Climbing New Zealand

Accessible and fun for everyone | Thanks Rab!

Rab has, again, signed up to sponsor our CNZ climbing series for 2024/25. While attending Nationals is, an amazing opportunity to climb some of the best competition style climbs in the country, Rab is focussed on keeping the sport fun and accessible for everyone. Rab, by supporting CNZ, is ensuring that we can keep running our climbing series, year after year, giving an opportunity for all ages of climbers from as young as 6. The younger athletes are definitely focussing on fun and having an incredible experience ‘on the big stage’ of a national competition. 

Felia, Event Manager at CNZ, adds: “We wouldn’t be able to run these competitions without Rab. From their willingness to provide prizes that athletes are able to take home, through to the financial support they provide to ensure we can get the best setters and venues. It just wouldn’t be possible without them.”

Thanks Again Rab team! 

Registrations for this year’s La Sportiva Open Boulder Championships are OPEN

Details:

Provisional Timetable for the day (note: this may change)

Categories:

Open A Female & Male

Over the course of the day our athletes will battle it out over 5 blocs in qualifiers. Finals will be battled out over 4 blocs in the afternoon. This competition will crown our Open A Boulder Champions for the 2024/25 season!

Open B and Youth B Female & Male

Boulder jam and spend the day solving some of the hardest boulders you have ever attempted. Without the pressure and the time limits of Open Champs, take as many attempts on each bloc over a 2 hour period and see how many of the blocs you can master!

Climbing NZ is delighted to announce Black Diamond as Gold Sponsor for the 2024/25 season. 

This season Black Diamond is our official Volunteer Sponsor. Felia Faber, our Event and Development Manager, says: “From the moment I stepped into this role, 11 months ago, I knew it was time to find a way to acknowledge and thank our volunteers.” She adds: “When our children started climbing I could see that CNZ can only run their great events because so many parents and climbing supporters give up their time to volunteer at these events”.

She has worked to ensure volunteer engagement increases and this year is the first full season that CNZ volunteers have an official sponsor. 

“The moment I approached Black Diamond with the idea of becoming our volunteer sponsor, they were fully on board. It has been amazing to work with them to create some new visuals and materials as well as put together a great volunteer appreciation programme for the season’.

Ewan McCaffery, Black Diamond NZ Brand Manager, couldn’t be more proud to put the Black Diamond name on this initiative and comments: “We all know that volunteering is often a thankless task. Yet without the hundreds of hours these people donate, many events and sports simply would not be able to happen. Black Diamond would like to play a part in thanking the volunteers for their time and effort”

The team that recently headed to Australia for the Australian Youth Nationals, has come home with fantastic results and many amazing experiences!

Boulder:

Youth A

Males

Zhen Ng	4th
Spencer Menzies	10th

Females

Grace Hansen	5th
Mischa Boorman	9th

Youth B

Males

Fletcher McGrath	4th
Teo Besier	23rd

Females

Katie Chinn	7th
Alisa Schenk	11th

Youth C

Males

Tristan Jayasuriya	10th
Xavier Wasek-Webb	12th

Youth D

Males

Hamish Mclaughlin	17th
Xavier Faber	28th

Lead Nationals

Junior

Males

Nathan Clapperton

7th

Youth A

Males

Finlay Cate	1st
Spencer Menzies	2nd

Females

Grace Hansen	5th
Mischa Boorman	7th

Youth B

Males

Fletcher McGrath	1st
Toby Gower-Johnston	25th

Females

Katie Chinn	5th
Xanthe Saunders	9th

Youth C

Males

Xavier Wasek-Webb	2nd
Tristan Jayasuriya	3rd

Youth D

Males

Xavier Faber	11th
Hamish McLaughlin	24th

Females

Pippa Gower-Johnston

7th

Congratulations to all those that competed and thanks to all the parents and caregivers that enabled our young people to go over the ditch and experience this competition!

Provisional team notified 12.00pm, Friday the 12th of April 2024.

The following athletes have been selected New Zealand Team for the 2024 Youth Championships.

This is the provisional team selections, they are subject to appeal.

Any athletes wishing to appeal the selection process, appeals need to be made within 3 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 .

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.

Please NOTE: CHANGES TO IFSC AGE CATEGORIES

Female Youth World Team (Provisional Team List)
Green selected – Orange reserve in ranking order

Congratulations to all selected competitors.

Provisional team notified 8.30am, Tuesday the 9th of April 2024.

The following athletes have been selected to the Open Lead Development Team 2024.

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

Any athletes wishing to appeal the selection process, appeals need to be made within 3 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 .

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.

Selections

Female

Congratulations to all the athletes selected.