The 2022 IFSC Climbing World Cup is the 34th edition of the international sport climbing competition series organised by the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC), held in 12 locations. There are 21 events: six bouldering, seven lead, seven speed, and one bouldering & lead combined events. The series began on 8 April in Meiringen, 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 2024 Summer Olympics 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 points, 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 Meiringen, Switzerland, and repeats the back-to-back events held in Salt Lake City, introduced in the 2021 series The IFSC followed up in December 2021 with an announcement of Koper, Slovenia as a first-time host city, a change from the traditional host city of Kranj, 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 Moscow scheduled for April, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. On 22 March 2022, the federation announced that the suspended Moscow Boulder World Cup event was rescheduled to take place in Brixen, Italy from 10 to 12 June 2022.
On 24 March 2022, the IFSC announced that the World Cup originally scheduled to take place in Bali, Indonesia, would now take place in Jakarta.
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 Chongqing (Lead & Boulder) from 6 to 9 October, citing concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic.
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 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
In July, the IFSC announced a Lead & Speed World Cup to take place 9 to 11 September in Edinburgh, to replace the previously canceled Wujiang World Cup. Edinburgh had most recently hosted a World Cup in 2017.
Overview No.DatesLocationGoldSilverBronze18–10 April MeiringenBM Tomoa Narasaki 2T3Z 3 6 Yoshiyuki Ogata 2T3Z 5 19 Mejdi Schalck 2T3Z 7 9W Janja Garnbret 4T4Z 5 5 Natalia Grossman 3T4Z 8 16 Andrea Kümin 1T2Z 1 326–8 May SeoulBM Kokoro Fujii 4T4Z 11 4 Tomoa Narasaki 4T4Z 12 8 Yoshiyuki Ogata 3T4Z 6 7W Natalia Grossman 4T4Z 7 5 Oriane Bertone 3T4Z 5 5 Brooke Raboutou 3T3Z 6 5SM Veddriq Leonardo 6.965 Kiromal Katibin false start Rahmad Adi Mulyono 5.587W Aleksandra Mirosław 6.723 Emma Hunt 7.236 Aleksandra Kałucka 7.249320–22 May Salt Lake CityBM Mejdi Schalck 4T4Z 9 6 Yoshiyuki Ogata 4T4Z 11 10 Rei Kawamata 3T4Z 14 12W Natalia Grossman 4T4Z 9 9 Brooke Raboutou 3T4Z 5 14 Miho Nonaka 3T4Z 9 18SM Kiromal Katibin 5.643 Noah Bratschi fall Veddriq Leonardo 5.595W Aleksandra Mirosław 6.934 Aleksandra Kałucka 7.838 Natalia Kałucka 7.521427–29 May Salt Lake CityBM Yoshiyuki Ogata 4T4Z 5 5 Anze Peharc 4T4Z 5 5 Kokoro Fujii 4T4Z 9 8W Natalia Grossman 4T4Z 10 4 Miho Nonaka 3T4Z 5 5 Brooke Raboutou 3T4Z 6 4SM Veddriq Leonardo 6.330 Tobias Plangger fall Ludovico Fossali 5.490W Aleksandra Mirosław 6.548 Emma Hunt fall Aleksandra Kałucka 7.963510–12 June BrixenBM Yannick Flohé 