The Ice Climbing World Cup (or UIAA Ice Climbing World Tour, or IWC) is an annual ice climbing competition organized by the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation (UIAA), who has regulated and governed the sport of competition ice climbing since the first IWC in 2000. It is the ice climbing equivalent of the IFSC Climbing World Cup in rock climbing.
Structure The IWC is organized as an annual tour consisting of three to six events throughout the season (the number has varied over the years), in which men's and women's lead climbing and speed climbing competitions are held. The lead climbing routes are held on largely bolted dry artificial surfaces (with some natural ice features) and thus employ dry-tooling techniques. The speed-climbing routes are on a standardized 12-18 meter (40-50 foot) wall of solid ice that takes seconds for top roped ice climbers to complete (as per speed rock climbing).
Over the years, the UIAA has increased the regulation and use around competition ice climbing equipment, including the prohibition of leashes on ice tools (so they cannot be used as aid), and increased controls on the use of "heel spurs" while climbing (to counter their use for resting).
Men's results
Lead
Year Winner Second Third 2000 Will Gadd 2001 2002 — 2003 2004no world tour 2005no world tour 2006 Simon Wandler 2007 2008 Simon Anthamatten 2009 2010 2011 2012 Park Hee Yong 2013 Park Hee Yong Valentyn Sypavin 2014 2015 2016 Hee Yong Park Janez Svoljsak 2017 2018 Mohamadreza Safdarian Korouyeh 2019 2020 Kwon Younghye 2023 2024 Younggeon Lee Keenan Griscom Virgile Devin 2025 Younggeon Lee
Speed
Year Winner Second Third 2006 Maxim Vlasov Urs Odermatt Igor Fayzullin 2007 Alexander Matveev Nikolay Shved Igor Fayzullin 2008 Matevz Vukotic Kirill Kolchegoshev 2009 Pavel Gulyaev 2010 Pavel Gulyaev Pavel Batushev Igor Fayzullin 2011 Pavel Batushev Pavel Gulyaev 2012 Kirill Kolchegoshev Pavel Batushev 2013 Egor Trapeznikov Ivan Spitsyn Pavel Gulyaev 2014 Vladimir Kartashev Alexey Vagin 2015 Vladimir Kartashev Egor Trapeznikov 2016 Alexey Vagin Vladimir Kartashev 2017 Vladimir Kartashev Radomir Proshchenko* Leonid Malykh 2018 Ivan Spitsyn Anton Nemov 2019 Vladislav Iurlov 2020 2023 Mohsen Beheshti Rad Myungwook Yang Mohammad Reza Safdarian 2024 Mandakhbayar Chuluunbaatar Mohammad Reza Safdarian Mohsen Beheshti Rad 2025 Mandakhbayar Chuluunbaatar Mohammad Reza Safdarian Kherlen Nyamdoo * 2017: 2. Pavel Batushev doping
Women's results
Lead
Year Winner Second Third 2000 Kim Csizmazia 2001 Ines Papert 2002 Ksenia Sdobnikova Ines Papert 2003 Ines Papert Ksenia Sdobnikova Kirsten Buchmann 2004no world tour 2005no world tour 2006 Ines Papert 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Petra Klingler 2016 Ekaterina Vlasova 2017 2018 2019 2020 2023 Petra Klingler 2024 2025 Marianne van der Steen
Speed
Year Winner Second Third 2006 Maria Shabalina 2007 Maria Shabalina Maria Muravyeva 2008 2009 2010 Nadezda Shubina Viktoria Shabalina 2011 Irina Bagaeva 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 — 2018 2019 Natalja Savická 2020 Alena Vlasova 2023 2024 Aneta Louzecka Lorena Beck 2025 Selenge Nyamdoo Catalina Shirley Aneta Louzecka
See also
UIAA Ice Climbing World Championships UIAA Ice Climbing World Youth Championships Mixed climbing Dry-tooling
References
External links UIAA Ice Climbing World Tour UIAA Results Archive (From 2002)