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2021 2022
We invite companies and brands who wish to align themselves with the sport of climbing to consider a sponsorship relationship with Climbing New Zealand and sponsor our National Championship season.
Please refer to our sponsorship page here.
Climbing New Zealand Youth Team Positions
We are seeking expressions of interest for the following roles to support the 2022 New Zealand Youth Team:
Youth Team Assistant Coach
Youth Team Physiotherapist
Youth Team Manager
Deadline for submissions 8th of August 2021. Email to
The background and position descriptions are available here:
Olympic Games Debut
The countdown is on, only a couple of weeks to go before Climbing debuts at the Olympics. While we have no New Zealand athlete competing this time around, we will all be watching the event with intense interest and follow the fortunes of our Oceania representatives, Tom O’Halloran and Oceania MacKenzie.
Climbing runs from Tuesday the 3rd of August to Friday the 6th of August.
All the information, starting lists and schedule and times are available off the IFSC website here:
https://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php/olympic-games/tokyo-2020
If you are not sure about how the competition works for the Olympics, you can watch this video which explains it:
https://www.facebook.com/sportclimbing/videos/909684006383771
2021 National Secondary Schools Championships
This event is scheduled for 30th and 31st of August, organised by Climbing New Zealand and BOP Sport Climbing Association (BOPSCA) and hosted by Rocktopia, Mount Maunganui.
Ensure that you are getting yourselves organised with your registration and planning through your school.
Registrations close 14th of August and entries are limited to a total of 150 competitors.
Information file and registration form is available here:
https://www.sporty.co.nz/asset/downloadasset?id=f155aee5-59a0-4edd-b315-287340c2dd02
Climbing New Zealand Youth Team Positions
We are seeking expressions of interest for the following roles to support the 2022 New Zealand Youth Team:
Youth Team Assistant Coach
Youth Team Physiotherapist
Youth Team Manager
The background and position descriptions are available here:
Other upcoming events – 2021 2022 National Championship Season
Richard Waldin
President
Climbing New Zealand
We successfully ran our 2020 2021 National :Lead and Para-climbing Championships on the 13th and 14th of March.
Thanks to our event sponsors RAB and The North Face, the organisation from the Rotorua Climbing Club and our host gym The Wall and Basement Cinema.
Thanks to all those who supported the running of the event, especially our officials Sabrina, Shane and Dion, a great team of belayers, judges, timekeepers, isolation monitors and other supporters.
Thanks to our route setting team of Peter, Andy, Angela, Lossie, Api and Paul, and forerunners Luke and Jacob.
Great photos from Eddie Fowke of The Circuit Climbing and Conor Boyd of Conor Boyd Photography.
Congratulations to our Open championships for 2020/21 Henry Booker and Amanda Speed.
Our age grade Lead champions for 2020/21 were:
Youth D: Fia Warburton and Tristan Jayasuriya
Youth C: Jasmine Arnold-Clark and Will Browne
Youth B: Rebecca Hounsell and Fynn Marno-Simpson
Youth A: Willow Cook and Henry Booker
Junior: Tayla Manning and Jake Townshend
Masters: Sarah Hay and Kerry Crawford
Para-climbing: Byron Raubenheimer
Lead Climbing Highlights:Â https://youtu.be/E5hE5bwIodQ
It is my pleasure to finalise the development squad selections for 2021. Congratulations to all those athletes selected. Selected athletes will be communicated with separately to advise on further plans for 2021.
Please reference to the attached document for the full list of athletes.
Richard Waldin
President
Climbing New Zealand
Following the recent Speed Championships in Mount Maunganui and Lead and Para-climbing Championships in Rotorua, we are pleased to offer athletes places in the Climbing New Zealand Open Development Squad and Climbing New Zealand Youth Development Squad.
We have compiled the attached file which lists all development squad selections for the year. This includes the Youth and Open development squad selections from the earlier Bouldering Competitions.
Reminder of the criteria for Speed selection:
Speed qualification criteria – Top 5 placing in each category, plus a time less than or equal to (time in seconds):
Open Male 10.000 Open Female 13.000
Junior Male 11.000 Junior Female 14.000
Youth A Male 12.000 Youth A Female 15.000
Youth B Male 12.000 Youth B Female 15.000
Reminder of the criteria for Lead (and Bouldering) selections:
Automatic selection of the top 25% Open and top 40% of Youth of eligible athletes invited to be a member of the 2020/21 NZ Development Squad. Discretionary selections can also be made, refer to the policy for details.
The Speed and Lead selections are still interim and subject to appeal.
Climbing New Zealand selection processes are documented in our selection policy page on our website, please refer to this in the first instance if you have questions. The actual policy document is on our web page here.
Any athletes wishing to appeal the selection process, appeals need to be made within 2 working days of this post being notified to all climbers. Please ensure that you refer to the section 7 of the selection policy, and send any appeal to .
