš Mrázek 47	Jakob Schubert 41-	Sachi Amma 38-
			W	Johanna Ernst Top	Natalija Gros 43+	Charlotte Durif 42-
		S	M	QiXin Zhong 7.350	Xiaojie Chen 8.480	Guangpu Li 8.220
			W	Chunhua Li 10.630	Cuifang He 13.060	CuiLian He 11.750
8	Montauban 4–5 July 2008	B	M	Dmitrii Sharafutdinov 3t4 4b5	Rustam Gelmanov 2t2 4b4	David Lama 2t4 4b7
			W	Akiyo Noguchi 4t5 4b5	Yulia Abramchuk 4t6 4b5	Natalija Gros 3t4 3b4
9	Chamonix 12–13 July 2008	L	M	Jorg Verhoeven 42-	Sachi Amma 37	Klemen Becan 35
			W	Johanna Ernst 53	Angela Eiter 43-	Mina Markovič 40
		S	M	QiXin Zhong 7.470	Ning ZHANG 10.440	Maksym Osipov 8.750
			W	Cuifang He 11.290	Chunhua Li 11.870	CuiLian He 12.340
10	Val Daone 19–20 July 2008	S	M	Lukasz Swirk 17.040	Evgenii Vaitsekhovskii fall	Maksym Styenkovyy 17.110
			W	Edyta Ropek 25.190	Svitlana Tuzhylina 27.300	Valentina Yurina 31.360
11	Bern 12–13 September 2008	L	M	Patxi Usobiaga Lakunza 32-	Jorg Verhoeven 31+	Tomáš Mrázek 31
			W	Maja Vidmar 37-	Johanna Ernst 37-	Olga Shalagina 35-
12	Imst 19–20 September 2008	L	M	David Lama 50+	Ramón Julián Puigblanqué 50	Sean McColl 41+
			W	Mina Markovič 60	Johanna Ernst 60-	Maja Vidmar 59+
13	Puurs 26–27 September 2008	L	M	Ramón Julián Puigblanqué 48-	Tomáš Mrázek 46-	Jorg Verhoeven 41-
			W	Maja Vidmar 52+	Mina Markovič 52+	Johanna Ernst 52
		S	M	Leonel De Las Salas 16.170	Evgenii Vaitsekhovskii 16.250	Maksym Styenkovyy 17.980
			W	Svitlana Tuzhylina 25.650	Anna Stenkovaya 29.360	Olena Ryepko 27.400
14	Moscow 31 October – 2 November 2008	B	M	Rustam Gelmanov 4t5 4b4	Kilian Fischhuber 3t3 3b3	Stanislav Kleshnov 2t2 4b4
			W	Katharina Saurwein 4t4 4b4	Natalija Gros Katja Vidmar 4t4 4b4	–
		S	M	Evgenii Vaitsekhovskii 16.600	Manuel Escobar 18.540	Valeriy Vorobyev 18.170
			W	Olena Ryepko 27.030	Edyta Ropek 28.870	Lucelia Blanco 27.270
15	Kranj 15–16 November 2008	L	M	Klemen Becan 29	Jorg Verhoeven 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	Yulia Abramchuk 378.00
		L	M	Jorg Verhoeven 380.00	Tomáš Mrázek 355.00	Ramón Julián Puigblanqué 321.00
			W	Johanna Ernst 460.00	Maja Vidmar 345.00	Mina Markovič 325.00
		S	M	Evgenii Vaitsekhovskii 411.00	Sergei Sinitcyn 280.00	QiXin Zhong 273.00
			W	Edyta Ropek 366.00	Olena Ryepko 332.00	Svitlana Tuzhylina 327.00
		C	M	David Lama 522.00	Jorg Verhoeven 489.00	Tomáš Mrázek 383.00
			W	Akiyo Noguchi 587.00	Johanna Ernst 507.00	Natalija Gros 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