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.
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 .
Congratulations to all those athletes selected.
Richard Waldin President Climbing New Zealand +64274972677