2T4Z 5 9 Maximillian Milne 2T3Z 6 9 Tomoa Narasaki 1T4Z 4 9W Natalia Grossman 4T4Z 6 5 Hannah Meul 4T4Z 6 6 Luo Zhilu 2T4Z 5 9622–25 June InnsbruckBM Colin Duffy 3T4Z 12 9 Lee Dohyun 2T4Z 10 12 Yoshiyuki Ogata 2T4Z 10 14W Natalia Grossman 4T4Z 5 5 Hannah Meul 4T4Z 7 6 Miho Nonaka 2T2Z 3 2LM Colin Duffy 38+ Ao Yurikusa 37+ Jesse Grupper 37+W Janja Garnbret 39+ Seo Chae-hyun 27+ Brooke Raboutou 27+730 June–2 July VillarsLM Taisei Homma 36+ Jesse Grupper 34+ Colin Duffy 34W Janja Garnbret TOP Brooke Raboutou 37+ Natalia Grossman 35+SM Long Jianguo 5.23 Wu Peng 5.24 Long Jinbao 5.16W Deng Lijuan 6.87 Niu Di 8.22 Desak Made Rita Kusuma Dewi 7.0688–10 July ChamonixLM Adam Ondra 39+ Taisei Homma 39+ Sean Bailey 29+W Janja Garnbret TOP Laura Rogora TOP Seo Chae-hyun TOPSM Long Jinbao 5.11 Erik Noya Cardona 5.49 Aspar Aspar 5.53W Deng Lijuan 6.55 Aleksandra Kałucka 6.64 Desak Made Rita Kusuma Dewi 6.82922–23 July BriançonLM Jesse Grupper 37 Taisei Homma 35+ Alexander Megos 35+W Janja Garnbret 42+ Seo Chae-hyun 41+ Natalia Grossman 41102–3 September KoperLM Luka Potočar 30+ Sascha Lehmann 30+ Yannick Flohé 29+W Ai Mori 30+ Janja Garnbret 27+ Brooke Raboutou 23+119–11 September EdinburghLM Jesse Grupper TOP Luka Potočar 31+ Toby Roberts 30+W Ai Mori TOP Janja Garnbret TOP Seo Chae-hyun 42+SM Samuel Watson 5.97 Long Jinbao 6.93 Erik Noya Cardona wcW Aleksandra Kałucka 7.47 Natalia Kałucka fall Emma Hunt 7.281224–26 September JakartaLM Ao Yurikusa 29 Masahiro Higuchi 28 Sebastian Halenke 28W Janja Garnbret TOP Seo Chae-hyun 40 Mia Krampl 35+SM Aspar Aspar 5.39 Kiromal Katibin 5.75 Cao Long 5.16W Deng Lijuan 6.66 Natalia Kałucka 7.20 Aleksandra Kałucka 6.811320–22 October Morioka-IwateB&LM Tomoa Narasaki 156.4 Yoshiyuki Ogata 138.4 Kokoro Fujii 132.6 W Ai Mori 190.9 Natalia Grossman 171.2 Seo Chae-hyun 131.8OVERALLBM Yoshiyuki Ogata3990 Tomoa Narasaki3405 Kokoro Fujii3110W Natalia Grossman5000 Miho Nonaka3210 Brooke Raboutou2940LM Luka Potočar3860 Taisei Homma3835 Jesse Grupper3812W Janja Garnbret5805 Seo Chae-hyun4405 Natalia Grossman3370SM Veddriq Leonardo4455 Kiromal Katibin4080 Long Jinbao3105W Aleksandra Kałucka4680 Emma Hunt3950 Natalia Kałucka3820NATIONAL TEAMSBA Japan20783 United States15223 France10175.5LA Japan21355 Slovenia18273.66 United States16598SA Indonesia17135 Poland15347 China15203
Competition highlights In the speed competition at the Seoul World Cup on 6 May, Indonesia's Kiromal Katibin and Poland's Aleksandra Mirosław 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.
Natalia Grossman 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 Janja Garnbret of Slovenia, who sat out most of the bouldering season. Yoshiyuki Ogata of Japan also repeated as the overall bouldering series winner, and he was joined by fellow Japanese climbers Tomoa Narasaki with the silver and Kokoro Fujii with the bronze, completing a Japanese sweep of the bouldering series podium.
