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.
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 selection@climbing.nz.
Climbing New Zealand has established a selection policy for the Speed discipline. This policy applies to the IFSC official climbing wall so policy is limited to Open, Junior, Youth A and Youth B categories.
This qualification criteria applies to the 2021 Speed National Championships, scheduled for the 12th of March 2021.
For the sake of clarity there is no speed qualification for Youth C and Youth D as they climb on the Pacific K route and this has no international relevance at this stage.
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
This event will be held on February 13th 2021 at Northern Rocks, Glenfield, Auckland.
This is a qualifying event for New Zealand Development Squad and New Zealand Team selection. Refer to the Climbing New Zealand website for selection policy details.
This event is Open to all climbers who qualify to compete in Youth A or above, born in 2005 or earlier.
We will be running the National Speed Championships on Friday the 12th of March 2021, at Blake Park, Mount Maunganui.
The event will crown our National Champions, and is a chance for National Speed records to fall.
We are currently work on the criteria for National selection from this event, and we will publish and share the criteria once it has been confirmed.
Athletes who are considering Speed as part of any international competition in 2021 will be expected to attend this event. This includes competing in Speed at World Cups, Youth World Championships and Oceania events.
Youth B and above (including Masters) compete on the International standard speed wall (i.e. same as Olympics and World Cups)
Youth C and Youth D compete on the Pacific K route, this is the route recognised for our National records.
2020/21 Lead and Para-climbing Championships
The event will be held on the 13th and 14th of March 2021, at The Wall and Basement Cinema, Hinemoa Street, Rotorua.
This is a qualifying event for New Zealand Development Squad and New Zealand Team selection. Refer to the Climbing New Zealand website for selection policy details.
All categories are Lead events with exception of Youth D and Para-climbing which are top rope events.
Each category consists of 2 qualifying climbs, and a finals climb (for top 8 athletes)
This event occurs over two days, however each classification is completed in a single day.
Saturday:
Open, Youth B, Youth C, Youth D and Para-climbing have their qualifying and finals.
Youth A, Junior and Masters climbers can also participate in the Open event.
Sunday:
Youth A, Juniors and Masters have their qualifying and finals.
Oceania Olympic Qualification Event
This event is to proceed in Sydney, Australia from on the 19th and 20th of December 2020. With the current border guidelines and restrictions (government advice not to travel, cost and uncertainty of travel, quarantine limits, cost of quarantine, 2 weeks quarantine on return to New Zealand), most of our athletes have not been able to attend. We will have 2 athletes competing, Chase Gatland and Cirrus Tan. Chase lives in Sydney and Cirrus has made the commitment to travel from New Zealand to compete. We all wish them well. We will advise on live viewing options when we know more.
Video Highlights of the recent Youth and Masters Bouldering
In case you missed it here is a link to this video.
