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Ontario Youth Bouldering Provincials This Weekend

The Ontario Climbing Federation (OCF) Ontario Youth Bouldering Provincials will be taking place this weekend at Boulderz Climbing Centre.

Lucas Uchida. Photo Shane Murdoch
Lucas Uchida. Photo Shane Murdoch

The popular Etobicoke climbing gym will be hosting one of the biggest youth competitions to date. Over 170 climbers have registered to compete on Sat. Dec. 12.

Among the nearly 200 climbers, a number of top youth climbers will be at the event, including Lucas Uchida, Cat Carkner, Zach Richardson, Bronwen Karnis, Olivia and Ethan Wyett, Beth Vince, Nathan Smith and Courtney Bellaeau. They are only a handful of the dozens of regular faces at Ontario competitions.

On Nov. 21, an OCF youth competition took place at The Hub. It was the largest in youth comp in Canadian history with 185 climbers. Lucas Uchida and Beth Vince won for Juniors. For more results, visit here.

There is also a Tour de Bloc at the University of Alberta this weekend, which will be live-streamed on Gripped.com.

Here is the running order for qualifiers at the OCF Youth Comp:

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