Youth speed merchants crowned at Arco in IFSC Speed World Youth Championships

• Monday 7th September 2015

Sept 7^th; 2015

The IFSC World Youth Speed Championship at Arco saw a raft of impressive performances from rising new stars.

Female Junior podium from the IFSC World Youth Speed Championship. Photo IFSC

As usual, climbers from the established speed climbing nations such as Russia and the Ukraine performed well. However, capitalising on their ‘home’ advantage, Italian climbers took a gold and bronze podium. The visitor’s though weren’t to be outdone in every event and climbers from USA, France, Iran and Poland also took podium places.

Whilst speed climbing hasn’t really hit ‘big’ here in the UK there were some GBR competitors flying the fly of the UK in the form of Alex Bosi and Alex Waterhouse who finished 24^th and 30^th respectively in the male Junior stream.

As with the other comps, the events were split into three categories in each of the male and female streams; Juniors (Under 20), Youth A (Under 18) and Youth B (Under 16).

The top places are listed below.

Female Juniors

1^st Patrycja Chudziak (Pol)

2^nd Yana Lugovenko (Ukr)

3^rd Elena Markusheva (Rus)

Female Youth A

1^st Elma Fleuret (Fra)

2^nd Ekaterina Barashchuk (Rus)

3^rd Elizaveta Ivanova (Rus)

Female Youth B

1^st Elisabetta Dallabrida (Ita)

2^nd Karina Gareeva (Rus)

3^rd Elena Krasovskaia (Rus)

Male Juniors

1^st Georgy Artamonov (Rus)

2^nd John Brosler (USA)

3^rd Maksim Diachkov (Rus)

Male Youth A

1^st Kostiantyn Pavlenko (Ukr)

2^nd Mehdi Alipoursshena (Iri)

3^rd Lev Rudatskiy (Rus)

Male Youth B

1^st Petr Zemliakov (Rus)

2^nd Timur Yamaliev (Rus)

3^rd Leonardo Sandrin (Ita)

For a full listing of the results click through here to go to the IFSC website.