Climbing-Slovenia’s Garnbret puts on bouldering masterclass ahead of lead section

TOKYO, Aug 4 (Reuters) – Slovenian medal favorite Janja Garnbret placed on a bouldering masterclass within the girls’s Olympic climbing qualifiers on Wednesday, racing to the highest of the rankings forward of the occasion’s lead contest.

Bouldering is the second of three sections climbers should compete in to obtain a mixed rating, which is able to decide their general consequence. It requires athletes to make use of problem-solving abilities to scale an array of obstacles alongside a low wall.

Bouldering routes on the Olympics have proved difficult, with Garnbret alone managing to unravel all 4 issues on Wednesday. Within the males’s qualifier on Tuesday, only one climber may resolve greater than two.

The 22-year-old Garnbret now leads the general standings, bumping into second Polish pace specialist Aleksandra Miroslaw, who got here inside a hair’s breadth of matching the world file of 6.96 seconds within the opening pace occasion, a head-to-head race up a 15m wall.

After ending twelfth in pace, Brooke Raboutou of america moved into third place, crushing three of the 4 boulder issues forward of the lead part – a timed climb which checks the athletes’ endurance and technical means.

Japanese medal contenders Akiyo Noguchi and Miho Nonaka placed on strong performances to complete fifth and sixth, with the previous significantly spectacular within the bouldering contest.

The 32-year-old Noguchi has stated she plans to retire after the Olympics, after greater than 15 years in skilled climbing.

The highest eight girls within the standings in any case three sections will advance to Friday’s closing.

The beginning of ladies’s competitors follows a day of breakthrough and reversal for France’s two Mawem brothers within the males’s occasion: the pair secured locations within the closing earlier than the elder brother, Bassa, was compelled to drop out as a result of harm. read more

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Reporting by Sam Nussey; Enhancing by Kenneth Maxwell and Hugh Lawson

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