EYC Voirion France 9 June 2012

The youth Belgian Team is at EYC Lead climbing competition in Voiron France.
You can follow the competition on Live Streaming. http://www.eyc-voiron.com/
Qualification females  starts at 14 h and Finals at 19.15 Hr.
Update : Anak Verhoeven won  and Loïc Timmermans  was second due to the speed rule . Celine Cuypers made it to the finals and finished 10th. Maëlys Gillard just missed the finals with her 11th. Koen Baekeland finished 29 place.

Video Finals Female Youth Boulder competition Grindelwald

Here's the video of the female climbers .We did not stay for the men's finals so I have no  video of the men's finals.

Video Belgian Team B boulder Grindelwald Switserland

European Youth Boulder competition Grindelwald

The first of two European Boulder competitions in 2012  took place in Grindelwald Switzerland on 2-3 june 2012. Grindelwald is the place close to the famous Eiger North Face. Manolo participated together with Chloe Caulier,Dawn Claeijs,Maëlys  Gillard en Tim Goossens. We also had 2 team coaches Tijl Smitz and Jerome De Boeck. Carl and Thibaud Caulier (father of Chloe) were the two dedicated fans of the Belgian Boulder team. 


Compared to last year we saw more climbers participating at these European boulder competition.At least 145 climbers of a lot of different European countries, also Israel participated. It was a very well organized competition with cool boulder problems that are  different from the ones we are used to climb in Belgium and Netherlands. Alll had to climb 8 boulders in 1.5 hours with a maximum of 5 try's for each boulder.


Manolo had a good start with topping his first two boulders flash. The other boulder were too hard for him to top although he was sometimes very close.He only topped 2 boulders and had 7 bonus holds. He finished on 23 th place in Youth B male.


Chloe Caulier (Girls A)was now our only hope to have  a Belgian climber in the finals. She started with a lot of confidence but could only top 3 boulders and missed the finals as she finished on 7 the place. Only the first 6 of each category go to the finals.


For Tim Goossens it was his first European competition. He had a nervous start but tried hard and was able to top 2 boulders  and finished on 24th place (Boys A).


Dawn and Maëlys also new in the Eureopean boulder competition both in Category B girls finished on 21 and 20th place.


Also our Dutch friends Daan Groskamp, Teun Keusters, Tim Reuser and Tabitna Buma  climbed hard but didn't make it to the finals.


Update : Pictures from Thibaud Caulier on : Picturetown

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