Climbing Japan Cup or Japan Climbing Cup is a series of

climbing competition A climbing competition (or comp) is usually held indoors on purpose built climbing walls. There are three main types of climbing competition: lead, speed, and bouldering. In lead climbing, the competitors start at the bottom of a route and must ...

s held annually and organized by the JMSCA (Japan Mountaineering and Sport Climbing Association). The athletes compete in three disciplines:

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, bouldering and

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 ...

. The first Lead Japan Cup was held in 1987. The first Bouldering Japan Cup was held in 2005. The first Combined Japan Cup was held in 2018. The first Speed Japan Cup was held in 2019.

Lead

'' Lead Japan Cup (in Japanese)''

Bouldering

'' Bouldering Japan Cup (in Japanese)'' Akiyo Noguchi won the most, with 9 consecutive wins from 2005 to 2014 (1st-9th). In 2017,

Futaba Ito is a Japanese professional rock climber, sport climber and boulderer. She participates in both bouldering and lead climbing competitions. She won the IFSC Climbing Asian Youth Championships in lead and bouldering events in 2016, as well as Boul ...

then 14-year-old, became the youngest athlete to win the Bouldering Japan Cup. There were no male athletes who won more than once until Kokoro Fujii won three times consecutively from 2016 to 2018 and then again in 2021.

Speed

'' Speed Japan Cup (in Japanese)''

Combined

'' Combined Japan Cup (in Japanese)''

References

External links

www.jma-climbing.org (JMSCA website for Events, Competitions and Calendar/Results)

JMSCA (Japan Mountaineering and Sport Climbing Association)

JMSCA Youtube channel
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