Climbing New Zealand

At our annual AGM in May 2024, Richard Waldin stepped down as President of CNZ and gave his final President’s Report.

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At the recent General Assembly, the IFSC made some changes to age categories and the minimum age to compete at World Cups. As you are aware, previously athletes had to be at least 16 (Youth A) to be able to compete. It has now been announced that athletes will have to be at least 17. That means our categories will likely change in the coming season to accommodate and feed into the next IFSC season in 2025. 

Youth A is currently U18 will be U19

Youth B is currently U16 and will be U17

Youth C is currently U14 and will be U15

Youth D is currently U12 and will be U13

Juniors: It is currently our understanding that the Junior category will not exist anymore.

Therefore if your Child is in their first year of Youth A, they will likely have another 2 in Youth A. If your child is in their second year of Youth A, they are likely going to have another year in Youth A.

The committee is currently working through this and will confirm this over the next few month. As an organisation we support this change as it is in line with international research into sports. To read more about this, Sport NZ has some great resources with the ‘Balance is better‘ approach.

Notified 9pm, Tuesday the 27th February 2024.

Following the La Sportiva Youth Masters and Paraclimbing Championships at Extreme Edge, the following athletes have been selected into the Youth Development Squad for 2023 / 2024.

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.

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 2023/24 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 2024.

Congratulations to those selected.

Richard Waldin
President
Climbing New Zealand

Provisional team notified 9pm, Tuesday the 27th of February 2024.

The following athletes have been selected to compete in Lead at the Australian Youth Nationals in 2024.

This is the provisional team selections, they are subject to appeal and subject to being ratified by the CNZ Committee.

Details for the event are found 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.

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.

Athletes are ranked, those in black are selected (noting we are limited to 2 places per category), those in orange are reserve selections, that can be awarded a place if those above them decline the opportunity.

Selections and Reserves