New Women’s Speed World Record by YiLing Song
YiLing Song has set a new speed climbing world record of 7.101 seconds in the quarterfinals of the Chongquing World Cup. She went on to win gold. Her record beats 7.32 once held by Iuliia Kaplina and Anouck Jaubert. Yi Ling took first place at the Moscow Speed World Cup two weeks ago.
Slovenian champ Janja Garnbret got a personal best of 9.46, a superb sub-10-second lap. Also under 10 seconds are all-rounders Akiyo Noguchi and Kyra Kondie. Canadian Alannah Yip got 11.152 and finished in 55th.
Canadian Sean McColl set another personal best at 7.111 seconds. Also for men, Kokoro Fujii finished in 24th, but got 6.62, which is a very fast time for a high ranking boulderer. Full results here.
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