zondag 20 maart 2011

Belgian Youth Lead climbing championship 2011

Saterday 20 March 2011 we all went to the Belgian Youth Climbing Championship in the climbing gym at Braine L'Alleud .It was a very good organized competition .

Ignace topped his first qualification route together with Loïc Timmermans.The second route was harder and only Loïc was able to top this one.Ignace was on a second place after the qualifications.
In the finals he was not able to climb as good as expected and finished on a disappointing 4the place.

After the finals he had to do his first doping control ever.

Manolo almost topped his first qualification route, his second route was hard but he climbed as well as he could. He made it to the finals where he climbed well and finished on a 5th place.

The favourites Loic Timmermans ,Anak Verhoeven ,Celine Cypers ,Sebastien Berthe, Nicolas Van Cayzele,.. became Belgian champion.

Complete results on : Climb2climb

Saint Léger du Mont Ventoux 2011

During carnaval hollidays 7-9 March 2011, Ignace went together with his friends Loïc Timmermans, Sébastien Berthe ,Cyrile to climbing crag Saint Léger du Mont Ventoux (France).

They were spoiled because they could use the camper car of the family Timmermans.
Ignace was having a serious cold so couldn't climb the first days. He got better and climbed some 7B routes on sight and tried a 8A+ route called Le placard that he just did not top on the last day.

Loic did climb this route Le Placard 8A+ and also did Le mur des six Clopes 8B+.
Sebastien climbed Abrège Nief 8B

woensdag 9 maart 2011

Open Stone Age Youth 2011


Saterday 27 February 2011 148 young competitiors participated at the Open Youth Stone Age lead climbing competition. Manolo and Ignace also were there. These competitions are getting very popular with these young competitors.There was very limited space to sit and watch these young competitors. Too many climbers or too small climbing gyms ?

Ignace (Youth A) and Manolo (Youth B) climbed to the top of their first qualification route but missed the top on their second route.They were both in the Finals.
Manolo didn't realy wanted to be in the finals but tried to do his best and finished on a 7th place.

Ignace lost his nerve in the finals and ended on a for him disappointing 4th place.
In the Belgian Youth Climbing cup he ended on a 2 place ! Good Job !
Loic Timmermans finished as usual on first place.

From Klimax Climbing team the girls performed all very well .First places in Belgian Climbing cup for Anak Verhoeven(Youth B),Céline Cuypers (Youth C) and Laure-Anne Stevens (YouthD) . What a lot of Girl Power !!