Adam Ondra, the Czech climbing machine, has just crushed the opposition in the UK round of the World Cup bouldering to take a very convincing win. Top honour in the ladies competition, which was altogether much closer, went to Belgian Chloe Graftiaux. The Dyno competition went to (past) form with the silverwear being lifted by Skyler Weeks (with a new world record of 2.85m) and Lilly Fitzgibbons…

The best placed Brits were Mina Wujastyk (12^th) and Stewart Watson (13^th) with Gaz Parry coming a very creditable 14^th to edge the current World Champion Rusian, Alexey Rubtsov into 15^th. Current and three-times World Cup Champion, Austrian Kilian Fischhuber, didn’t make the final cut and placed 10^th. Ondra, with an undeniable momentum now on his side, must surely fancy his chances of lifting the men’s title as he going into the next round.

Ondra, of course created a storm of interest a couple of months back when he visited the UK and went home with a trophy bag of top routes that was full to busting. I managed to catch up with Ondra during a quite spell when he was relaxed by reading Revelations, Jerry Moffatt’s award-winning book. I asked Ondra if he was content with his weekend’s work and whether he was planning to chill-out for a few days – “I need to get home and step up the training for the next events” he said; adding with a cheeky smile “but tomorrow I go to Raven Tor to check-out some routes”. No rest there then!

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Men’s podium: 1^st Adam Ondra (Czech),2^nd Cedric Lachat (Swiss) and 3^rd Mykhaylo Shalagin (Ukraine) …