Ondra won the European Bouldering Cup in Prague, Adamovská was sixth
Updates: 01.05.2022 21:50
Released: 01.05.2022, 21:50
Prague – Climber Adam Ondra won the European Bouldering Cup in Prague. In the final he defeated three boulders and in the next he had a zone. The Latvian Edvards Gruzitis recorded the same balance, but the Czech favorite needed fewer attempts. The home team was also represented in Letňany in the women’s final, where it took Eliška Adamovská sixth. The international race under the auspices of the IFSC returned to the Czech Republic after five years.
Ondra advanced to the finals from the divided first place, so he climbed last. From the beginning, he showed his excellent formula. The first boulder climbed on the second attempt, during the second he did a successful so-called flash, ie overcoming for the first time. He stuck in the third boulder, but none of the eight finalists made it to the top.
Success in the fourth boulder could have given Ondra a triumph in front of the home crowd. For the first time, it fell just below the top, but the second attempt was already successful and the 29-year-old Czech national team member was happy with more than a thousand fans who arrived for the evening program.
Most of them also saw the women’s finals, in which Adamovská defeated only the final of four boulders, to which she once scored a partial success in the form of a zone. The winner was the Austrian Eva Maria Hammelmüllerová, who had only two tops.
Adamovská got to the finals from the eighth place only after the protest. “I was in ninth place because they wrote me an extra attempt at number one, because I got boulder in theory theoretically. That means I didn’t have limbs on the commas they’re supposed to be on. But they took me off before I was there. she just had to attach it, so they couldn’t count it as an attempt according to the rules, “she described why she wasn’t wrong in the promotion position at first.
The entry to the finals failed. She couldn’t handle the first two problems. At the opening, she was near the zone in one attempt, but she stayed just below it, and she didn’t develop another chance. “I think I should have climbed the number one,” she complained after the race. In the second boulder, she failed again in a dynamic jump when she can’t keep up with the big round catches.
She scored on the third trip for the first time. On the second attempt, she entered the zone, but then her leg slipped and she fell. She didn’t get into the same passage again. In the end, she got a taste when she could first enjoy fighting the final boulder. “I’m very happy about that. They were such bad skin and I had such bad skin that I really don’t understand how I kept it,” the twenty-year-old Czech national team member shook her head.
The two finalists did not reach the top even once, so he won sixth place with a successful conclusion. “I am extremely satisfied or not extremely satisfied, but this is my best result in bouldering,” added the climber, who won the World Cup climbing in difficulty last year. She started bouldering with the vision of the Olympic Games in Paris, where there will be a combination of difficulty and bouldering.