European Youth climbing Edinburg Schotland

Ignace went with the Belgian Youth Lead climbing team to the European youth  climbing competition in Edinburgh Schotland . He climbed both qualification routes and finished on a 14 place in category Juniors Male. In his category Sebastien Berthe made it to the finals and finished on a 7th place.

Superwoman Anak Verhoeven (Female A) climbed  strong and won in her category.
Another superstar Loïc Timmermans (Male A) finished on 3place .
Celine Cuypers (Female B)  showed she  can climb very hard  by climbing to the top in her 2 qualifications routes and finishing on a 3th place in the finals . Great start for her !
Chloe Caulier (Female A)   made it to the finals and took 5th place !

See complete results on :
http://www.ifsc-climbing.org

Results of the Belgian Team 

	Female	Male
Youth B :	03. Céline Cuypers 15. Maëlys Gillart 21. Verhaeren Margot	16. Liam Thijs 18. Simon Lorenzi 21. Nicolas Collin 24. Antoine Matheys
Youth A :	01. Verhoeven Anak 05. Chloé Caulier 18. Julie Elseviers	03. Loïc Timmermans 12. Nicolas Vancayzeele 24. Cédric Binst 25. Koen Bakelandt 26.William Frimout
Junior :	11. Emilie Guérit	07. Sébastien Berthe 14. Ignace Debreyne

Video Belgian Boulder championship Youth B Male

Belgian boulder championship 2012

Sunday 13 May 2012 “Mother’s Day” in Belgium, was the Belgian Youth Boulder competition

in boulder gym Bleau in  Gent.  All competitors (6 per category) that were selected for the finals wanted to top 4 boulders in less than 4 minutes per boulder. It was a very exciting competition. Good boulders that made it a thriller until the last boulder was climbed. 

Ignace (Cat. Juniors Male) topped the first two boulders. The third boulder was very difficult. In his last try Ignace found the sequence to top this boulder. He was the only one to top this hard boulder. So after 3 boulders Ignace was on first place. The last boulder wasn’t so hard because a lot of climbers were able to top it so he had a good chance to succeed although he had already given a lot of effort in the 3th boulder.  Ignace tried as hard as he could to top the 4the but was unable to top and become Belgian champion. He saw his dream vanish as the 4 minutes ticked away and was frustrated because he was so close! The best climber that needed the least attempts to top 3 boulders was Lukas Geukens and he became Belgian Champion .Ignace became second and Antoine Kaufman third.

In Cat A male it was also a thriller until the last boulder .Cedric Binst and Nicolas Van Cayzeele climbed the first 3 boulders on sight. The fourth boulder was too hard for both of them but Cédric was able to hold the intermediate bonus hold at his first try and Nicolas needed one try more. Cédric Binst became for the first time Belgian Boulder Champion. Carl still remembers Cedric told him he wanted to become a Belgian champion when he gave training to Cedric in climbing gym Blok on the old location a lot of years ago. Now Cedric's dream came true!  Nicolas took silver medal and Koen Baekeland took the bronze medal.

Manolo (Cat. B Male) climbed as high Liam Thys in the first 3 boulders. So also here the last boulder would decide who would win. Manolo topped this last boulder on sight.  Manolo was the only one in his category to top this boulder and became Belgian Boulder champion. Liam took second place and Simon Lorenzi took third place.

See complete results  on : 

http://www.climb2climb.be/images/site/articles_news/2012/2012-05/millet_ybc_2012.pdf

Video Ignace at Spartacus Survival run

Belgian Lead&Speed championship 2012

Ignace participated at the 2012 Belgian Lead&Speed championship 2012 on saterday 5 May 2012 in climbing gym Entre Ciel et Terre in Louvain-La-Neuve. He climbed two qualifications lead routes but was not able to qualify for the Lead Finals with his 16 place out of 29 male climbers . In speed competition he was in the finals and finished on a 7th place.
No surprises in Lead competition as Loïc Timmermans (Men) and Mathilde Brumagne (Women) became Belgian champions in Lead. In speed Lis Jurgen(Men)  was the fastest together with Anak Verhoeven (Women).

Complete results on :  http://www.belclimb.net

Ignace at Spartacus survival run Antwerp

Ignace participated at the first Spartacus run in Antwerp on 1 May 2012. No climbing but  10 kilometers survival run with 14 obstacles . 3000 people  and Ignace ran as hard as he could and finished on a fantastic 27 place !
He really loved this hard race and would recommend it to every body.At the finish he got his medal from the mother  of Artoer Aghajanyan. Artoer Aghajanyan died during the  Antwerp Iron man race last summer  and this Spartacus race was in memorial for him.See spartacus website for complete results and pictures : Spartacus race