Speed Squad sets records in Korea Rachel starts her build up to the IFSC World Para-climbing Championships Youth Team head to Australian Youth Championships
Speed Records in Seoul
Epic effort from our four speed climbers taking the silver fern to Seoul, Korea, 28th to 30th of April in the first Speed Climbing World Cup of the year.
And a shout out to Sarah and Julian for setting New Zealand records! Julian also set an Oceania record.
Congrats to Sarah Tetzlaff with a time of 9.564 seconds! And to Julian David with a time of 6.43!
Rachel competes at IFSC Para-climbing World Cup
Rachel starts her build up to the IFSC World Para-climbing Championships with the first IFSC Para-climbing World Cup in Salt Lake City 16th and 17th of May. Follow Rachel’s progress on the IFSC website.
Youth Team head to Australian Youth Championships
The 2023 Youth Championships will be held from 18th to 21st May in Sydney. The venues will be Nomad for boulder (18th and 19th) and Sydney Indoor Climbing Gym Villawood for lead (20th and 21st May ).
We have a team of 20 athletes heading to Sydney this week at compete in the Australian Youth National Championships, best of luck to all the team.
William McKnight, Meredith Butcher, Lucy Sinclair, Sophia Cook, Finlay Cate, Nathan Clapperton, Spencer Menzies, Laura Townshend, Grace Hansen, Dixie Whiting, Luka Sugimoto-Faulkner, Jasmine Arnold-Clark, Robert Rider, Fletcher McGrath, Tristan Jayasuriya, Fia Warburton, Manaia Johnston, Charlotte Chinn, Ayla Radley, Yume Fookes.
Following the La Sportiva Lead and Para-climbing Championships at the YMCA Adventure Centre, Christchurch on the 4th and 5th of March the following listed athletes have been selected into the Youth and Open Development Squads for 2022 / 2023 for Lead.
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 toselection@climbing.nz.
Reminder of the criteria for selections:
Athletes need to be eligible for selection, which means being a member of a Climbing New Zealand Affiliated Club and being eligible to hold a New Zealand passport.
Automatic selection of the top 40% of the eligible athletes invited to be a member of the 2022/23 NZ Youth Development Squad. Discretionary selections can also be made, refer to the policy for details.
Automatic selection of the top 25% of the eligible athletes invited to be a member of the 2022/23 NZ Open Development Squad. Discretionary selections can also be made, refer to the policy for details.
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.
Being selected into the Development Squad makes the athlete eligible to seek New Zealand Team selection in 2023.
Open Development Squad
Open Female
Rebecca Hounsell
Kiri Shibahara
Mischa Boorman (discretionary)
Phoebe Kenderdine (discretionary)
Open Male
George Sanders
Jake Townshend
Tom Waldin
Henry Booker
Spencer Menzies
Sefton Priestley
Para-climbing AL2
Rachel Maia
Youth Development Squad
Junior Female:
Kiri Shibahara
Emily Makinson
Junior Male:
Oskar Wolff
William McKnight
Flynn Chisholm
Henry Booker (discretionary)
Antony Death (discretionary)
Youth A Female
Rebecca Hounsell
Sophia Cook
Meredith Butcher
Laura Townshend
Mischa Boorman
Hannah McCall
Lucy Sinclair (discretionary)
Azaria Briscoe (discretionary)
Kayla Muirson (discretionary)
Youth A Male:
Mac Duggan
Finlay Cate
Nathan Clapperton
Spencer Menzies
Nat Warburton
Samuel McKnight
Grayson Meaclem
Fynn Marno-Simpson
Barney Gould – Youth World Championships results (top 40)
Harrison Larkin – Youth World Championships results (top 40)
Climbing New Zealand is please to announce the following athletes who achieved qualification times at the recent La Sportiva National Speed Climbing Championships at Blake Park, Mount Maunganui and are therefore included into the National Development Squads for Speed.
Open Female: Sarah Tetzlaff, Jorja Rangi, Abby Gebert, Mischa Boorman, Meredith Butcher Open Male: Julian David, Flynn Chisholm, Antony Death, Ned Johnston Junior Female: Abby Gebert Junior Male: Julian David, Flynn Chisholm, Antony Death, Ned Johnston Youth A Female: Mischa Boorman, Meredith Butcher Youth A Male: Kieran Death
Congratulations to these athletes.
Results
La Sportiva Speed National Championships – Results
Mount Maunganui brought out the sunshine, BOPSCA organised the event and the athletes put on a show. Amazing results, with new National records set in 9 categories, and plenty of personal best times on top of that. Thanks to our sponsors La Sportiva, RAB, The North Face and Black Diamond.