Congratulations to all those athletes selected.
Richard Waldin
President
Climbing New Zealand
Please check back to this post, periodically as we may need to adjust the timings over the course of the week-end.
Registrations and results will be posted to PIKI. https://piki.vimaly.com/#CNZ/event/8GjObq8m4UAOfY0FT/show
| Saturday | Youth D, Youth C, Para-climbing, Opens | |
| Time | Description | Categories |
| 07:30 | Facility Open | |
| 07:30 | Warm up Area Opens | YD, YC |
| 08:00 | Technical meeting | |
| 08:15 | Athletes Briefing | YD, YC |
| 08:30 | Qualification Round 1 | YD, YC |
| 09:50 | Qualification Round 2 | YD, YC |
| 10:15 | Warm up Area Opens | Opens, Para |
| 10:45 | Athletes Briefing | Opens, Para |
| 11:00 | Qualification Round 1 | Opens, Para |
| 12:45 | Qualification Round 2 | Opens, Para |
| 13:45 | Isolation opens | YD,YC |
| 14:15 | Isolation Closes | YD,YC |
| 14:30 | Viewing | YD,YC |
| 14:45 | Finals Start | YD,YC |
| 16:05 | Finals Finish | YD,YC |
| 16:25 | Prize Giving | YD,YC |
| 16:00 | Isolation Opens | Opens, Para |
| 16:30 | Isolation Closes | Opens, Para |
| 16:45 | Viewing | Opens, Para |
| 17:00 | Finals Start | Opens, Para |
| 17:40 | Finals Finish | Opens, Para |
| 18:05 | Prize Giving | Opens, Para |
| Sunday | Youth B, Youth A, Juniors, Masters | |
| Time | Description | Categories |
| 07:30 | Facility Open | |
| 07:30 | Warm up Area Opens | YB,YA,J,M |
| 08:00 | Technical meeting | |
| 08:15 | Athletes Briefing | YB,YA,J,M |
| 08:30 | Qualification Round 1 | YB,YA,J,M |
| 10:00 | Qualification Round 2 | YB,YA,J,M |
| 12:30 | Isolation opens | YB,YA,J,M |
| 13:00 | Isolation Closes | YB,YA,J,M |
| 13:15 | Observation 13:15 YB/M, 13:30 YA/J | YB,YA,J,M |
| 13:45 | Finals Start | YB,YA,J,M |
| 15:05 | Finals Finish | YB,YA,J,M |
| 15:25 | Prize Giving | YB,YA,J,M |
9.00am Technical meeting – Team Managers and Officials
9.00am Youth C and D Warm up
9.20am Athletes Briefing – YC/YD
9.30am Youth C and D Practice
10.00am Youth C and D Qualification
10.30am Youth C and D Final
11.30am Youth C and D Prize giving
Route reset for remaining categories
11:00am Youth B/A/Junior Warmup
11.50pm Athletes Briefing – Youth B/A/Junior
12.00pm Youth B/A/Junior Practice
1.00pm YB/YA/Junior Qualification
2.00pm YB/YA/Junior Final
2.00pm Opens/Masters Warm-up
2.50pm Athletes Briefing – Opens/Masters
3.00pm Opens/Masters Practice
3.30pm Opens/Masters Qualifications
4.00pm Opens Finals
5.00pm Prize Giving
We successfully ran our 2020 2021 National Open Bouldering Championships on the 13th of February.
Thanks to our event sponsors RAB and The North Face, funding support from Grassroots Central Trust and live stream partner Sky Sport Next.
Thanks to all those who supported the running of the event, our host gym Northern Rocks, the Auckland Sporting Climbing Club and our volunteer organisers and judges.
Thanks to our route setting team of Tyler, Wiz, James and Christina, our announcer Rob and live stream commentators Zane and Rimma.
Photos care of Eddie Fowke and The Circuit Climbing.
Congratulations to our championships for 2020/21 Tom Waldin and Amanda Speed.
Full results as always available on PIKI <here>
Following last week-end’s National Open Bouldering Championships the following athletes have been selected in the New Zealand Development Squad for bouldering for 2021.
Open Female:
Amanda Speed, Isabella Shanks, Abby Gebert and Sarah Tetzlaff
Open Male:
Tom Waldin, George Sanders, Henry Booker and Oskar Wolff
As part of the Climbing New Zealand Development Squad you can be considered for further selection onto a New Zealand Team for 2021.
Climbing New Zealand selection processes are documented in our selection policy, please refer to this in the first instance if you have questions. The document is on our web page.
Any athletes wishing to appeal the selection process, appeals need to be made within 2 working days of this post being notified to all climbers. Please ensure that you refer to the section 7 of the selection policy, and send any appeal to .
Congratulations to all those athletes selected.