ZURLONI FEELING GOOD AGAIN FOR SPEED IN SEOUL

With the ladies crowning their Speed world champion final evening in Seoul, with a brand new world report within the course of, it was flip of the lads to begin their pursuit for a World Championships podium.

The USA workforce led the best way with two of their climbers occupying the highest positions – Zach Hammer was first with a time of 4.80s and Sam Watson was second with 4.87s. They may also be joined by teammate Michael Hom within the finals.

Ukraine’s Yaroslav Tkach broke the European report earlier than coming to Seoul, and he’ll contest the finals from fourth place. He can be joined by a teammate in Ilchyshyn Hryhorii.

Tkach took the report from present world champion Matteo Zurloni who’s beginning to really feel like the one that gained that title in Bern in 2023: “I’m feeling good. I just like the wall, and I just like the place, it jogs my memory of Bern. I’m completely satisfied as a result of it most likely solely the primary or second occasion this 12 months the place my physique and thoughts are on the identical stage and I can do what I would like.

“I don’t know if it was because of the Olympics last year or what but it was difficult for me to maintain my focus and a good mentally to go and trust myself. I think I am finding myself again. I’m confident now and I am going to trust my training and go tonight.”

With Aleksandra Miroslaw breaking the world report for the ladies final evening, new private bests from qualification and a bunch of continental report holders together with Watson who holds the world report in finals, Zurloni thinks there could possibly be a brand new world’s greatest time because of wall.

“Sometimes the wall is slippy, sometimes it’s the atmosphere and you can’t do anything about that, but for speed climbing it sucks as you have to change your route a little to not fall and you can’t go all out, and that’s all we want to do. So, I’m happy that in this important competition we have this crazy good wall.”

The males have gotten extra constant in the case of sub-5 occasions, and the highest six all have that point underneath their belts already. With podiums and medals on the road, we might see some even faster occasions come finals time.

The lower off time for the finals was taken by Japan’s Fujino Shuto with a 5.07s and 16^th place. He is joined by a bunch of Asian climbers with a robust Chinese workforce contributing 4 together with Olympic medallist Wu Peng.

Full males’s Speed qualification outcomes may be discovered right here

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