The 2018

IFSC Climbing World Cup The IFSC Climbing World Cup is a series of climbing competitions held annually and organized by the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC). The athletes compete in three disciplines: lead, bouldering and speed. The number of competit ...

was held in 14 locations. There were 22 events: 7

bouldering Bouldering is a form of free climbing that is performed on small rock formations or artificial rock walls without the use of ropes or harnesses. While bouldering can be done without any equipment, most climbers use climbing shoes to help sec ...

, 7

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, and 8

speed In everyday use and in kinematics, the speed (commonly referred to as ''v'') of an object is the magnitude of the change of its position over time or the magnitude of the change of its position per unit of time; it is thus a scalar quanti ...

events. The season began on 13 April in

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, Switzerland, and concluded on 28 October in

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, China. The top 3 in each competition received medals, and the overall winners were awarded trophies. At the end of the season an overall ranking was determined based upon

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, which athletes were awarded for finishing in the top 30 of each individual event. The winners for bouldering were

Jernej Kruder Jernej Kruder (born December 5, 1990) is a Slovenian rock climber who specializes in competition climbing, bouldering and sport climbing. In 2018, he won the IFSC Climbing World Cup in competition bouldering. Climbing career In 2016 Jernej comp ...

and

Miho Nonaka is a Japanese competition boulderer. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Women's combined, winning a silver medal. Life Her father and sister introduced her to climbing when she was 9, and she competed in her first world cup aged 17 ...

, for lead

Jakob Schubert Jakob Schubert (born December 31, 1990) is an Austrian professional rock climber, sport climber and boulderer. He was World Champion (2012, 2018, 2021) and World Cup winner (2011, 2014, 2018) in Lead climbing. He has redpointed to . In August 2 ...

and

Janja Garnbret Janja Garnbret (born March 12, 1999) is a Slovenian rock climbing, rock climber and sport climber who has won multiple lead climbing and bouldering events at climbing competitions. In 2021, she became the first ever female Olympic gold medalist in ...

, for speed

Bassa Mawem Bassa Mawem (born 9 November 1984) is a French professional speed climber. He qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics.Qualification System – Games of the XXXII Olympiad – ''Sport climbing''; International Federation of Sport Climbing, 15 Marc ...

and

Anouck Jaubert Anouck Jaubert (born 27 January 1994) is a French sport climber competing in speed climbing competitions. In 2017, she won the silver medal in the women's speed event at the World Games held in Wrocław, Poland. Four years earlier, she competed ...

, and for combined

and

, men and women respectively. The National Team for bouldering was

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, for lead

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, and for speed

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Highlights of the season

In bouldering, at the World Cup in

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flashed all boulders in the final round to take the win.

and

Akiyo Noguchi is a Japanese professional rock climber, sport climber and boulderer. She participates in both bouldering and lead climbing competitions. She is known for winning the IFSC Climbing World Cup in Bouldering four times. In her home country, she ...

, both of

, were the only athletes who never missed a podium in all 7 bouldering competitions in the season. In lead climbing,

was the only athlete who never missed a podium in all 7 lead competitions in the season. In speed climbing, at the first Speed World Cup of the season in

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matched the world record of 7.32 seconds set by

Iuliia Kaplina Iuliia Vladimirovna Kaplina (russian: Юлия Владимировна Каплина; born 11 May 1993) is a Russian sport climber who has won multiple speed climbing events and set multiple world records. She was the world record holder in wom ...

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at the

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in Wroclaw. Then at the end of the season, French athletes,

and

clinched the overall titles of the season for men and women respectively, making it double speed titles for

Changes from the previous season

For the 2018 season the IFSC changed the scoring method for its tournaments. Previously in bouldering, topped boulders were the deciding factor, followed as tiebreakers in decreasing order of importance: attempts to tops, bonus holds (renamed to ''zones''), and attempts to bonus holds. The first and second tiebreakers switched places which means that the results were determined by tops, zones, attempts to tops, and attempts to zones. Also athletes now need to demonstrate firm control of the two starting hand holds. Previously touching all four marked start points in any manner was deemed sufficient to start an attempt.

Overview

Bouldering

An overall ranking was determined based upon

, which athletes were awarded for finishing in the top 30 of each individual event. There were seven competitions in the season, but only the best six attempts were counted. The national ranking was the sum of the points of that country's three best male and female athletes. Results displayed in parentheses were not counted.

Men

The results of the ten most successful athletes of the Bouldering World Cup 2018:

Women

The results of the ten most successful athletes of the Bouldering World Cup 2018:

National Teams

The results of the ten most successful countries of the Bouldering World Cup 2018: ''Country names as used by the IFSC''

Lead

An overall ranking was determined based upon

, which athletes were awarded for finishing in the top 30 of each individual event.

Men

6 best competition results were counted (not counting points in parentheses) for IFSC Climbing Worldcup 2018.

Women

6 best competition results were counted (''not counting points in brackets'') for IFSC Climbing Worldcup 2018.

National Teams

For National Team Ranking, 3 best results per competition and category were counted (''not counting results in brackets'').

Speed

An overall ranking was determined based upon

, which athletes were awarded for finishing in the top 30 of each individual event.

Men

7 best competition results were counted ''(not counting points in brackets)'' for IFSC Climbing World Cup 2018.

Women

7 best competition results were counted ''(not counting points in brackets)'' for IFSC Climbing World Cup 2018.

National Teams

For National Team Ranking, 3 best results per competition and category were counted ''(not counting results in brackets)''.

Combined

The results of the ten most successful athletes of the Combined World Cup 2018:

Men

Women

Season podium table

Medal table

References

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