At Innsbruck in June, Colin Duffy 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 points, 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: Rank Name Points Meiringen Seoul Salt Lake City I Salt Lake City II Brixen Innsbruck 1 Yoshiyuki Ogata 3990 2. 805 3. 690 2. 805 1. 1000 5. (545) 3. 690 2 Tomoa Narasaki 3405 1. 1000 2. 805 7. 455 — 3. 690 7. 455 3 Kokoro Fujii 3110 6. 495 1. 1000 14. (260) 3. 690 9. 380 5. 545 4 Yannick Flohé 2475 — — 5. 545 7. 435 1. 1000 6. 495 5 Mejdi Schalck 2294 3. 690 7. 455 1. 1000 21. 137.5 — 43. 11.5 6 Maximillian Milne 2215 8. 415 8. 415 13. 280 12. 300 2. 805 14. (260) 7 Lee Dohyun 2128.5 41. 13.5 10. 350 — 10. 350 4. 610 2. 805 8 Colin Duffy 1976 5. 545 — 21. 137.5 13. 280 41. 13.5 1. 1000 9 Chon Jong-won 1957.5 21. 112.5 12. 300 — 4. 610 11. 325 4. 610 10 Rei Kawamata 1774.5 31. 39.5 — 3. 690 5. 545 14. 260 15. 240
Women The results of the ten most successful athletes of the Bouldering World Cup 2022: Rank Name Points Meiringen Seoul Salt Lake City I Salt Lake City II Brixen Innsbruck 1 Natalia Grossman 5000 2. (805) 1. 1000 1. 1000 1. 1000 1. 1000 1. 1000 2 Miho Nonaka 3210 26. (68) 8. 415 3. 690 2. 805 4. 610 3. 690 3 Brooke Raboutou 2940 12. 300 3. 690 2. 805 3. 690 — 7. 455 4 Futaba Ito 2560 5. 545 15. (240) 9. 380 4. 610 8. 415 4. 610 5 Hannah Meul 2345 7. 455 — 13. 280 — 2. 805 2. 805 6 Oriane Bertone 2316.5 4. 610 2. 805 7. 455 8. 415 — 33. 31.5 7 Jessica Pilz 2215 18. (185) 7. 455 4. 610 13. 280 7. 455 8. 415 8 Staša Gejo 2195 6. 495 4. 610 8. 415 11. 325 10. 350 16. (220) 9 Seo Chae-hyun 1930 17. (205) 14. 260 5. 545 12. 300 13. 280 5. 545 10 Camilla Moroni 1820 13. 280 5. 545 6. 495 17. (205) 16. 220 13. 280
* = Joint place with another athlete
Speed
The overall ranking is determined based upon points, 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: Rank Name Points Seoul Salt Lake City I Salt Lake City II Villars Chamonix Edinburgh Jakarta 1 Veddriq Leonardo 4455 1. 1000 3. 690 1. 1000 4. 610 4. 610 — 5. 545 2 Kiromal Katibin 4080 2. 805 1. 1000 5. 545 5. 545 9. 380 — 2. 805 3 Long Jinbao 3105 — — — 3. 690 1. 1000 2. 805 4. 610 4 Erik Noya Cardona 2955 11. 325 9. 380 7. 455 13. (280) 2. 805 3. 690 12. 300 5 Samuel Watson 2725 16. 220 8. 415 8. 415 12. 220 58. (5) 1. 1000 7. 455 6 Ludovico Fossali 2534 4. 610 4. 610 3. 690 12. 300 15. 240 31. (42) 26. 84 7 John Brosler 2460 38. (18) 5. 545 6. 495 7. 455 11. 325 7. 455 18. 185 8 Long Jianguo 2380 — — — 1. 1000 7. 455 5. 545 9. 380 9 Aspar Jaelolo 2245 10. 350 — — 17. 205 3. 690 — 1. 1000 10 Guillaume Moro 2115 7. 455 11. 325 12. 300 8. 415 51. (7) 9. 380 15. 240
Women The results of the ten most successful athletes of the Speed World Cup 2022: Rank Name Points Seoul Salt Lake City I Salt Lake City II Villars Chamonix Edinburgh Jakarta 1 Aleksandra Kałucka 4680 3. 690 2. 805 3. 690 9. (380) 2. 805 1. 1000 3. 690 2 Emma Hunt 3950 2. 805 4. 610 2. 805 6. 495 — 3. 690 5. 545 3 Natalia Kałucka 3820 13. (280) 3. 690 4. 610 7. 455 7. 455 2. 805 2. 805 4 Deng Lijuan 3380 — — — 1. 1000 1. 1000 9. 380 1. 1000 5 Aleksandra Mirosław 3000 1. 1000 1. 1000 1. 1000 — — — — 6 Niu Di 2385 — — — 2. 805 6. 495 6. 475* 4. 610 7 Capucine Viglione 2365 6. 495 10. 350 7. 455 8. 415 10. 350 12. 300 15. (240) 8 Patrycja Chudziak 2345 11. 325 6. 495 9. 380 12. 300 12. 300 5. 545 18. (185) 9 Aurelia Sarisson 2210 14. 260 5. 545 32. (37) 10. 350 9. 380 11. 325 10. 350 10 Desak Made Rita Kusuma Dewi 2140 9. 380 — — 3. 690 3. 690 — 9. 380
* = Joint place with another athlete
Lead The overall ranking is determined based upon points, 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.
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