The 2022

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is the 34th edition of the international sport climbing competition series organised by the

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(IFSC), held in 12 locations. There are 21 events: six

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, and one bouldering & lead combined events. The series began on 8 April in

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, Switzerland with the first bouldering competitions of the season, and concluded on 22 October in Morioka-Iwate, Japan, which introduced the Boulder & Lead combined format that will be used at the

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in Paris. The top 3 in each competition receive medals, and the overall winners are awarded trophies. At the end of the season, an overall ranking is determined based upon

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

Scheduling

The IFSC announced the 2022 World Cup schedule in October 2021. The series was initially scheduled to open in Moscow instead of the traditional curtain-raiser in

, Switzerland, and repeats the back-to-back events held in

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, introduced in the 2021 series The IFSC followed up in December 2021 with an announcement of

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, Slovenia as a first-time host city, a change from the traditional host city of

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, Slovenia which hosted a World Cup event 25 times between 1996 and 2021, as well as Wujiang as the last stop in the circuit. On 25 February 2022, the IFSC announced the suspension of the Boulder and Speed World Cup in

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scheduled for April, following the

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. On 22 March 2022, the federation announced that the suspended Moscow Boulder World Cup event was rescheduled to take place in

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, Italy from 10 to 12 June 2022. On 24 March 2022, the IFSC announced that the World Cup originally scheduled to take place in

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, Indonesia, would now take place in

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. On 20 May 2022, the IFSC announced the cancellation of two World Cup events in China, Wujiang (Lead & Speed) from 30 September to 2 October and

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(Lead & Boulder) from 6 to 9 October, citing concerns over the

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. Later in May, the federation announced that the Boulder World Cup event originally scheduled for Japan in May would be rescheduled as a Boulder & Lead World Cup in Morioka-Iwate, Japan from 20 to 22 October. This would be the first IFSC event to feature the Boulder & Lead combined format that will be used at the

in Paris. In July, the IFSC announced a Lead & Speed World Cup to take place 9 to 11 September in

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, to replace the previously canceled Wujiang World Cup. Edinburgh had most recently hosted a World Cup in 2017.

Overview

Competition highlights

In the speed competition at the Seoul World Cup on 6 May, Indonesia's

Kiromal Katibin Kiromal Katibin (born ) is an Indonesian sport climber specializing in speed climbing. He is the current world record holder in speed climbing, with a time of 5.009 seconds recorded at 2022 IFSC Climbing World Cup in Chamonix, France in July 202 ...

and Poland's

Aleksandra Mirosław Aleksandra Mirosław (née Rudzińska, born 2 February 1994) is a Polish speed climber and a two-time women's speed climbing world champion as well as the current women's speed climbing world record holder. Early life Mirosław is originally f ...

set the world record for their respective genders' at 5.17 seconds and 6.64 seconds, respectively. Two weeks later, Katibin and Mirosław broke their own records in Salt Lake City, at 5.10 seconds and 6.53 seconds, respectively. Katibin broke his own record twice on 30 June during the qualifying round at Villars, posting times of 5.09, and then 5.04 seconds. He broke his record again on 8 July at Chamonix with a time of 5.009. Grossman 2022

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of the United States repeated her women's bouldering overall series win with five straight gold medals, only missing the gold when she finished second to

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of Slovenia, who sat out most of the bouldering season.

Yoshiyuki Ogata Yoshiyuki Ogata (緒方良行 ''Ogata Yoshiyuki'', born February 4, 1998) is a Japanese professional sport climber and boulderer. He has won multiple medals in bouldering at IFSC Climbing World Cup events, including gold medals at Vail in 2019 ...

of Japan also repeated as the overall bouldering series winner, and he was joined by fellow Japanese climbers

Tomoa Narasaki Tomoa Narasaki (楢﨑智亜 ''Narasaki Tomoa'', born June 22, 1996) is a Japanese professional sport climber and boulderer. He started climbing at age 10, together with Sachi Amma, in Sachi's family climbing gym. Previously, he had been train ...

with the silver and Kokoro Fujii with the bronze, completing a Japanese sweep of the bouldering series podium. At Innsbruck in June,

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of the United States won both the bouldering and lead gold medals, becoming the first male athlete to win both disciplines in the same IFSC World Cup event.

Bouldering

The overall ranking is determined based upon

, which athletes are awarded for finishing in the top 40 of each individual event. The end-of-season standings are based on the sum of points earned from the five best finishes for each athlete. Results displayed ''(in brackets)'' are not counted. The national ranking is the sum of the points of that country's three best male and female athletes.

Men

The results of the ten most successful athletes of the Bouldering World Cup 2022:

Women

The results of the ten most successful athletes of the Bouldering World Cup 2022: * = Joint place with another athlete

Speed

The overall ranking is determined based upon

, which athletes are awarded for finishing in the top 40 of each individual event. There were seven competitions in the season. The national ranking is the sum of the points of that country's three best male and female athletes. Results displayed ''(in brackets)'' are not counted.

Men

The results of the ten most successful athletes of the Speed World Cup 2022:

Women

The results of the ten most successful athletes of the Speed World Cup 2022: * = Joint place with another athlete

Lead

The overall ranking is determined based upon

Men

The results of the ten most successful athletes of the Lead World Cup 2022:

Women

The results of the ten most successful athletes of the Lead World Cup 2022: * = Joint place with another athlete

Season podium table

Medal table

References

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