This year the first World Cup competition in bouldering was without direct Czech participation. The Slovak Andrej Chrastina who lives in Prague was the 19th.
Czech Cup competition in difficulty climbing took place this weekend in Bohemian town Lomnice nad Popelkou.
The first bests:
1 Hlaváček Jakub
2 Stráník Martin
3 Zbranek Jan
DRYTOOLING as a relatively new discipline is becoming an attractive option for young strong climbers. One of them is Dušan Janák aka Stoupa with whom we set off to the HÖNCENSTEINTAL valley in Dolomites on 17th February 2004.
Brief news from the Czech Cup of competition in bouldering in Breclav (the event was with international participation from Slovakia and Hungary):
Men:
1. Martin Eckert (SK)
2. Jakub Hlaváček
3. Andrej Chrastina (SK)
The strong international participation was at todays competition of kids difficulty climbing Lanex Cup in Bohemian town Jicin. The best were the Latvians in the kategory of 1991-92, and also the Hungarian and Slovakian were good.
The Czech children were quite successful in speed climbing this weekend (March 6) in Budapest international climbing competition. The best was Aneta Hyvlova (LK Prachov, Lanex, Triop, Tukan Team) who won the girls speed category.
Update: full results and new photos
Silva Rajfová, Czech girl from Brno was on Saturday the second in the competition of Slovakian Cup in bouldering which took place in Slovakian town Žilina. A Slovakian climber Andrej Chrastina well known from the Prague Boulder Bar was the 3rd.
This year the first World Cup competition in bouldering was without direct Czech participation. The Slovak Andrej Chrastina who lives in Prague was the 19th.
The other Slovak Marek Repčík was the 10th.
Among women there were even no participation on competition (April 2-4 2004) from Slovakia.
The three best:
Men
1. DULAC Daniel FRA
2. FISCHHUBER Kilian AUT
3. PARRY Gareth GBR
Woman:
1. LEVET Sandrine FRA
2. BIBIK Olga RUS
3. LAVARDA Jenny ITA