Shauna and Jongwon Win IFSC Vail World Cup 2017

The fifth IFSC World Cup of the season took place in Vail, Colorado, as the only North American World Cup of the tour.

Shauna Coxsey and Jongwon Chon took top spots with Akiyo Noguchi and Meichi Narasaki rounding off the podium for Females, and Miho Nonaka and Yoshiyuki Ogata for Males.

Congratulations to winners @chonjongwon96 and @shaunacoxsey and all the Vail medallists! An inspiring day of hard #bouldering in front of a packed crowd. Check out the replays and highlights on IFSC YouTube, and stay tuned for finals shots! ? @andywickstrom

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No Canadians made Finals and only Seb Lazure advanced to Semis. Four of the medal winners were from Japan. Chon crushed the Finals and topped all of the final problems. For the women, four topped three of the Finals problems.

Finals Results Male/Female
1. Jongwon Chon / Shauna Coxsey
2. Meichi Narasaki / Akiyo Noguchi
3. Yoshiyuki Ogata / Miho Nonaka
4. Aleksei Rubtsov / Alex Puccio
5. Kokoro Fujii / Katja Kadic
6. Keita Watabe / Petra Klingler

The setters put us to work yesterday at the @gopro Mountain Games World Cup! The problems were hard and the sun was hot. I am disappointed with my result but I was honoured to have earned the opportunity to climb among the worlds best this year. Climbing, like anything, is a process of failure, learning and success. I'll walk away with lessons learned, motivation to keep on trying and an extra scoop (or 2) of ice cream to keep me smiling. • Team Canada is also so incredibly proud of @seblazure for making his career first semi-final!! Can't wait to watch him and the other athletes in the next round today ?? • Thanks for capturing me flailing around upside down on problem number 3 @thecircuitclimbing

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Final results for Canadian Males: Seb Lazure in 13, Jason Holowach in 27, Jesse Taplin in 33, Sean McColl in 39, Jj Mah in 43, Juliean Bourassa-Moreau in 57.

Final results for Canadian Females: Bronwen Karnis in 25, Eva Thompson in 29, Alannah Yip in 33, Allison Vest in 39, Elise Sethna in 49, Em Pellerin in 55.

From here, the World Cup tour heads to Navi Mumbai, India, in two weeks. Find full results here.

Ending the Vail World Cup weekend with a team photo! Thanks to all the athletes for climbing hard, and to Marie Audrey and Eric for taking good care of everyone. And a huge congrats to Seb Lazure for a wonderful performance. Next stop Mumbai #ifscwc #climbing #bouldering #competition #teamcanada #gopromountaingames

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The prep for the Vail World Cup was pretty good this year and physically I felt in tune ? • I couldn't do the power problem in qualis and it cost me semi finals ? • Really crazy to see all the strong Japanese again ?? • ? by @dededenali

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