The Selection Criteria for the NZ Team has been updated for this year and can be found under the NZTeam tab (“Selection Criteria NZ Team 2018/19”).

There is one change to the criteria from last year’s policy:

For Lead climbing selection eligibility: athletes must attend a minimum of ONE Climbing NZ Lead competition in 2018.

At the 2018 CNZ AGM, of 17th March, the following officers were appointed to the management committee of CNZ:

President – David Sanders

Vice President – Sarah Hay

Secretary – Sabrina Street

Treasurer – TBC

Athlete Rep – Sam Munday

Ordinary Officers – Zane Bray (AKL), Rob Moore (BOP), Roger Weldon (WKT), Richard Booker (ROT), Peter Lofthouse (TKI), Mick Domaneschi (WGN), Lee Burbery (CAN), John Scwharz (WAN)

Thanks to all who attended the meeting.

I am pleased to announce that the following athletes have been selected to represent NZ at the 2018 World Youth Champs to be held in August in Moscow (dates and venue provisional – pending IFSC confirmation) :

Abby Gebert (BOP) – Youth B Female – Lead

Alia Robinson (WGN) – Youth B Female – Bouldering

Ariana van Lith (TKI) – Youth A Female – Lead

Henry Booker (ROT) – Youth B Male – Bouldering

Josh King (WGN) – Youth A Male – Lead

Kim Forde (CAN) – Youth A Female – Lead

Lucy Whitehead (WKT) – Junior Female – Lead and Bouldering

Luke Gardner (ROT) – Youth B Male – Lead and Bouldering

Matthew Jones (TKI) – Youth A Male – Bouldering

Oliver Shanks (WKT) – Youth B Male – Bouldering

Oliver Soar (WKT)  – Junior Male – Bouldering

Sam Munday (BOP) – Junior Male – Bouldering

Sarah Tetzlaff (BOP) – Junior Female – Lead and Bouldering

Tom Waldin (ROT) – Junior Male – Lead and Bouldering

Zeta Hittmann (WKT) – Youth A Female – Bouldering

Congratulations to all!

Only 10 days to go until the Wellington Regional Boulder and Lead comp at Hangdog, Lower Hutt

copy the link to register: https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2018/wellington-regional-climbing-competition-2018/wellington

2018 Dates have been posted and can be found on the Competitions tab. Please note that the Climbing NZ Nationals for 2018 will be titled The National Championship Series and will consist of a Bouldering Series of 3 events and a Lead Series of 2 events. Overall Team Cup for 2018 will be awarded to the team with the most number of points from all 5 events. Overall Individual Bouldering and Lead Champions and Placings will be determined by summing results from all events attended. In the event of a draw the Lead and Boulder Champions will be determined by giving greater weight to the competition that had the greatest number of entrants for the category in question.

We are delighted to announce today that our application to establish a working relationship with Sport New Zealand has been conditionally approved – subject to amendments to the CNZ constitution re Drug Free Sport. Looking forward to exciting times ahead as Sport Climbing develops in Aotearoa.

Congratulations to the following Senior athlete selected for NZ representation in 2018:

Sarah Hay, Sian Moffitt, Alicia Chan, Erica Gatland, Maria Martinus, George Sanders, Zane Bray, Josh Evans and Isaac Buckley.

See NZ Team tab for details

Congratulations to all Youth Category athletes selected to represent NZ in 2018!

Please go to NZ Team tab to view selection

The New Zealand Olympic Committee today announced that Sarah Tetzlaff has been selected for the New Zealand Youth Olympic Games Team for Buenos Aires 2018 http://www.olympic.org.nz/news/first-athlete-selected-into-youth-commonwealth-games-team/   The announcement was made by NZOC CEO Kereyn Smith at HangDog Indoor Climbing Centre Lower Hutt. Congratulations Sarah! See images courtesy of Elias Rodriguez http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/T5q2Sr7IgRw/New+Zealand+Youth+Olympic+Games+Selection

18th October 2017

 

 

Wellington Climber qualifies for Youth Olympic Games

Sarah Tetzlaff from Wellington is the first ever New Zealand climber to qualify for the Youth Olympic Games.  She secured her qualification by placing first in the Combined under 18 climbing competition at the Oceania Climbing Championships in Noumea, New Caledonia at the weekend.    She saw off competition from Australian and New Caledonian climbers to place first in speed climbing, second in lead climbing and fifth in bouldering giving her the overall highest placing in the combined disciplines.

The Youth Olympics will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2018.  Climbing will feature for the first time in the full Olympics in Tokyo in 2020.

The New Zealand team took home a haul of seven gold medals, two silver and seven bronze medals – the country’s best result in an Oceania competition in 20 years.  Other gold medals in individual disciplines went to Lucy Whitehead (age 18) from National Park for under 20 speed climbing and bouldering, Oliver Soar (age 18) from Hamilton for under 20 bouldering and George Sanders (age 20) from Wellington for open male lead climbing.  Tetzlaff also took the gold medals in the individual disciplines of speed and bouldering for under 18s, giving her a total of three gold medals.

The three disciplines of competitive sport climbing are: lead climbing where climbers aim to get to the top of an increasingly difficult high route using a rope for safety; bouldering where climbers tackle low level technical problems without ropes; and speed climbing where the climbers race each other on a set 15 metre high route.

ENDS

For more information and photos contact:

David Sanders, President, Climbing New Zealand Ph: 027 373 7336    www.climbing.nz