Climbing New Zealand

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 president@climbing.nz

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

• 25th September 2021 – CNZ National Open Bouldering Championships 2021/22, Uprising Gym, Christchurch
• 30th / 31st October 2021 – CNZ Youth and Masters Bouldering Championship 2021/22, Basecamp Adventure Centre, Queenstown.

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: 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 selection@climbing.nz.

Congratulations to all those athletes selected.

Richard Waldin
President
Climbing New Zealand