Speed Climbing and the Olympics: What You Need to Know
Sport climbing is like a vertical track race speed climbers climb hands and feet to roar up the rock face, extending their arms and legs almost 15 vertical meters in just 5 second faster than many spectators can run that distance. Padidiy climbers, as well as bouldering athletes the 400 meter climbers jump, jump, and balance to scale nearly impossible to reach ledges of up to 60 degrees with incredible moves and at alarming speed. Since the first International Sport Climbing Championships were held in Snowbird, Utah, in 1988, climbers have become faster, stronger, and more versatile.
Now, in its second Olympic appearance, sport climbing will have two medal events: speed and combined. They feel a lot like going to your local climbing center with the difficulty turned up to 11. Olympic sport climbing combines puzzle-solving skills, global physical strength, and dizzying heights in the thrilling passion that will thrill the Parisian audience and the Olympic Qualifier Series, where sport climbing will join skateboarding, BMX freestyle, and breaking.
Speed climbing 101: the basics
Here's what you need to know to enjoy and understand one of the most modern sports on the Olympic Games schedule, with the insightful perspective of Libor Hroza, a Czech climber who is following the speed climbers of the Canadian team and coach of Climbing Escalade Canada. The walls are equipped with holds, variously shaped pieces of resin that climbers can use to do the following hold in their hands, throw with their arms, and propel their feet up the wall. There are three types of sport climbing competitions.
In this sport climbing race, climbers compete to see who can reach the top of a 15-meter wall the fastest. According to the rules of the International Federation of Sport Climbing, the wall is inclined at five degrees. Competitors climb this wall while tied to a tight rope from the top. The wall has two similar holds, side by side, and two climbers climb with it at a time. On other occasions, they even compete in a competitive race to determine who will advance to the next winner. Other times, they battle alone against the backdrop of clocks.
Competition format for speed climbing at Paris 2024
The holds on the sport climbing wall remain unchanged: the same holds as any of the events in any competition. This way, athletes can practice their moves as many times as they want and climb at amazing speeds. At the 2023 Climbing World Cup in Seoul, South Korea, Indonesian rider Veddriq Leonardo became the first male climber on the wall in less than five seconds. The initial movement is what plays really well, and then you want to start climbing it, Hroza said. He underestimated what he saw. And what you can read as the bpm increases is that climbers try to eliminate something else their thinking.
Climbers try to enter a state of fluidification they simply execute old-fashioned, repetitive movements. "You don't want to get to the middle and have your brain dance around I have to do this and then that.' You have to let your hands do their thing, 'it has to let you do this body work. According to Hroza, to make the steps the right way to climb the wall, the key is the exit. Through the guise of their starting pistol, the climbers take off from the ground what Hroza claims is "the best hold of the course a combination of explosive leg movement and a powerful arm pull.
Speed climbing at the Olympic Qualifier Series
From there, they try to maintain the rhythm of that initial explosion with a climbing style that's 60% arm-pull and 40% leg-pull, according to Hroza. The result is a complete vertical sprint: the 100m straight line of climbing disciplines. And while on the wall this may be the same height as in speed climbing, it's a much more agile course than what speed climbers overcome in five seconds. The climbing wall and the holds they manage appear to be different for each event, with a variety of difficult holds, large gaps, and well-defined overhangs.
According to IFSC regulations, the face can be pitched up to 60 degrees while suspended above the ground. The overhang at the last point is eight to nine meters (26-29.5 feet), meaning climbers are essentially climbing upside down. If the difficulty hasn't been enough up to this point, climbers have a limited time to inspect the face before ascending. During the draw and finish rounds, the climbers are given a limited amount of time to inspect the face before ascending.
Conclusion
This climbing discipline is practiced on a wall only 4.5 meters high, so athletes do not carry a safety rope. However, unlike speed and difficulty climbing, climbers must climb the bouldering wall multiple times the shorter wall is equipped with four or five fixed routes, also called problems. In each round of the competition, climbers must attempt several routes within a limited time for each, usually five or six minutes. Athletes can attempt a route as many times as they like during the five or six-minute time limit, resting roughly the same number of times between "problems.
As in difficulty climbing, the routes on the bouldering faces change with each competition, and climbers are given a brief observation" period to examine the rock before being isolated while the others climb. Climbers have "solved" a bouldering problem when they have reached the top hold of the route with both hands and have controlled their body. Completing a route in fewer attempts improves a climber's score. Athletes who excel in bouldering combine the physical characteristics and strengths of both speed and difficulty climbers, says Hroza they are explosive like speed climbers, but have a lot of endurance like difficulty climbers. Sport climbing made its debut at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Gas.
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