Congratulations to all our champions for 2022 2023:
Open Female: Sarah Tetzlaff – new national record 10.11 Open Male: Julian David – new national record 6.58 Junior Female: Abby Gebert – new national record 10.54 Junior Male: Julian David – new national record 6.58 Youth A Female: Mischa Boorman – new national record 11.00 Youth A Male: Isaac Rose Youth B Female: Caitlyn Fortescue Youth B Male: Thomas Sorenson (event winner William Morton, New Caledonia) Youth C Female: Mila Piatek – new national record 8.94 Youth C Male: Rio Piatek Youth D Female: Yume Fookes – new national record 11.50 Youth D Male: Stig Zhou – new national record 11.02 Masters Male: Luke Stock – new national record 12.04 Master Female: Cadine Rangi
Review all the current national records please refer to this web page:
Lead event registration is open plus discretionary selection process
National Speed Championship – Results New PIKI system is live Congratulations to Rob and Rachel What is ahead in 2023
La Sportiva Lead and Para-climbing registration is open
Registrations are now open for the La Sportiva National Lead and Para-climbing Championships is now open . Event is held on the 4th and 5th of March 2023 in Christchurch.
La Sportiva Speed National Championships – Results
Mount Maunganui brought out the sunshine, BOPSCA organised the event and the athletes put on a show. Amazing results, with new National records set in 9 categories, and plenty of personal best times on top of that. Thanks to our sponsors La Sportiva, RAB, The North Face and Black Diamond.
Congratulations to all our champions for 2022 2023:
Open Female: Sarah Tetzlaff – new national record 10.11 Open Male: Julian David – new national record 6.58 Junior Female: Abby Gebert – new national record 10.54 Junior Male: Julian David – new national record 6.58 Youth A Female: Mischa Boorman – new national record 11.00 Youth A Male: Isaac Rose Youth B Female: Caitlyn Fortescue Youth B Male: Thomas Sorenson (event winner William Morton, New Caledonia) Youth C Female: Mila Piatek – new national record 8.94 Youth C Male: Rio Piatek Youth D Female: Yume Fookes – new national record 11.50 Youth D Male: Stig Zhou – new national record 11.02
PIKI Results System Upgrade
We have been very fortunate to have had the support of Lisia and Geoff who wrote the PIKI system for Climbing New Zealand a number of years ago. As is often the case time catches up with any technology and the existing system was destined for end of life year. We did a search for a system to replace PIKI and when we came up short, Lisia and Geoff step in to re-write it for us to allow the system to be sustained going forward. A huge thank you for their support.
To access Climbing New Zealand Results, link to this site:
Congratulations to Rob Moore, Climbing New Zealand Speed Programme Director and Coach, who has been awarded with a High Performance Sport New Zealand, Prime Minister’s scholarship for coaching. This is a two year scholarship to support his coaching of our High Performance speed team.
We also congratulate Rachel Maia for stellar year in 2022, making 3 World Cup finals including a silver medal at the Salt Lake City World Cup event back in June 2022, a first for New Zealand Climbing. Rachel was nominated by Climbing New Zealand for a Halberg Award, and while Rachel did not make the finals (always a tough ask in an Olympic and Commonwealth Games year) we are all very proud of her and having had her nominated.
What is ahead in 2023, International Competitions: Australian Youth Nationals – May or June TBC IFSC World Championships, Bern Switzerland (Open Athletes), early August IFSC World Cups (Opens and Para-climbing) – throughout the year. IFSC World Youth Championships, South Korea, late August IFSC Oceania Olympic Qualification Event – November 23-25, venue TBC. (Open Athletes) Speed and Boulder-Lead Combined.
According to the CNZ Selection Policy an athlete wishing to be considered for New Zealand Team selection in 2023, but unable to compete, can apply to be considered for discretionary selection under exceptional circumstances.
The selection policy sets out examples for reasons where exceptional circumstances will be considered.
In all cases athletes wishing to be considered for selection (initially to the development squad) under exceptional circumstances still need to apply to CNZ to be included in the selection process.
You need to make your application to Selection@climbing.nz as soon as possible with a cut off date of Monday the 6th of March 2023.
Please state:
Athlete Name:
Athlete DOB:
Event e.g Lead and Para-climbing Championships:
Send all related information on recent and previous performances, all current or recent climbing activities, any injury, illness and recovery information, climbing goals and anything related that may assist the selectors.
Note: Attendance and performance at prior recent CNZ National Championship events will be expected.
