Canadian Madison Fischer Through to Boulder World Cup Semi-Finals

Following an exciting event last weekend in Prague, Czech Republic, the IFSC Boulder World Cup tour moves to Brixen, Italy this weekend from June 9 to 11. Qualifiers were held today, women’s semi-finals and finals will be held tomorrow, and men’s semi-finals and finals will be held on Sunday.

After a successful qualification round this morning, Canadian Madison Fischer is moving on to tomorrow’s women’s semi-final round. She topped topped four of the five qualification problems, with two of her tops being flashes. She placed 8th overall in the semi-finals at the Salt Lake City event a few weeks ago, just missing out on the opportunity to compete in the finals.

Fischer was the only Canadian to qualify for the semi-final round at this weekend’s comp in Brixen. Evangelina Briggs placed 31st and Alannah Yip came in 50th in the qualifiers. Guy McNamee placed 37th, Kindar McNamee 71st, and Sean McColl 75th.

Americans Natalia Grossman, Annie Sanders, Kyra Condie, Ellis Ernsberger, and Colin Duffy are moving through to the semi-finals. Their teammates Cloe Coscoy, Kylie Cullen, Zach Galla, Ross Fulkerson, Dillon Countryman, and Jesse Grupper did not make it past the qualification round. Brooke Raboutou and Sean Bailey did not compete.

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Here are the top 20 women and men from the qualification rounds moving on to semi-finals on Saturday and Sunday:

Women’s Qualification Results

1. Hannah Meul (GER)
2. Stasa Gejo (SRB)
3. Julija Kruder (SLO)
4. Ayala Kerem (ISR)
5. Ocieania Mackenzie (AUS)
6. Madison Fischer (CAN)
7. Anon Matsufuji (JPN)
8. Petra Klingler (SUI)
9. Johanna Farber (AUT)
10. Sandra Hopfensitz (GER)
11. Natalia Grossman (USA)
12. Zhilu Luo (CHN)
13. Chaehyun Seo (KOR)
14. Anastasia Sanders (USA)
15. Ryu Nakagawa (JPN)
16. Lucka Rakovec (SLO)
17. Flavy Cohaut (FRA)
18. Miriam Fogu (ITA)
19. Melody Sekikawa (JPN)
20. Kyra Condie (USA)

Men’s Qualification Results

1. Dohyun Lee (KOR)
2. Sorato Anraku (JPN)
3. Jongwon Chon (KOR)
4. Adam Ondra (CZE)
5. Meichi Narasaki (JPN)
6. Jack MacDougall (GBR)
7. Yoshiyuki Ogata (JPN)
8. Jan-Luca Posch (AUT)
9. Tomoa Narasaki (JPN)
10. Ritsu Kayotani (JPN)
11. Nimrod Marcus (ISR)
12. Leo Favot (FRA)
13. Toby Roberts (GBR)
14. Alberto Gines Lopez (ESP)
15. Ellis Ernsberger (USA)
16. Maximillian Milne (GBR)
17. Yannick Flohe (GER)
18. Anze Peharc (SLO)
19. Colin Duffy (USA)
20. Hamish McArthur (GBR)

Notable athletes sitting out from the Brixen event include France’s Mejdi Schalck, the men’s category leader, Oriane Bertone, the women’s category leader, and Janja Garnbret, who won silver in her return to the World Cup circuit last weekend in Prague.

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The men’s and women’s Brixen semi-finals and finals will be livestreamed on the IFSC’s Youtube Channel. The YouTube livestream schedule is listed below:

Women’s semi-final – Saturday June 10 – 5am EDT (2am PDT)
Women’s final – Saturday June 10 – 2pm EDT (11am PDT)
Men’s semi-final – Sunday June 11 – 5am EDT (2am PDT)
Men’s final – Sunday June 11 – 2pm EDT (11am PDT)

Will Fischer make it through to the finals? Will Grossman win another gold? Will Ondra make podium two weekend’s in a row? We’ll be covering the results so be sure to check back in to Gripped Indoor Climbing for the latest news.