The competitor lists for the upcoming IFSC Bouldering World Cup Toronto are impressive. This is the first IFSC Bouldering World Cup of the season due to the IFSC Bouldering World Cup in Grindelwald being cancelled. This Bouldering world cup will takes the centre stage this weekend following a fantastic European Bouldering Championship that occurred in Innsbruck two weeks ago.
On the men’s side, fan favourites include Canada’s Sean McColl, Adam Ondra, and Jan Hojer. From the other side of the border, Josh Larson looks like the competitor to beat. Josh has been training with a variety of world cup climbers and has really taken the start of the season seriously.
Winner of European Bouldering Championship, Jan Hojer. Photo: Unknown ©
Climbing for Canada, we have a number of fantastic competitors. As the host nation, we are allowed 16 athletes in each category. Previous SCM interviews with competitors are in red.
Canadian Men
Sean McColl
Eric Sethna
Jason Holowach
Sebastien Lazure
Ayodele Sopeju
Marc Eveleigh
Dan Archambault
Samuel Tukuvaara
Andre Difelice
Yves Gravelle
Andrew Funk
Nathan Smith
Dmitri Karaman
Shaun Hunter
Jesse Taplin
Ville Tiukuvaara
Jake Tiger
Bourassa Moreau
Lucas Uchida
Ben Fenton
Sean McColl. Photo: Unknown ©
On the women’s side, we have a number of international stars including Anna Stohr, Akiyo Noguchi, Shawna Coxsey (who was injured two weeks ago), and the winner of the European Championship, Juliane Wurm. From the United States, Alex Puccio, Alex Johnson, and Angie Payne will all being showing their strength.
Juliane Wurm. Photo: Unknown ©
Here are the Canadian competitors. Don’t forget Maria Celcova, who is a Vancouver local but competes for Slovakia.
Canadian Women
Thomasina Pidgeon
Elise Sethna
Elizabeth Vince
Celeste Wall
Alyssa Weber
Rebecca Frangos
Clarrie Lam
Stacey Weldon
Allison Stewart-Patterson
Samantha Li
Allison Vest
Catherine Brunel-Guitton
Esti Tweg
Veronique Gosselin
En NeoSu
Kristina Jellema
Ashley Veevers
Olivia Wyett
Rebecca Frangos. Photo: Shane Murdoch ©
Thomasina Pidgeon. Photo: Mike Chapman ©
For the full list of competitors, please click here.
Good luck this weekend to everyone. Be sure to tune in May 31st, 2015 for Semi-finals in the morning (11am Eastern) and Finals in the afternoon. The links to these feeds can be found below.