How does selection work when dealing with exceptional circumstances cases?
According to the selection policy there are a range of approaches that the selectors can take to rank athletes who missed a selection event alongside others. The aim is to ensure the process is as fair as possible for all athletes.
According to the selection policy:
Appendix 2
Effect of exemption
If the CNZ Committee has granted an application for Exceptional Circumstances, the Selection Committee may adjust the points to be awarded to the athlete using one or more of the following:
If the athlete has missed a National Championship, award the athlete points equal to:
o Their placing at the previous National Championships they competed in, in the same gender, Age Category and Discipline, or
o The points they were awarded at the Selection Camp in that discipline, or
o The average of the points awarded to other athletes under Appendix 1 in respect of the National Championship in the same gender, Age Category and Discipline
Have not done Speed Climbing before and would like to give it a go, come along on the day, watch New Zealand’s very best and perhaps even join the “novice – give it a go category” that we will be running.
Following the La Sportiva Youth and Masters Bouldering Championships at Uprising, Christchurch on the 3rd and 4th of December the following athletes have been selected into the Youth Development Squad for 2022 / 2023.
Junior Female:
Bella Domaneschi Abby Gebert
Junior Male:
Oskar Wolff Fin Newton-Howes Julian David Henry Booker
Luka Sugimoto-Faulkner Will Browne Robert Rider AJ Magness Jamie Birchler Cooper Gibson Thomas Sorensen Teo Besier (discretionary) Conrad Bolger (discretionary)
Youth C Female:
Fia Warburton Manaia Johnston Evie Cook
Youth C Male:
Tristan Jayasuriya Fletcher McGrath Samba Goyal Leon Cotton Xavier Wasek-Webb
Youth D Female:
Ayla Radley Anna Evans Yume Fookes
Youth D Male:
Tobin Priestley Huxley Bolger
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 toselection@climbing.nz.
Reminder of the criteria for selections:
Athletes need to be eligible for selection, which means being a member of a Climbing New Zealand Affiliated Club and being eligible to hold a New Zealand passport.
Automatic selection of the top 40% of the eligible athletes invited to be a member of the 2022/23 NZ Youth Development Squad. Discretionary selections can also be made, refer to the policy for details.
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.
Being selected into the Development Squad makes the athlete eligible to seek New Zealand Team selection in 2023.
According to the CNZ Selection Policy an athlete wishing to be considered for New Zealand Team selection in 2023, but unable to compete, can apply to be considered for discretionary selection under exceptional circumstances.
The selection policy sets out examples for reasons where exceptional circumstances will be considered.
In all cases athletes wishing to be considered for selection (initially to the development squad) under exceptional circumstances still need to apply to CNZ to be included in the selection process.
You need to make your application to Selection@climbing.nz as soon as possible with a cut off date of Monday the 5th of December 2022.
Please state:
Athlete Name:
Athlete DOB:
Event e.g Youth and Masters Bouldering:
Send all related information on recent and previous performances, all current or recent climbing activities, any injury, illness and recovery information, climbing goals and anything related that may assist the selectors.
Note: Attendance and performance at prior recent CNZ National Championship events will be expected.
How does selection work when dealing with exceptional circumstances cases?
According to the selection policy there are a range of approaches that the selectors can take to rank athletes who missed a selection event alongside others. The aim is to ensure the process is as fair as possible for all athletes.
According to the selection policy:
Appendix 2
Effect of exemption
If the CNZ Committee has granted an application for Exceptional Circumstances, the Selection Committee may adjust the points to be awarded to the athlete using one or more of the following:
If the athlete has missed a National Championship, award the athlete points equal to:
o Their placing at the previous National Championships they competed in, in the same gender, Age Category and Discipline, or
o The points they were awarded at the Selection Camp in that discipline, or
o The average of the points awarded to other athletes under Appendix 1 in respect of the National Championship in the same gender, Age Category and Discipline
3rd October: Finalised list post appeals, Jake Townsend added to the squad on appeal.
The following athletes have been selected into the Open Development Squad for 2023 for Bouldering:
Amanda Speed Bella Domaneschi Cirrus Tan Rebecca Hounsell (Discretionary)
Oskar Wolff Tom Waldin Sefton Priestley AJ Goldsmith Oliver Shanks Jake Townsend (Discretionary)
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 toselection@climbing.nz.
Reminder of the criteria for selections:
Automatic selection of the top 25% of the eligible athletes invited to be a member of the 2022/23 NZ Open Development Squad. Discretionary selections can also be made, refer to the policy for details.
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.
