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The 2021 IFSC Climbing World Cup is the 33rd edition of the international sport climbing competition series, held in 11 locations. Bouldering, lead and speed competitions are each held in 6 locations. The season began on 16 April in Meiringen, Switzerland with the first bouldering competition in the season, and will conclude on 31 October in Jakarta, Indonesia, with the last speed climbing competition in the season.

If completed, it would be the first full IFSC Climbing World Cup series since the 2019 edition, as the 2020 IFSC Climbing World Cup was limited to just one event, the Briançon Lead World Cup in August 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The opening event in Meiringen was the first Boulder World Cup since the 2019 season. The Boulder World Cup and the Boulder and Speed World Cup scheduled for 21–22 May and 28–30 May, respectively, in Salt Lake City, United States, are the first-ever consecutive IFSC World Cups held in the same city.

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

Scheduling

In December 2020, the IFSC moved the 21–22 May Boulder World Cup from Munich, Germany to Salt Lake City, United States, and rescheduled the already existing Boulder & Speed World Cup in Salt Lake City from 11–13 June to 28–30 May, in order to minimize travel for athletes and staff. In March, the federation also moved the Seoul, South Korea and Wujiang, China World Cups from April and May to October because of ongoing COVID-19 related restrictions in the respective countries.

Competition highlights

Because of the cancellations caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the opening World Cup event of 2021 Meiringen held 16–17 April 2021, was the first Boulder World Cup in 22 months, since Vail, Colorado in September 2019., and the first Climbing World Cup of any discipline since August 2020 in Briançon. Adam Ondra won the men's gold, his 20th career World Cup medal, with 3 tops in the final. On the women's side, Slovenia's Janja Garnbret continued her winning run from her unbeaten 2019 bouldering campaign, winning the competition by topping all boulders with just four falls while 16-year-old French climber Oriane Bertone made her senior competition debut with a second-place finish behind Garnbret. Garnbret did not participate in the first of two World Cups in Salt Lake City held 21–22 May, bringing her streak of seven Boulder World Cup wins to an end. In her absence, Grossman won the gold, followed by Bertone, who again finished second, while Ondra repeated as the men's Boulder winner.

Overview

№	Location	Disciplines: Boulder/Lead/Speed	Gender: Men/Women	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1	Meiringen, Switzerland April, 16–18	B	M	Adam Ondra	3T3z 10 7	Yoshiyuki Ogata	2T4z 7 9	Tomoaki Takata	1T4z 4 12
			W	Janja Garnbret	4T4z 7 6	Oriane Bertone	2T4z 8 10	Natalia Grossman	2T4z 10 10
2	Salt Lake City, United States May, 21-22	B	M	Adam Ondra	4T4z 8 7	Mejdi Schalck	3T4z 4 5	Jakob Schubert	3T3z 4 4
			W	Natalia Grossman	4T4z 15 14	Oriane Bertone	3T4z 7 7	Brooke Raboutou	3T3z 4 3
3	Salt Lake City, United States May, 28–30	B	M
			W
		S	M	Veddriq Leonardo	5.208	Kiromal Katibin	fall	Marcin Dzieński	5.842
			W	Aleksandra Mirosław	7.382	Emma Hunt	7.539	Miho Nonaka	8.958
4	Innsbruck, Austria June, 23–26	B	M
			W
		L	M
			W
5	Villars, Switzerland July, 1–3	L	M
			W
		S	M
			W
6	Chamonix, France July, 12–13	L	M
			W
7	Briançon, France July, 17–18	L	M
			W
8	Ljubljana, Slovenia September, 4–5	L	M
			W
9	Seoul, South Korea October, 1–3	B	M
			W
		S	M
			W
10	Xiamen, China October, 15–17	L	M
			W
		S	M
			W
11	Wujiang, China October, 22–24	B	M
			W
		S	M
			W
8	Ljubljana, Slovenia September, 4–5	L	M
			W
12	Jakarta, Indonesia October, 30–31	S	M
			W

1. Originally scheduled to be held in Munich, Germany.
2. Moved from 11–13 June.
3. Moved from 7–9 May.
4. Moved from 30 April–2 May.
5. Moved from 23–24 October.

Bouldering

The overall ranking is determined based upon points, which athletes are awarded for finishing in the top 30 of each individual event. There are six competitions in the season, but only the best five attempts are counted. 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 Bouldering World Cup 2021:

Rank	Name	Points	Meiringen	Salt Lake City I	Salt Lake City II	Innsbruck	Seoul	Wujiang
1	Adam Ondra	200	1. 100	1. 100
2	Kokoro Fujii	110	4. 55	4. 55
3	Mejdi Schalck	108	12. 28	2. 80
4	Yoshiyuki Ogata	100	2. 80	16. 20
5	Gregor Vezonik	84	9. 37	6. 47
6	Alexander Megos	77	8. 40	9. 37
7	Tomoaki Takata	74	3. 65	21. 9
8	Jakob Schubert	72.5	(23. 7,5*)	3. 65
9	Sohta Amagasa	71	6. 47	14. 24
10	Sean Bailey	66	13. 26	8. 40

Women

The results of the ten most successful athletes of the Bouldering World Cup 2021:

Rank	Name	Points	Meiringen	Salt Lake City I	Salt Lake City II	Innsbruck	Seoul	Wujiang
1	Natalia Grossmann	165	3. 65	1. 100
2	Oriane Bertone	160	2. 80	2. 80
3	Brooke Raboutou	102	9. 37	3. 65
4	Janja Garnbret	100	1. 100	—
5	Miho Nonaka	98	7. 43	4. 55
6	Katja Debevec	87	6. 47	8. 40
7	Jessica Pilz	79	12. 28	5. 51
8	Vita Lukan	59	5. 51	23. 8
9	Staša Gejo	57	13. 26	11. 31
10	Akiyo Noguchi	55	4. 55	—

* = Joint place with another athlete

See also

• Sport climbing at the 2020 Summer Olympics
• 2021 IFSC Climbing World Championships

References

1. "BOTH IFSC WORLD CUP STAGES IN SALT LAKE CITY CONFIRMED" (Press release). IFSC. March 26, 2021.
2. Houston, Michael (29 December 2020). "Salt Lake City to host two IFSC World Cups in 2021". insidethegames.biz.
3. Houston, Michael (5 March 2021). "IFSC World Cups in China and South Korea postponed to October". insidethegames.biz.
4. ^ Berry, Natalie (19 April 2021). "IFSC Boulder World Cup Meiringen 2021: Report". UKC.
5. "Janja Garnbret, Adam Ondra win Bouldering World Cup opener in Meiringen". Planet Mountain. 19 April 2021.
6. Berry, Natalie (24 May 2021). "IFSC Boulder World Cup Salt Lake City 2021: Report". UKC. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
7. "The IFSC Presents Its 2021 Competition Calendar". GymClimber. 3 September 2020.
8. "IFSC Bouldering World Cup 2021 Men OVERALL Ranking".
9. "IFSC Bouldering World Cup 2021 Women OVERALL Ranking".

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