Climbing New Zealand – National Selection Panel Member
We are seeking expressions of interest from suitability qualified individuals for a role on the National Selection Panel. The selection panel has 3 selectors and a CNZ appointed Convener who overseas the process on behave of Climbing New Zealand. The selection panel selects Youth, Open and Para teams and development squads, guided by the Selection Policy.
A passion for the sport of Sport Climbing, and a desire for it to thrive and grow in New Zealand;
Ability to work with young athletes and identify talent;
Ability to analyse results and apply quantitative and qualitative assessments as required;
Exceptional interpersonal communication skills;
Highly respected amongst the Climbing community;
Understanding of IFSC international regulations and rules of the Sport.
Expectations:
Able to attend National qualifying competitions and events as required.
Participate in selection meetings or online calls.
Support meeting key decision timelines.
This is an un-paid volunteer role. Appointment is for one year to appoint New Zealand Teams and Squads for 2022.
Please submit expressions of interest with background and qualifications to  by the 17th of October 2021, or contact Richard Waldin on 0274972677 for more information.
Climbing New Zealand is delighted to announce La Sportiva as our National Championship series title sponsor for the next 3 years.
La Sportiva is an iconic climbing brand and it is fantastic to have their support and partnership as we look to the future and the growth in the Sport. Thanks to Matt Parrett and the Mountain Adventure team for working with us to make this reality.
A few words from our new sponsor:
La Sportiva and Mountain Adventure are super excited to be the naming sponsor for the next 3 years of the national Climbing Championship Series.
La Sportiva is a much loved shoe for climbers across NZ and we stoked to re- invest back into the climbing community with Climbing NZ.
Thanks for the opportunity.
Team Mountain Adventure
As part of the sponsorship deal our National Championship series will be called The La Sportiva National Climbing Championship series. The series covers our 4 championship events for Open Bouldering, Youth and Masters Bouldering, Speed Climbing and Lead and Para-climbing Championships. Refer to our event calendar page for more details. https://www.climbing.nz/competitions/calendar/
There is a lot of important information in this post, please ensure you make yourself and your parent or athlete familiar with it.
Covid-19 Impacts.
We are watching the government announcements closely to help guide decisions relating to our upcoming events.
It has been sad to see the cancellation of all the secondary schools events next week, as well as the AIMS games, both for the second year. These events are great opportunities for climbers across all ages to get an introduction to competitive climbing. The secondary schools event was full with 150 climbers registered.
At this point we are still planning to run the Open Bouldering Championships as scheduled on the 25th of September, we will make a further decision on Monday the 6th of September. We are also considering postponement date options and will be canvasing athletes for their thoughts.
Reminder about selection policy.
For athletes who are unable to attend NZ selection qualification events for any reason and wish to be considered for selection into the NZ Team in 2022, need to submit an application for discretionary selection. All requests must be in writing to .
For athletes to be eligible for selection to any development squad or New Zealand Team selection must be a member of a Climbing New Zealand member club.
Refer to our selection policy page for all up to date information. SELECTION POLICY.
Upcoming Events
Please refer to the event pages for the upcoming bouldering events.
Open Bouldering. Note that the timetable runs for around 10am until 9pm, with an early evening finals round.
Lead and Para-climbing Championships. Confirmed for the 26th and 27th of February 2022 at Extreme Edge, Panmure.
Trophies
Reminder about trophy engraving from last season (“20/21” being the year label) and please ensure you are able to return the trophies ahead of at the next season events. Please let your local club or Climbing New Zealand know if there are any issues. Also for those who won their category in the 20/21 season, did you receive the trophy for your grade ok? we had a couple of trophies missing at the events.
International events in 2022
While Climbing New Zealand has made no specific commitment to send athletes to international events in 2022, there are a range of exciting possibilities.
For open climbers
Oceania Event planned for New Caledonia in 2022 – probably room for up to 6-8 athletes per category.
World Cup events, limited to number set by IFSC. There may be a New Caledonian World Cup in event 2022 also.
Australian Open event – limited places
For Youth B, Youth A and Juniors
Oceania Event planned for New Caledonia in 2022 – probably room for up to 6-8 athletes per category.
Youth World Championships, USA, Limited places, 2-3 per category.
Australian Youth events. Limited places
For Youth C and Youth D
Australian and New Caledonia events are possible, with some restricted numbers.
For Para-climbers
World Cup events
Age Categorises for 2021/22 season
CNZ Age Categories for CNZ events (excluding schools events) between 1st of September 2021 and 30th April 2022 (2021/2022 season):
Masters – born during 1987 or earlier Opens – born during 2006 or earlier (and must be at least 15 on the date of the event, applicable to the Open Bouldering event only) Juniors – born during 2003/2004 Youth A – born during 2005/2006 Youth B – born during 2007/2008 Youth C – born during 2009/2010 Youth D – born during 2011 (or later)
Sponsors
We are please to welcome back our sponsors from last year Rab and The North Face. We have two new sponsors to announce so look out for an announcement after the 1st of September.
Sport Climbing at the Olympics commences tomorrow eventing with the mens qualifications from 7.45pm. Women Quals are on Wednesday same time, with Mens finals from 8.25pm Thursday and Womens finals on Friday same time.
Looks like all the events and disciplines are on SkyTV Tokyo channels live with climbing on different channels each night, with some channel changes between disciplines. Check out skytv for the details here. https://tvguide.sky.co.nz/
If you don’t already have access to SkySport here is some guidance as posted on our Facebook page.
To make it even easier we’ve put the link for the once off Olympic Sky Sports pass in our bio (insta) and website: https://www.skysportnow.co.nz/ it’ll cost you not much more than a bouldering session at your favourite local and you can invite all your friends and stream it off one device for all. Did I hear someone say Home Wall Olympic Streaming Challenge Night? Time to smash out some PB’s while watching history in the making!!
Not an add for Sky… But how good to be able to cheer on our Oceania representatives @tom_ohalloran and @oceana_climbing.
Once you have the Sky Olympic pass all you’ll need is the Sky Olympic Video Player App which you can log into with your Olympic Sports pass and “favourite†the climbing and any other sports. You won’t miss a beat (We’ve tested this out to be sure ).
Tom and Oceana we are right behind you! So proud! All your mahi coming to fruition. @climbingnz is here to cheer you on.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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:
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
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.
But how good to be able to cheer on our Oceania representatives @tom_ohalloran and @oceana_climbing.
